Simulated Meeting Description, Agenda and Reflection

Meeting Activity

Simulated Meeting Assignment

Topic to be discussed: Emiratization

Date of Meeting: Sunday 18^th of March 2012

Time of meeting: 8:00 am

Venue: Research and Innovation Centre

Group Members:

Chairman: Abdulqader

Secretary: Nabil Luqman

Participant: Ahmed Saleh

Preparation:

Grouping of chairs and a round table.

Agenda:

Emiratization

The negative effects, of not providing enough information to students, targeting the private sector as well as the public.

The restrictions caused by this lack of information to fresh graduates seeking jobs.

How can we solve this issue and what measures need to be taken to combat this rising issue.

Topic Description:

Recent statistics and studies have shown how the public sector job vacancies are quickly being taken by fresh graduates every year. This will prove to be a great problem for fresh graduates from institutions such as HCT in the near future; how so?

Most Emirati graduates target the public sector in their search for jobs, due to benefits, salaries etc… but what if a job is unavailable? The private sector is at large and growing at an incredible pace, but due to the lack of information, many would believe the private sector is a far cry from the public sector’s many strengths.

In this meeting, we wish to provide a number of ideas as well as solutions, to help soon-to-be graduates know the differences between the public and private sectors, along with a great number of advantages and disadvantages.

The Meeting:

Time of meeting: 8:33 am

At 8:33 am, The Chairman, Abdulqader, called the meeting to order. Abdulqader brought the topic to hand and addressed myself, Nabil Luqman, and our colleague, Ahmed Saleh, on the rising issue of Emiratization.

Many points were brought to light, issues as well as solutions.

Abdulqader explained how it’s very difficult for the public sector to accommodate all fresh graduates, from institutions such as HCT; the number of vacancies against the number of graduates are inversely proportional.

Mr. Hedley asked questions portraying the competition between the private and public sectors. We answered Mr. Hedley with an explanation of how the current lack of information on the private sector, is putting many graduates at a standstill.

The lack of stability was mentioned; the public sector may have more benefits, but lacks the ability to take in all graduates seeking jobs, hence, a solution is required, the private sector, not unemployement.

Before the end of the meeting, we discussed the matter with Mr. Hedley, summarizing the whole meeting and all points covered.

Abdulqader called an end to the meeting at 9:11 am.

End of meeting: 9:11 am

Meeting Reflection

Date: Sunday 18^th March

Location: Independent Research Centre

Chairman: Abdulqader Al Hashime

Secretary: Nabil

Participant: Ahmed Salah

After greeting the other participants. I opened the meeting and talked about the items on the agenda. The subject of the meeting was Emiratisation. Then Nabil jumped to the next item on the agenda, which was about lack of information from the private sector; he said that the reason for the reluctance of the graduates to work in the private sector is the lack of information. The second item is the government hasn’t enough careers for all graduates. The participant Ahmed said the government and the private sector should balance the privileges which included the salary, pension etc. And he said that we need to enhance students to get work experience in the private sector. Nabil said the college must provide classes and courses which contain information on the private sector. Ahmad Saleh said we need to prepare the graduates by entering them into a special program. Nabil said that students need clarity between the private and the government sector and have information about both sectors. Finally I finished the meeting by thanking Nabil and Ahmad Saleh for their participation.