scrubbedexpat141

It's a great opportunity if it's right for someone, just be ready for an environment at work that's very, very different to anything anywhere else.

thorshammer

Did you not do the attestation until you arrived in Riyadh?

Thomk1988

hi Chris, how did this position turn out can I ask what field you were employed in? Looking to get out there myself, electrical background.

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Ingk49

Hi can anyone tell me if there are teenagers with families working on Neom The Line. I have read lots of posts about people with young kids but no teenagers. Our daughter is 15. Also does anyone know if the school on site is built and takes secondary kids.

christmasoompa

It's not yet taking secondary age kids, believe it's planned to expand for them at some point, but we were told (also have a 15 yr old) that we'd be waiting a while.

Ingk49

Thanks for your reply that's interesting. May I ask are you out there already? What school does your child attend?

Evilbungle

Hi, Our daughter is 13 and has been accepted in the school. From my understanding (We are not there yet but I travel in a couple of weeks) the current UK Year 8 (12-13 Year olds) Equivalent is the oldest and they will up the age each year - i.e. Year 7 was the highest year last year and year 9 will be the highest next year. Obviously this is just from our conversations and like everything will likely be 100% changed by tomorrow!! When originally talking to the school they did say that if my daughter was over this age they would enroll her onto a distance learning curriculum until they knew when she could start in person.

christmasoompa

No, we turned it down. We have two teens so it's not feasible for us to move there.

PMCWS

Hi, are there any leads for project Management, Construction Management at Neom? Headhunters contacts?

christmasoompa

Just get yourself on LinkedIn and if you have skills they need, they'll find you on there. That's how the headhunters seem to be approaching people.

apospark

For the folks who have been there for over a year, have you actually received your on-target bonus and how onerous are targets (knowing that it probably differs by division)? Just received offer, but they didn't take into account my current employer's stock options (which I didn't expect them to do), but surprisingly didn't take into account my multi-year cash sign on bonuses. The offer, after uplift is basically the same base salary as my current salary, so I'll likely decline it; but they included the 30% bonus for total compensation calculations to make it look competitive.

peterpipper12

Has anyone taking the recruitment assessment test? what's that like?

PMCWS

Thanks

Wagabond777

Hey, Zero cool, just clarifying that these salaries are monthly not annual. i can't believe these are annual as even director level top end would be 100,000 SAR to 26kUSD

Wagabond777

Hi All,

It's an amazing forum so thanks to everyone for sharing their experiences.

I have been contacted through a recruiter and have the following questions:

1) given its the ME and they can decide to sack you anytime, do employment contracts have anything related to termination payouts? e.g. normal practice is a 2,3,4 month payment for termination in lieu of notice?
2) I have read companies do background checks. what are checks for - standard employment checks? as in company, designation, and employment dates (any of these checks with your current employer? coz that jeopardises your current employment)
3) once you hand them your payslip and they give you a ~25% hike - is that how it works, do they check with your current HR? - Has anyone had any issues e.g. NEOM reneging on salary offer e.g. do they do a physical check of the documents when you land in KSA and only then its confirmed?
4) NC1 and NC2 - Is one better than the other?
5) 30 days annual leave, does this include weekends? some companies in the middle east count weekends too - generally these are excluding your weekly off's but just want to confir,
6) healthcare: what is the standard if you are based out of Sharma?

Thanks,