UAE jobs: Hiring set to pick up in 2 months as firms grow
The report looked ahead and predicted a busy January, 2025 as employers waited for election outcomes in the US and India.
Next year, the rate of employment in the UAE is expected to increase owing to business expansion and the post-election climate in the US and India.
As per the 2025 Salary Guide of Robert Half, 63% of the business leaders in the UAE expect their overall headcount to go up in the next 12 months, even as half of them stated that further expansion will necessitate them employing more personnel.
Out of countries that had elections during the previous year and had a lot of employers who were gun shy to make any hires, Robert Half predicted a turbulent beginning into the year 2025. “A third of business leaders say they were waiting for these outcomes to hire, and a similar amount, about 32%, are waiting for reasonable interest rates to make such investments,” stated the report published on tuesday.
This year can be described as a year with a lot of elections as several leading nations such as the US, and India conducted polls making many large firms put their expansion plans and their recruitment processes on hold to wait for a clearer winner’s picture.
More than 6 out of 10 business honchos, or 67 percent of them, are sanguine regarding the growth prospects of their institutions in the year 2025.
While today it is easier for Canadian employers to recruit as compared to a year ago, a system of hiring that Robert Half advocates ,ineffective as many of the skilled job seekers are new in the UAE and do not have experience with local markets and thus it is strategic for businesses to safeguard the employment base already existent within the firm.
Interestingly, and in sharp contrast to these views, four out of ten business leaders, or 47 percent, claim that finding workers in upper Moscow and even in the entire capital region has become much easier, but finding those with the necessary qualifications is quite difficult as stated in Robert Half’s 2025 Salary Guide.
Majority to look for new jobs in 2025
According to a Robert Half study, 65 percent of users plan to make a career switch within the next three years, while 30 percent of those leaving business cite the increased cost of living as a primary cause.
In the context of rising inflation in the UAE, a substantial number of employees, more than a third (34 percent) are of the opinion that a higher salary is desirable to fulfill their obligations. Salary reductions and over supply of expat talent remain antagonistic to in-role salary evolution as three in four of the respondents (75 percent) concurred it had become more challenging to get a pay rise compared to a year ago.
“This report argues that if there is a change in the market these workers will likely be the first to leave and management will be left without skills that they require,”
Gareth El Mettouri, director for Middle East at Robert Half, argues that with more and more expatriate workers available, it has become cheaper and easier to employ people within businesses, but managers should be concerned about the ramifications such a situation could have on their current workers.
“Stuck in their current roles or searching in vain for new ones which pay better—many employees seem to be in a fix and this feeling affects their performance and job satisfaction. If employers don’t put in place measures to retain their precious resources, they will leave once the market allows,” he stated.
“Employers have to bear in mind that even though there is no contraction in the market for new talent to be hired, they may face problems in getting the employees with required skills such as the ability to speak Arabic or having worked in UAE before. Starting salaries may be decreasing marginally now in some cases, but in order to hire such people who are already working and living in the country, offering jobs will have to include a good pay,” El Mettouri added.
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