Over 35,000 job vacancies for Omanis in 2021

Muscat: More than 35,000 job vacancies in the public and private sectors were announced by the Ministry of Labour between January and September this year.

In its third report on performance indicators, the Ministry of Labour said that it was able to provide 35,344 job opportunities in the public and private sectors in the Sultanate of Oman.

The report shows that 19,535 job opportunities were created in the units of the state’s administrative apparatus, of which 10,328 have started work while 9,207 others have joined but they are under various stages of induction under Ministries of Education, Health, Higher Education, Research and Innovation.

In the private sector, 8,562 Omanis were employed by replacing expatriates, out of a total of 28,081 new contracts registered in the private sector for Omanis between January and September 30. Among them 63 per cent were males and 36.3 per cent were females.

Regarding the number of expatriate workers in the private sector, the ministry’s report indicated that the Sultanate witnessed a decrease in the number of expatriate contracts in the current year by 7.5 per cent in all the governorates. The number of expatriate workers until the end of September 2020 had reached 14,49,406, while the number declined to 1,339,136 this year.

Meanwhile, the Ministry of Labour is also conducting a number of tests for job seekers having various academic qualifications at the University of Technology and Applied Sciences in Salalah for 37 vacant jobs. The jobs are in various departments and sections of the Dhofar Municipality.