The majority of Emirati professionals prefer the government as employer, followed by military, defence and police services, oil, gas and petrochemicals and banking and finance, a report said.

The majority (55 per cent) of Emirati professionals prefer the government as an favoured employer, a report said, adding this is followed by military, defence and police services (35 per cent), oil, gas and petrochemicals (29 per cent), and (55 per cent) banking and finance (27 per cent).

The hospitality and tourism and retail industries are favoured by a smaller group of 7 per cent and 3 per cent respectively although bayt.com has seen an upswing in interest to work in these sectors as these sectors have matured and thrived locally to become a world class hub on their own, according to the “Top Industries in the Middle East and North Africa” Survey conducted by Bayt.com, a leading job site in the Middle East.

From an employer perspective, the latest Bayt.com Mena Job Index Survey (August 2014) revealed that 67 per cent of UAE employers are looking to hire in the next three months; and 74 per cent in a year’s time.

The top industries that UAE employers believe will attract and retain top talent in the country are construction and banking and finance, followed closely by oil, gas and petrochemicals. The UAE also still tops the list of the most attractive countries to live and work in the region, followed by Qatar and Saudi Arabia.

The UAE has always been a very active market from a job supply and jobseeker demand perspective registering some of the highest number of highly attractive job listings in the region across a diverse industry spectrum that includes blue chip multinationals as well as governmental institutions, regional conglomerates and large and small local enterprises.

According to the same survey, when it comes to hiring, UAE employers are looking for good communication skills in English and Arabic (60 per cent), team players (50 per cent), and candidates with good leadership skills (45 per cent).

As for experience in demand, the survey indicates that UAE employers are currently primarily searching for candidates with managerial experience (40 per cent), experience in sales and marketing (37 per cent), and experience in administration (30 per cent).

“Our mission at Bayt.com is to connect job seekers at all career levels to top employers in the UAE and the Mena region, from internships to C-suite. We offer our community a trilingual platform to help them find a job in the fastest, easiest and most effective way possible,” said Suhail Al-Masri, VP of Sales, Bayt.com.

“With over 40,000 employers searching through the CV database, and advertising more than 10,000 vacancies on Bayt.com daily, finding the most relevant job is now easier than ever. In line with this mission of empowering people with the tools and technologies to build their lifestyle of choice, we are constantly present via our social channels and at career fairs across the region to provide free CV help and career advice to job seekers at all career levels.

“Furthermore, the Bayt.com university roadshow around the UAE and across the region is a key pillar in our CSR program, supplementing our online conversations with actual real live conversations on the ground with university students, employers and academia,” he added.

“For the UAE in particular, Bayt.com has been assisting corporations in the UAE large and small, both local and international, to meet their nationalization targets for the better part of the last decade. Most of the region's top employers whom we liaise with on a daily basis are already actively mobilized to source, attract and retain top national talent across career levels and job roles and we are very proud to be instrumental in this process at every stage from sourcing to screening talent across all job roles and empowering private and public corporations with their own proprietary career channels to further ease the recruitment process,” Al-Masri continued.

“Across the GCC, Bayt.com's ever evolving online recruitment platform has facilitated the entire process of meeting nationalization objectives and targets pan-industrially by making it faster, easier and more efficient to source top national talent across career levels. We liaise very closely with each country's universities and top employers alike to ensure our recruitment platform readily accommodates local recruitment targets from the internship and fresh graduate stage through to mid-management and senior managerial level requirements.”

At present, Bayt.com has almost 160,000 registered Emirati job seekers –looking for a new job or better career prospects – and approximately 4,000  job vacancies in the UAE on any given day as well as a vast number of employers searching through job seeker profiles using the smart, intuitive ‘Bayt.com CV Search’ technology.

The Emirati talent pool on Bayt.com extends from entry level to C-Suite talent and senior executives across the entire spectrum of demographic, geographic and industry lines. About 56.9 per cent of Emirati professionals registered on Bayt.com today are females; 43.1 per cent are males, and the majority group holds a Bachelor’s degree or more. – TradeArabia News Service