The National Joint Training Organization has begun its Eighth Training Course for the employment of Saudi youth in the private sector. The course is run in conjunction with the Labor Offices, the Dammam Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Human Resources Fund, and trainees will be trained in 50 different job categories according to private sector needs. “It's a training program with a job at the end of it,” said Mansour Abdullah Al-Mobaireek, head of the organization's Eastern Province office. “Twenty-five percent of the program's first phase focuses on theoretical studies in institutes of the General Organization for Technical Education and Vocational Training and other private institutes as well.” “By theoretical studies we mean the trainee will be trained in job behavior, computers, English and the job skills he will require,” Al-Mobaireek continued. “The remaining 75 percent of the training takes place in the establishment the trainee is to be employed by, with a paid salary of SR1,500. The Human Resources Fund pays 75 percent of the salary while the employing establishment pays 25 percent during the period of training. When the trainee finishes the program, the Fund will pay 50 percent of his salary for a year following his appointment.”
