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NQA Delivers A Workshop At UAEU To Highlight The Role Of Occupations And Careers Handbook











The National Qualifications Authority (NQA) delivered an interactive career opportunity workshop to a number of deans, dean assistants for career counseling, and students at the UAE University in Al Ain with the aim to raise awareness of “Abshir Initiative” and to provide a platform for highlighting the importance of the “Occupations and Careers Handbook for UAE Nationals”.

The workshop, followed with the consociate presentation, focused on the need to implement Abshir, the Initiative ordered by President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, to reinforce the presence of the UAE nationals in the labor market. It gave details of the purpose, entities involved, industry sectors covered, and the development stages of the Handbook, which was launched by His Highness Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Presidential Affairs in December 2012.    

His Excellency Dr Thani Almehairi, Director General of NQA, said that the workshop, one in a series of workshops to be delivered to various entities, aimed to illuminate the role of the Occupations and Career Handbook in better aligning academic and vocational programs and curricula outcomes with the current and future needs of the labor market, and in enhancing the role of career counselors to positively impact students’ choices on employment opportunities available for them.

The first of its type at the national and regional levels and the premier source for UAE Nationals career guidance, the Handbook, Dr Almehairi added, “is a real national achievement and is the result of more than one year of research and investigation carried out by a team of labor market strategies specialists, based on official data and statistics relevant to employment and economic development.”  

Exploring the development stages of the Handbook, Mr. Khalid Alobaidli, Director of the Vocational Qualifications and Labor Market Strategies Directorate at NQA, said, “Five industry sectors most commonly referred to in UAE Vision 2021 and Emirate specific strategic plans were identified to provide long-term career occupations for UAE nationals. These are energy resources, logistics and transport, utilities and infrastructure, building and construction, estates and assets development and management, and manufacturing.”

 

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