agenda, minutes & recommendations

In-class meeting: agenda, minutes & recommendations

Problem: Emiratization.

Date of meeting: 17^th march 2013

Time of meeting: 11:35

VENUE: C001

Group members:

Chair: Mohammed Awadh

Secretary: Khalfan AlMuhairi

Participant: Saeed & hamed

Agenda:

Emiratization.

Government sector/ Private sector.

Work experience.

Youth forum.

Internship in private sector.

Career fairs.

Reducing benefits in G.S.

Privatization .

The chairman Mohamed Awadh opened the meeting at 11:35

1. Emiratization:

Khalfan said that Emitatization is a good Idea to help local people to work in the local sector and it’s an idea invented by the government ten years ago to hire the possible number of citizens people to work in the private sector.

2.Government sector / private sector:

Khalfan explained the difference between the private sector and the public sector; the government sector follows the rules of the government, but the private sector has less commitment to rules.

Khalfan kept saying the government sector provides its workers with high salaries and security in work unlike the private sector, which has low salaries and no stability.

3.Youth forum:

Mohamed asked what are the solutions to apply the theory of Emiratization?

Hamed said that the first step HCT should take is graduate students with experience and that will happen by a lot of experience courses and opening a youth forum like Mubadla, to motivate students to get involved in the private sector.

4.Internship in the private sector:

Hamed continued the second solution that we will discuss which is the internship in the private sector and that needs companies from the private sector to sign an agreement with HCT for scholarships with the students to guide training and assign students to work in the company concerned. Khalfan added that’s a way to get the right experience to have the ability to work in the company concerned to achieve perfection in work. Also Mohamed said that to start this idea HCT should include a course for developing experience and qualities of teamwork and individuality.

5.Career fairs:

Saeed talked about a solution, which is a career fair. HCT should organize career fairs including more from the private sector than from the government sector; also to introduce the students to the private sector is benefits and duties.

6.Reduce the benefits of the government sector:

Saeed also added that government should reduce the benefits of their newly signed up employees to equal them with the private sector employees like the insurance and the retirement salary.

Mohammed argued that we can’t equal the two sectors together because there is a big difference between them.

Saeed then said it’s only a fact to change people’s idea of the private sector.

Mr. Hedley also said the new contract needs to be more realistic.

7. Privatization:

Khalfan mentioned a solution which all the group considered the best solution that is privatization. Privatization means to change a public sector to a private sector. For example, Abu Dhabi police had privatized its accidents delineation section to a company called SAAD.

Mr. Hedley confirmed that privatization would solve more problems, as it had in the U.K.
 

In conclusion:
1. Convincing people to be enroll in the private sector.
2. The government sector follows the rules of the government, the private sector has less commitment to rules.
3. HCT should provide youth forums to the students.

4. Private sector companies should offer internship to current students.
5. HCT needs to organize career fairs introducing the private sector.

6. Try to equate the government sector and the private sector.

7. Privatize some of the public sector companies

 

Reflection meeting

Reflection

We started the meeting by deciding which topic to talk about and what are the roles of each person. After we sat and discussed we choose our topic which was Emiratization. There was an argument about the issue where everyone gave his opinion about Emiratization. The issue is based on young adults prefer working in the government sector rather than the private sector. We agreed on a time and place to briefly introduce the agenda and give solutions how to encourage students to start applying for the private sector. We started the meeting by the chairman welcoming us; after that we sat and discussed some of the possible solutions to increase employment in the private sector. We went through the agenda and covered all the possible solutions. In addition, we gave examples how it is going to be done. The chairman was impressed by the group’s ideas and how creative we were to bring up the best solution for our issue. Some of my ideas were disliked by the group because they were unrealistic and not possible. We ended the meeting by bringing up the best solution to encourage students about the private sector. If we had the opportunity to work on the issue, we would have done a successful job because of the brilliant ideas we figured out. At last, the chairman again thanked us for participating in the meeting and closed it in a good way.

interview report

Eissa Alhosani was interviewed by Ghanem Alhassani, H00237051, and Mohammed Almosaabi H00230922, in C1001 classroom on 27-2-2013 at 11:30 am. Eissa Alhossani has a bachelor degree in accounting, studied in Abu Dhabi Mens College, and is 28 years old; he has 3 years of experience in Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank.  He left his job because he was not satisfied and prefers the government sector over the private. Eissa started well in the interview where he talked clearly about himself .He was wearing a traditional kandoora which is a clothing that suits the interview, but his problem was he made no eye contact with the interviewers and did not move his hands or show a good body language. Talking in a clear voice is crucial in an interview to show that the person is confident about himself. I didn’t see any of these characteristics in Eissa since his voice was low and not clear. Pertaining to language he used simple words and there were no complex words. Eissa was not sitting straight and his head was down which did not impress the interviewers. Preparation leads to self-confidence and knowing what to talk about with no hesitancy, and Eissa did not have any of these appearances that show he was prepared.

 

Can you work under pressure? Was the easiest question as he said because in our days every one faces pressure so it became something normal to handle. On the other hand, the hardest question was why  should I hire you because he did not know what abilities and skills  would make him a valued employee in the company. Eissa’s performance was not bad in the beginning but he seemed stressed and not confident about himself. I think if it was a real interview he would not have gotten the job because he did not amaze the interviewers about his appearance and abilities.