Oman: Unerfahrene Beschäftigte fordern mehr Gehalt

Vor dem Hintergrund der Omanisierung versuchen private Unternehmen mehr Einheimische zu beschäftigen. Dabei klagen die Unternehmen über die hohen Gehaltsforderungen von Berufseinsteigern oder unzureichend qualifizierten Omanis.

 

Oman employment: Inexperienced job seekers demand more salaries

 

Inexperienced Omani job seekers are demanding overtly high salaries while shunning training designed to help them advance, say employers who have called on recruits to adopt a new mindset.

To comply with the Omanisation policy, private companies have been seeking to employ more locals but they say that some Omanis do not seem to believe in working their way through the ranks, and demand unreasonably high salaries even when they are new to the field or are not qualified enough.

 

Justifiable pressure

 

Yusuf Nalwala, managing director of Al Ansari Group of Companies, said there is justifiable pressure from the Ministry of Manpower on companies to employ more Omanis, but many of the unemployed citizens do not possess the required skills and some are not open to the idea of receiving training.

 

Wishful thinking

 

"Their mental expectation is more attuned to getting as much as possible in terms of salary and other benefits, to keep up with the cost of living. They have not fully understood the economic dynamics that commercial balance is achieved with the supply and demand phenomenon and not one-sided wishful thinking," he told the Times of Oman.


Quelle: Times of Oman, timesofoman.de, 10.03.2015