Thursday 05 / June / 2025
Omanisation Career Fair 2017 will open in Muscat in April, giving the youth in the Sultanate an opportunity to understand and learn about work practices across a range of industries.
A career fair is organised with a number of objectives. It helps youth aspirants, giving them a chance to interact with prospective clients and understand the kind of business they do in Oman and elsewhere in the world.
Even though the challenges are many, a career fair is an occasion for the youth to apply their learning to actual work situations. The increasing participation of organisations in such events is proof enough that they realise that youth must get the right opportunities to prove themselves and become competent enough to take on any sort of responsibilities.
It brings job opportunities within reach and showcases prospects for further learning and development to find the right job.
In the new age, when the youth have countless options and understand that every job has its own charms and decorum, this kind of fair helps youth in planning their future, offering them better choices and a work life balance that ensures they have the best of everything in life.
Human resources being a vast and complex subject, especially in this new and complex age, the more the youth adapt to life early, the better equipped they will be to shape their future. Let the youngsters be the decision makers as they find their way forward, rather than asking them to follow paths chosen by others.
With the changing commercial perceptions across the globe, organisations do compromise a lot on effectively implementing good human resources practices, especially in the absence of qualified professionals who seek more returns for their efforts.
In such a scenario, a career fair will also help youngsters understand their career progression and expectations, which are the key to a professionally managed workforce and organizational functions.
While many are opting for professional courses, youngsters do need to search for opportunities in other areas of interest. Events such as this fair offer the youth a chance to go for their choice, and help them see the world from an entirely different perspective.
For any large scale organisation, it is imperative that the prospective young workers understand how their knowledge would help them in associating with proficient teams around and, in exchange, how they will gain an understanding about an effective work culture.
As Oman’s private sector employs a large number of Omani youth, it’s a blessing for them to have a choice of joining diverse trade and business activities. The career fair can indeed produce a database of students and fresh youth looking for jobs and understand their future plans to help them improve their employment prospects.
Career fair and its forthcoming values
The Sultanate being home to the best talented individuals, spread across a variety of job portfolios, skilled and unskilled, in the region, any career-related information would be an opportunity for them to feel that they could succeed and take over challenging roles in any spectrum of industry.
As work environment becomes challenging and they face a new work culture, a better understanding of the trade and industry decorum would offer the youth more opportunities to join various ventures.
Since the key objective of such events is developing a talented and multi-tasking workforce, the best part are the various human resources initiatives being planned by corporates, trade and service industries in Oman.
The career fair can also assist the youth with identifying suitable training and development plans targeted at the fresh pass-outs. As Oman has a number of learning and development institutions already active, the best part is to identify the right choice for the right people and meeting their expectations.
The Omanisation Career Fair can be a great platform for interaction among the youth, and between the industry and youth.
