Ministry to focus on jobs for graduates

Muscat: The Ministry of Manpower has reaffirmed that next three months would see a focus on providing job opportunities to jobseekers holding college diploma and university graduates as part of implementation of the decision of the Council of Ministers on providing 25,000 job opportunities.
The ministry said that the government is going ahead with provision of job opportunities in all governorates of the Sultanate, according to the plan set for employment of jobseekers.
The first stage of the plan would end in May.
Salim bin Nasir Al Hadhrami, Director General of Planning an Development at the Ministry of Manpower said that the percentage achieved in response to the decision of the Council of Ministers on provision of job opportunities to jobseekers stood at 54 per cent as at end of February, where 13,500 jobseekers have been employed at the private sector establishments and companies.