Most Attractive Jobs in UAE Right Now
- Recruitment for candidates with engineering, accounting and sales qualifications is highest in UAE, as well as a significant demand for customer and healthcare services staff and IT professionals
- In the last week of July 2017 alone, companies in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Ajman, Ras Al Khaimah and Umm Al Quwain posted an additional 2523 vacancies on listings sites
- The introduction of VAT in UAE is fueling recruitment for accountants, financial modellers and finance business partners across real estate and development, fast-moving consumer goods and logistics industries
- Hiring for civil, mechanical and electrical engineers; foremen, draftsmen and crane operators tend to dominate the lists of in-demand jobs in UAE, followed by sales executives and salespersons
- Job listings in the UAE declined by 47 per cent during the first three months of 2017, the highest in the Middle East
- According to Emirates NBD’s economy tracker, “employment remained broadly unchanged” in UAE in July 2017
- Recruitment specialists had predicted that hiring activity in UAE will pick up in 2017, following a significant decline in the last few years, owing partly to weak oil prices
- Between January and March 2017, jobs in UAE remained scarce, particularly in the banking and financial services, IT, telecommunications, oil and gas, production, manufacturing, automotive and ancillary sectors
- Businesses in UAE are eager to explore options that will support their growth in revenues and competitive advantage, and are turning to their finance departments to support them in finding these opportunities
