Le point de la semaine : Les relations entre collègues de travail au Maroc
Vous maintenez de très bonnes relations avec vos collègues de travail ! C’est en tout cas ce que révèle le sondage auquel 1435 utilisateurs marocains de Bayt.com ont répondu en mars dernier. En grande majorité, avec près de 42% des votes vous avez décrit vos relations comme étant très bonnes avec vos collaborateurs. Pour 29% d’entre vous, elles seraient bonnes et pour 12% elles seraient plutôt modérées. 7% d’entre vous avouent que leurs rapports avec leurs collègues sont plutôt tendus.
Interrogés sur la manière dont vous gérez les différends avec vos collègues de travail, vous étiez 70% à affirmer que vous les réglez entre vous comme des adultes. Tandis que 12% préfèrent en parler avec leurs supérieurs hiérarchiques et les laisser s’occuper du reste, près de 9% favoriseraient la discussion avec la direction des Ressources Humaines. Fait surprenant, 9% d’entre vous préféraient le statuquo et laisser les choses comme elles sont !
The Most Common Question: Are there still jobs out there?
No matter where I am in the region, the most common question that I am currently asked: “Is anyone still hiring?”
It is generally followed in a hushed, apologetic voice with, “How is bayt.com doing?”
The underlying premise is that, due to the current economic crisis, hiring in the Middle East and North Africa has come to a grinding halt and bayt.com’s phenomenal historical growth has been stunted.
The reality is, and www.bayt.com is clear evidence of this, there are still tens of thousands of companies hiring hundreds of thousands of people across the region. True, the hiring may not be as aggressive as it was last year, companies may be shedding resources, and economic prospects remain unclear. However, surviving companies are continually in a state of upgrading their existing talent and replacing staff due to natural attrition. There is no better time to find phenomenal talent interested in working in the region and through Bayt.com there is no better way to hire these individuals quickly, easily and cost-effectively. Companies are therefore still hiring and Bayt.com is still expanding.
Now for the answers to corollary questions: Are there still jobs in Dubai? Is Qatar still growing? Is it time to consider a career in Kuwait or Saudi Arabia?
Yes on all fronts (see jobs in Dubai, jobs in Qatar, jobs in Kuwait, jobs in Saudi)! In this marketplace great talent is still in demand across the region, and professionals should open their horizons to the right opportunity wherever it exists. The search for jobs in the Middle East is, and will be, more challenging than it has been in prior years. However, with the right preparation, hard work, and initiative, good people will find good jobs!
Intilaq – ready for launch
Funding and mentoring will be available for regional strategists and technologists with a solid team and great idea
Intilaq, to launch in Arabic – a unique initiative that will nurture and facilitate innovative entrepreneurship in the technology sector around the Middle East, was launched in the region this week. Powered by Bayt.com, the region’s number one job site, the Intilaq initiative operates following a dual approach: to develop innovative ideas germinated within Bayt.com, and to fund and mentor compelling entrepreneurial start-ups and their innovations, through acquiring equity or full-scale acquisitions.
Bayt.com welcomes over 14,000 visitors to first ever pan-regional Virtual Job Fair as part of Middle East recruitment drive
Fifth version of VJF cited as most successful yet, attracting more top talent and leading employers than ever before
Bayt.com, the Middle East’s number one job site, has announced that it received more than 14,000 unique visitors to its pan-regional Virtual Job Fair (VJF), which ran on the Bayt.com website between March 22nd and 26th, for employers and job seekers in the Middle East to interact in a convenient, hassle free and stress free forum. The Virtual Job Fair, which aimed to address the region’s growing levels of unemployment also recorded almost 81,000 total views, and received more than 20,000 registrations.
Bayt Jobs on Twitter
You’d have to try hard not to hear Twitter mentioned by Larry King, or CNN, or Ashton Kutcher, or Gulf News, and so on. The buzz around Twitter is huge and people are micro-blogging their interests 140 characters at a time from across the globe.
So what’s the big deal? Well, Twitter’s appeal to many is the ease of publishing snippets of information, links, thoughts, new events comments – among other things. twitter appeals to the blogging crowd who never had the time or attention span to compose blog posts, or to the individuals and business looking for information in real-time. Do a Google search and you get a list of indexed web pages – after Google has crawled them. Do a Twitter search and you get real-time citizen-powered journalism. Twitter is part of the real-time web.
