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As many as 4,115 new private sector companies and establishments joined the Emirati Talent Competitiveness programme (Nafis) between the beginning of this year until Aug.13.

This brings to 11,132 the total number of companies that joined the programme, recording an increase of about 58.6 per cent over the number of companies recorded until the end of December last year, which was estimated at 7,017 companies.

Companies, establishments and employers registered in Nafis offer thousands of vacancies in various fields and provide training opportunities for national cadres in various work sectors in the country. These companies also benefit from employees’ salary support and discounts on pensions.

The vacancies offered by the companies include education, accommodation and food service activities, finance and insurance, construction, wastewater and waste management, mining and quarrying, agriculture, forestry and fishing, human health and social work activities, information and communications, power supply, gas and steam, air conditioning.

They also include arts, entertainment and recreation, public administration and defence, real estate market activities, manufacturing, wholesale and retail trade, transportation and warehousing, administrative and support services, professional, scientific and technical activities and other sectors.

The programme called on job-seeking Emiratis to speed up updating their data on the platform, to take advantage of its benefits including the job opportunities available and the facilitated automatic matching between the job-seeker’s qualifications and experience and the jobs offered.

The program affirmed that it was working to increase the percentage of Emiratisation in the private sector by requesting the establishments with 50 employees or more to achieve an Emiratisation growth of one cent in skilled jobs every 6 months.

Abiding by the required Emiratisation rates provides many advantages that contribute to raising the company’s competitiveness and upgrading its business and granting it the membership of Tawteen Partners Club, which would enable it to obtain discounts of up to 80 per cent on the services provided by the Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation.