Etisalat participates in UAE Career Exhibition 2008

'We are pleased to participate in this exhibition again. Etisalat has been a pioneer for its Emiratization initiatives and has attracted local talent and trained them to occupy both technical and managerial positions'.

Al Sawaleh also added: 'Etisalat has been able to achieve an Emiratisation percentage that is considered one of the highest in the country. Today, UAE nationals hold more than 42% of the total number of positions within Etisalat representing more than 4000 employees, and nationals constitute over 60% at the senior management level'.

Etisalat also provides three different training courses with different specializations.

The first course is to attract bachelor's degree holders and provide them with fifteen month of training within the company.

This course will equip them with more specialized training, and they will be employed based on whether their specialization is managerial or technical.

The second course focuses on diploma graduates who are trained for one year in different departments of the company, and this course is also held over a shorter time for professionals that have newly joined Etisalat from other companies.

The third course is established for high school graduates or Higher Colleges of Technology graduates, who are trained on the technical aspects of working in the different sectors of the company.

UAE nationals also represent a big percentage of staff in the technical departments within Etisalat.

With the huge footprint that Etisalat has achieved in the country, it attracts the best from among UAE workforce.

Etisalat has contributed towards gearing up a generation of telecom specialists, who work today to support expansion and investment plans of the Corporation in sixteen countries across Africa and Asia.