JEDDAH: Recruitment offices and companies at the Third Jobs Exhibition have received higher quality CVs from jobseekers compared to the previous two years, said Amani Bantan, President of Golden Telad Recruitment office, in telephonic interview with Saudi Gazette. “This year was better than the previous two years in terms of quality of CVs,” she said. She said most of the applicants were women. She said her clients have 20 positions immediately available, in accounting, administration, graphic design and electronic engineering. Most of the participant companies at the exhibition have recruitment companies working for them. Their role is to receive the applications and CVs and pass them on to the Human Resources Departments of these companies. “Unfortunately, some applicants think that recruitment offices must find jobs for them because they are Saudis. We are responsible for passing their CVs to our clients according to the available positions only and the companies will decide whether to recruit them or not,” Bantan said. One of the recruitment companies received about 700 applications on the first day. The majority of companies are looking for qualified youths, especially those who have bachelors and masters degrees. Moatasem Tolah, a Saudi who visited the expo to find a job as a sales representative, said he found many vacancies. However, he does not want to work for certain companies because he has had bad experiences with some of them. “Frankly speaking, I used to work here for a very famous brand name. They told me that I had to spend three months on trial and that they would then recruit me permanently. After two months they sent me a report informing me that they did not need me because I did not reach their sales target,” said Tolah. “I want to know where Saudization is being implemented. Unfortunately, some companies are just promoting themselves under the term Saudization,” he said. Some applicants told Saudi Gazette that they have suffered enough from the negative attitude toward them from some companies in the private sector, even though they are highly productive. “I used to work for a company where my boss did not trust me because I am a Saudi. He insisted on focusing on negative points and ignoring the positive,” said Is'haq Daghestani.
