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29 March 2024

Abu Dhabi jobs portal attracts 100,000 candidates in 2015

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By Staff

The Jobs Abu Dhabi (JAD) Portal (www.jobs.abudhabi.ae), a key initiative under the e-Government Program of the Abu Dhabi Systems and Information Centre (ADSIC), continues to witness widespread success and demand as it reinforces its status as the preferred recruitment channel for the emirate of Abu Dhabi in 2015, attracting over 107,433 applicants.

Since its launch, the UAE capital’s leading recruitment platform, has effectively served as an employment website that connects Abu Dhabi’s government and private sector employers with jobseekers around the world, and has successfully attracted 613,872 registered job seekers, 4,894 employer registrations, 15,571 jobs postings and an impressive 11,068,099 total number of visitors, with an average of 3,000 jobs posted every year. JAD has also extended its visibility to 155 countries.

Commenting on the success of JAD, Dr. Ahmed Al Hashimi, Senior Manager - e-Government Services at ADSIC stated, “Jobs Abu Dhabi continues to notably support Abu Dhabi’s rapid economic development and growth, as the most popular service within the Abu Dhabi e-Government Portal.

Over the years, JAD has increased employers reach to a vast pool of local and global talent in order to meet their human capital and various recruitment needs across a multitude of specialisations and sectors, in a highly convenient, user-friendly and efficient manner that connects candidates to top employers.”

Al Hashimi added, “The large number of registered job seekers that the Portal enjoys today allows prospective employers to effectively target and streamline their recruitment needs by featuring vacancies and directly connecting with qualified candidates.

"We highly encourage employers from the Government and private sectors to join Jobs Abu Dhabi and benefit from its vast resources, as it provides the market with unmatched access to human capital and direct immediate impact on businesses and their operations.”

Al Hashimi went on to say that ADSIC managed to continually improve and expand the Portal’s services over the last eight years by working closely with international HR experts and partners, in order to establish a truly comprehensive employment digital gateway, with increased focus on delivering additional personalized services for government entities and new customer-centric enhancements.

Bridging the gap between employers and job seekers, JAD has emerged as the number one job search engine in Abu Dhabi and is not directly involved in the actual recruitment process, which is managed at the discretion of employers and at the individual entity level instead.

JAD also crossed another key milestone in its operations during the 6th edition of the annual virtual job gathering; e-Fair, which was organized by ADSIC last May.

The 2015 e-Fair aimed to bring Abu Dhabi employers and job-seekers together and witnessed  excellent turnout with 20,260 total visits, 91 employers, 13,400 job vacancies, 5,710 job seeker registrations, and 107,433 CVs received.

The 2015 e-Fair also featured major technological and customer-centric improvements, creating a user experience like no other, asserting the fair's pioneering utilisation of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) for increasing the efficiency of Abu Dhabi’s labour market.

Dr. Ahmed Al Hashimi said, “By utilizing the latest technology and providing a unique platform for employers and job seekers to effectively communicate, the 2015 e-Fair managed to solidify its ranking as a vital resource for the continued development of Abu Dhabi and the UAE’s dynamic job market.”

Surveys conducted by ADSIC revealed that individuals and businesses consider the Jobs Abu Dhabi portal as one of the most important under the emirate’s e-Government. Recent figures posted by the portal reflect the success of the various operational mechanisms and service enhancements that continually aim to boost visibility, appeal, convenience, and effectiveness.

The positive results and JAD’s exceptional overall performance have been driven by different customer-centric improvements such as enhanced CV searching within the JAD database; upgrades to JAD’s video and written content; the addition of a new ‘Poll Corner’ for users to express opinions; and links to popular social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook.