Whenever we open a window , doors get closed in reagrd to employing the citizens instead of the foreigners. During this week; our newspapers published declarations for some high officials which have mentioned that employing each citizen in the private sector is matched by employing thirteen expatriates in the same sector. We receive a million foreigners every year, in addition to half milliob visas in the hands of individuals who are selling them publically on the sidewalks. Meanwhile, locations and owners of 30% of gold workshops are unknown while the percentage of Saudi citizens who work in retail sector does not exceed 25%!! There are excesses which are not found anywhere else in the world as all markets, workshops, vegetables, fruits, sheep, internal transport sector and other fields are all dominated by the expatriates. This means that there is a big regulatory defect that kept widening until it caused paralysis to the government bodies in regard to facing such breaches. Otherwise, how could a person who came to our country under a visa of a construction worker, a driver, a dustman or any other fixed job be transformed to a salesman, a butcher, a carpenter, a farmer or other similar jobs until the end of the long chain. How could such a person change his profession according to his wish? The street is full of jobless workers who have been seen by the incharge officers of security, municipality, Ministry of labor & anti-concealment body but who have not moving their hands fingers for monitoring such phenomena, writing about them & treating them for serving the national interest. Remittances to the workers' countries are estimated by billions every year while the complains of unemployment by the national men and women is known by the high officilas before others. Providing justifications such as the citizen is lazy or that his qualification does not suit Labor Market is an issue about which Education & its various branches should be held responsible. In this regard; I suggested earlier to open the technical colleges and institutes at night for training a big sector of the citizens who do not have certain jobs so that they can impose themselves on the market later, especially in regard to to those whose education is less than college graduates such as graduates of preparatory & secondary schools. It is an experiment that had achieved success in Riyadh at the beginning of institutes and vocational centers establishment. Another suggestion can be returning to the modern schools which combines between the public and vocational education at the same time. It was such a great experience that had been stopped for unknown reasons!! We witnessed a case that should have been an alarm for us when Saddam launched his missles on our country as we witnessed, then, the great escape for the technical workers from the hospitals, maintenance workshops of avation and Computers Centers & frm all the work centers we need. However; we are still bringing new workers. The existence of the technical institutes and colleges have become a burden for the development rather than making an actual difference in labor market, in spite of their long age and the billions that dedicated for & spent on them. The disorder cannot be treated by soothing prescriptions. All government bodies & private sector establishments should hold successive meetings with experts and specialized professionals for creating a complete plan that does not serve the interest of the employer as much as the national interest. We should benefit from the experiments of others as is is not possible at all to keep ignoring such condition.Third of our population are foreigners that represent time bombs. On the other hand, the rise of birth cases among our citizens is one of the highest rates as per the international statistics. Accordingly; our needs for jobs vacancies in various specializations are being doubled every year. It is regrettable that holdrs of high postgradute degrees have become a part of the unemployed citizen list!!
