coffindodger

Saudi minister calls for more jobs for citizens.
It’s impossible for the government to employ all young people, but jobs in governmental or private sectors should be occupied by citizens,' Saudi Interior Minister says.
Saudi Arabia's interior minister on Monday called on government ministries and private firms in the region to create more jobs for citizens.

"It’s impossible, whether in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia or the rest of the world, for the government to employ all young people, but jobs in governmental or private sectors should be occupied by citizens," Prince Nayef Bin Abdul Aziz, Saudi Interior Minister, said after meeting regional governors.

"Governmental agencies should coordinate to find jobs for these graduates. The private sector too must employ young people and this is what I have discussed with a number of officials from the chamber of commerce," Nayef, who is also Second Deputy Prime Minister, said.

He made the comments after some 200 Saudi university graduates staged a protest in the capital Riyadh at the weekend, demanding that the Gulf Arab state create jobs for them.
Despite its vast oil resources, Saudi Arabia struggles to create employment opportunities for its nationals, due to an outdated education system that focuses more on religion than on skills required to change its oil-based economy, which is already weighed down by a bloated public sector.

The Kingdom's unemployment hit 10.5 per cent last year, according to official data, and creating jobs for the native population of more than 18 million is one of the biggest challenges now facing the country's ageing leaders.

With a total population of 27.1 million, Saudi Arabia offers nationals social benefits, but these are less than those granted by other Gulf Arab oil-producing emirates such as Kuwait and Qatar, which have much smaller native populations.

Many Saudis are forced to work as taxi drivers, private security guards or in other low-paid jobs just to make ends meet

http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/saudi-...izens-1.675705

Hello.Kitty

what, like 99% of people in the world? Gosh, times must be tough.


Let them eat

coffindodger

Let them get off there rear and get working.
Everthing is on a silver plate for them.
Half of them dont want to do any thing!!!

Avarice

lol indeed

shakh your bootie

Meanwhile Boris rails against neo-Con plans to introduce a points system for non-EU migrant worker. Is it really so damn different?

There's small shortage of lazy-arse Brits, also, friends.

hnd

Nope, there's an enormous over-supply of lazy-arse Brits. Something like 4m who live in a household where nobody has ever had a job. Figure courtesy of both Daily Telegraph and Daily Wail but can be ar$ed to be find the articles.

Eid Mubarak everybody!

twisty100

True, but they are in a minority in the UK. I have yet to find a majority of self starting, forward thinking, creative, hard working, genuinely honest Emirati/Saudis/Gulf workers whom have created, invented, 'worked through the ranks' and progressively evolved the world in which we live.

Your point is rather short sighted.

Norm_uk

So we have potentially 1 or 2 million people who have never worked. Even allowing for the disabled and unfit I wonder why we have unskilled migrants in any number being allowed into the UK when we have loads of lazy beggers who should be made to work or have their benefits cut.

I'd be a massively popular PM hehe.

N.

co durham boy

No , the Daily Mail say we have an enormous over supply of lazy arse Brits as it fits in with the right wing bullshit agenda that they preach.Look at the figures and you can say that maybe 96% have always been in a working household.

It doesn't even compare with the Moronic self-preserving socially engineered society's here in the Gulf. Agreed there is a massive problem in the UK but it is pale in comparison to what these people have in this part of the world.

Hello.Kitty

... although strangely enough, it's the lazy ar$ed Brits and lazy ar$ed Gulf locals who are the first to complain about migrant workers nicking jobs that they themselves can't somehow bring themselves to do.

What both countries need is some real incentive... go find yourself a job or you'll be put to forced labour digging roads, perhaps.

Charismatic

Or just de-incentivise social welfare by having a system that rewards economic activity? Then just implement a system that will only social aid is distributed to people for the first year or so and then progressively drops off over the proceeding year. There are good, honest, hard working people who just need a chance to get back on their feet again.

It sounds like Saudi Arabia is training people in the wrong fields. If they need Accountants, Managers, Engineers and Scientists then that’s what they need to offer incentives to study.

That said it is a bit of a longer run problem as well with graduate employment in most developed countries as their focus has been on social issues rather than economic development. Two halves of the same coin in a way but being proactive in economic development usually helps alleviate the former. As many recruiters have been telling us for the last few (10?) years “Everyone wants experience, nobody is willing to take on the graduates” which is fine for now while it’s easy to recruit experienced people but it does leave a gap later if you want to grow your business .

flares

must be bob-a-job week here as the local kids are ringing the bell asking for money.

Unfortunately I've just weeded the garden myself and taken the car for a valet so I couldn't really help them.