We’re running our own little experiment here with Twitter. We’re tweeting some of our media, marketing and tech jobs on a Twitter account. We have job alerts which let the tech do the work for the job seeker – pushing matching jobs out to job seekers at their request. With this Twitter account, people can “follow” us and get updates in their Twitter feed.
It’s purely opt-in and we are sticking to this niche of jobs since this reflects the early-adopters who are on Twitter. If people find this valuable then we have plans to expand this service for people.
If you’re on Twitter you can follow us here @BaytJobs
I’m on Twitter too, so feel free to follow @danstuart
Let us know what you think through a DM on Twitter or in the comments here.
Qatar Leads the Way For Broadband Penetration
Recently, Qatar’s position as a regional broadband leader was confirmed by “one of the most comprehensive studies of broadband communications ever conducted in the region.” Qatar currently offers the lowest broadband prices in the GCC – “between 10% and 23% lower than that of the average of other GCC nations.” Business Intelligence ME
The study, by international management consulting firm Arthur D Little, provides one of the clearest indications yet of the progress of the ‘Broadband Qatar’ strategy, which aims to provide affordable, high speed internet connectivity to as many people as possible in Qatar.Recently, STC in Saudi Arabia announced that they would cut broadband tariffs by 70% so it will be interesting to see how this affects penetration rates in the Kingdom.
Interview with Joumana Abu-Shaheen from Leo Burnett
1. What is the most important thing you look for in new hires?
Leo Burnett vehemently believes that we are only as good as our people so we look for expertise, curiosity, enthusiasm and cultural fit. And the advertising/communications industry is one that requires a great deal of passion and a spring in ones step, so when you look around, you want to see everyone having fun, generating big ideas and contributing to the creative spirit and purpose of the agency. This is why we look for the before mentioned qualities.
2. What is the biggest challenge you face in hiring talent?
Our industry is becoming increasingly fragmented so the availability of talent that specialize in the different areas of
communication has always been the most challenging aspect of my job. And naturally time is always of essence, but you cannot rush on finding quality because a wrong hire will eventually cause a rift in your operation and you are
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How to Beat (or at least survive) the Credit Crunch
I won’t overdo it with the clichés, but it seems there is hardly a corner of the world remaining that isn’t affected adversely by the global economic crisis. In fact, I find that the vast majority of my meetings with clients these days begin with assessing their marketing needs, but gradually evolve into much more complex conversations touching on aspects from cost-cutting and pricing policies in a credit starved economic environment all the way through to how to gain market share and retain customers and increase loyalty.
I don’t think anyone is either enlightened enough or has the foresight to be able to predict anything to any major degree of accuracy right now, but I have been sitting back over recent months and watching happenings with great interest, both globally as well as in our little pocket of the world. Now that we are approaching the tail end of Q1 2009, I’d like to throw a few theories into the ether and see what comes back my way – hopefully it wont all be abuse!
Appeal to Your Consumer in the “Here and Now”
Tough times mean consumers shy away from luxury and veer towards familiarity, safety and above all value for money. A year ago you may have focused on the great new technologies of your product, or some innovative new design… today you must focus on the value of the purchase, and the safety of the investment for your customer.Focus on flexible payment plans or pricing incentives to encourage consumption of your product, and make sure that your message is focused around comfortable, familiar themes, and easy and risk-free adoption.
Interview with Chafic K. Kharma from Rasgas Qatar
1. What are your expectations vis-à-vis the robustness of the regional job market in the petroleum industry for 2009?
We expect that there will still be a great challenge to recruit top notch professionals, especially for experienced engineers. Although, some companies may have been slowing down their activities due to the current economic conditions and oil price decline, but the demand for those professionals will still be highly driven by the fact that many oil and gas companies are optimizing their production capability.
2. How will it differ from 2008 in your opinion?
Although it may mean less recruitment activities as compared to those of 2008, the difference will not be significant especially in the energy sector.
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Interview with Mohammed Al Awwad from QatarCool
1. What is your average day like?
50% of my day at Qatarcool is spent as per the work plan (Recruitment, Training, P&P, Performance Management, Career Development.20% is spent reviewing and approving daily documents, 10% is spent on follow ups, and the rest is spent in meetings.
2. What is your biggest professional challenge?
Making the staff better aware of the HR roles. In general the four major HR challenges faced by managers and organizations are the globalization of business, economic and technological changes, workforce demographics and diversity, and organizational cost pressures and restructuring.
