Dubai: You’ve sent out dozens of application letters, walked into a number of companies to drop your CV and got called into interviews, but until now you haven’t got a single job offer.
What could you have possibly done wrong? Jobs may be hard to come by these days, but there’s a likelihood that candidates are also missing out on what employers are really looking for.
A job portal has recently polled more than 5,000 respondents, including employers in the UAE and other parts of the Middle East and North Africa (Mena), to find out why job seekers are struggling to land a job offer.
More than a third (34 per cent) of those polled between March 3 and March 22, 2016 said the main reason is that candidates “do not know what the employers are looking for”. In the UAE, more hiring experts (42 per cent) cited the same reason.
Another contributing factor is that schools in the region don’t actually teach students the skills they need to enter the job market, according to 22 per cent of the survey participants.
