'Jahez' employs Saudi graduates

The Ministry of Labor has asserted that the performance of the National Observatory of the country’s workforce will depend on 12 fundamental criterions of works matrices, most notably figures on the current labor force and unemployment, employment, compensation, workplace conditions and market demand. It will also focus on the criteria of economic stagnation, productivity, prices, standard of living, and the welfare and education index.
Anonymous sources in the ministry told a local newspaper that the observatory will be based on the performance of its duties on the experiences of many developed countries such as Britain, US, New Zealand, Singapore, India, Malaysia and Korea, as well as ILO statistics. He further pointed out that efforts are underway in order to identify the needs of the Observatory’s relevant authorities, such as the Ministry of Labor, the Human Resources Development Fund and the Technical and Vocational Training Corporation.
The source revealed that the “Jahez” (ready-to-go) program, which the ministry will launch during the next few weeks to send scholarship students abroad, will include Saudi students who have enrolled in universities in the Kingdom, as well as those currently enrolled in universities outside the kingdom through the King Abdullah Scholarship. This is in addition to graduates from Saudi and foreign universities during the past two years who are still unemployed.
The source disclosed t he information to the Tawafoq program which is committed to hiring people with intellectual disabilities, speech, hearing and movement impairments.
He pointed out that the program is aimed at instigating the rehabilitation, training and employment of more than 1.4 million disabled Saudis, in addition to resolving the obstacles associated with various work systems and cultural behavior.
He pointed out that the Hafiz unemployment program includes 240,000 disabled and the rehabilitation plan database includes facts and figures on training, regulations, awareness and launch recruitment programs.