Tanmia
launches new initiative to train Nationals for jobs
in accounts
Posted: 30 May 2004
40 Nationals begin 10-week programme that will provide
them with skills to enter the job market
The National Human Resources Development and Employment Authority
(Tanmia) has launched a new initiative to train UAE National graduates
for accounts positions in the job market. The move is aimed at meeting
the shortfall of accountants in the market.
Under the programme, 40 nationals have been enrolled to undergo
a ten-week accounts course running into a total of 200 hours, in
addition to 2 weeks of practical training. The aim of the initiative
is to train graduates to enter the job market as skilled assistant
accountants.
“The accounts training programme will coach the young students
in all aspects of accountancy and impart knowledge of electronic
as well as manual accounting,” said Ayesh Al Barguthi, Director,
Employment and Skills Development Center, Tanmia. “The course
will explore the practical side of accounts and cover government
accounting, cost accounting and data analysis through IT systems.
This will help arts students and others to join practical areas.
Those candidate are available for employment and can easily be interviewed
at the request of any employer”.
The new initiative forms part of Tanmia’s strategy to devise
short-term courses that will provide National job-seekers with skills
needed to make an entry into the job market. This also gives an
opportunity to National graduates to shift professions by adopting
a more scientific approach.
The importance on practical training makes the programme highly
relevant. Tanmia is confident that at the end of the ten-week period,
the graduates would be fully equipped to take up jobs in accounts,
without an academic degree or specialization.
Tanmia has recently stepped up its activities to boost the presence
of Nationals in the job market through a series of initiatives as
well as regulations that require firms in the trading sector employing
more than 50 people, to reserve a 2 per cent quota for Nationals.
All these moves are part of an overall plan to reduce the looming
problem of unemployment among UAE Nationals and thus correct the
imbalance in the job market.
About Tanmia
Tanmia, the National Human Resource Development & Employment
Authority in the UAE, was established by a Presidential decree in
November 1999, to address the imbalance in the labour market, due
to excessive dependence on expatriate workforce.
Tanmia is engaged in a coordinating role, between national job
seekers and employers in the private and government sectors, to
facilitate increased entry of nationals in the labour market.
The responsibilities that rest with the Authority are: to set up
the overall policy of the Authority and supervise its implementation,
conduct sustained operational and administrative labour market studies
and analysis, provide career counseling and guidance to the national
work force, follow-up and evaluate employment of nationals in public
and private sectors, support small investment enterprises through
the establishment of self-employment projects for national human
resources and develop programmes for training and qualifying nationals
seeking employment, in conformity with the labour market needs.
Posted by Richard Price,
Editor Pipeline Magazine
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