The forum emphasizes how economic sectors play a part in identifying employment prospects in Oman.
Oman Horizon Bulletin
The National Employment Program and the Ministry of Labor have launched a symposium centered on the vital role that economic sectors play in promoting local added value and localizing job prospects.
Muscat – The event, held at the Oil and Gas Institute, aims to address key challenges and explore strategies to enhance Omani workforce participation.
H.E. Khalid Salim Al Ghamari, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Labour for Labour said that the forum comes within the efforts made by the Ministry to achieve the goals of economic integration between development sectors and enhance job opportunities for citizens in these sectors.
He affirmed that the “Tawteen” platform seeks to improve the work environment and develop national competencies to meet the needs of various sectors, stressing the importance of companies’ commitment to registering on the platform and using it as a basic means to ensure transparency and efficiency of employment processes.
The activities of the first day of the forum highlighted the most prominent issues and challenges facing the sector of localizing job opportunities and local added value, strategies to enhance the participation of the national workforce and reviewing the efforts made to encourage companies operating in this sector to benefit from the “Tawteen” platform.
The activities of the forum also included working sessions on the importance of employment governance committees in economic sectors, and their pivotal role in achieving coordination between the public and private sectors to ensure the requirements of the labour market.
The forum aims to enhance partnership between various economic sectors, and the importance of activating the “Tawteen” platform to regulate the labour market, by introducing companies to the platform’s features and registration mechanisms.
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