MANAMA, BAHRAIN - Monday, 19 November 2012
Online careers and employment platform Jobs4Bahrainis.com has announced a partnership with the Kingdom's Tamkeen which will further enhance the employment prospects of qualified Bahraini nationals.
Under the terms of the new partnership, Tamkeen will meet 100% of the costs previously charged to companies and job seekers to use the site, employers will be able to post job vacancies, and job seekers will be able to upload their CVs, free of charge.
The interactive portal, which was launched in mid-2010 as the first private sector initiative of its type, provides a platform for job seekers to connect with local and international employers in the Kingdom, The recruitment portal of choice, Jobs4Bahrainis.com currently hosts 12,300 CVs and has been used by more than 600 employers to date.
,Gulf Connexions Chairman Anwar Abdulrahman said: "The partnership with Tamkeen is a very exciting development in Jobs4Bahrainis.com's evolution. The team has worked tirelessly since inception to build the portal's reputation.
"This partnership will no doubt deliver on our aims to widen the jobs, training and personal development opportunities to job seekers, while at the same time provide a user-friendly virtual market place for employers to match the best available talent to their vacancies.
"We must congratulate Tamkeen for their bold initiative to encourage more Bahrainis to enter the Kingdom's workforce."
Tamkeen's Chief Executive Mahmood Hashem Al Kooheji, said: "Tamkeen continues to support Bahrainis through the various Human Capital Development and Private Sector Support programmes as we look to expand and diversify the local economy.
"Jobs4Bahrainis.com is an excellent vehicle to encourage broader employer-employee matchmaking. It will also serve as a showcase to consolidate many of our other initiatives in Human Capital Development such as professional and vocational training, employment initiatives and training on work readiness skills."
Fully aligned with the Kingdom's Economic Vision 2030, Jobs4Bahrainis.com is designed to promote Bahrainis as the employees of choice by showcasing a community of available talent and skills. As well as offering a comprehensive CV database and job vacancy upload capability, the portal has searchable databases for employers and job seekers, as well as a business newsfeed providing the latest economic and business updates on Bahrain's economy.
Jobs4Bahrainis.com is an initiative of Gulf Connexions, the Kingdom's leading recruitment company.
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About Tamkeen
Tamkeen is an initiative funded by the private sector for the private sector, tasked with developing Bahrain's private sector and positioning it as the key driver of economic development. Established in August 2006, Tamkeen is one of the cornerstones of Bahrain's national reform initiatives and Bahrain Economic Vision 2030.
Tamkeen has two primary objectives: Firstly, fostering the creation and development of enterprises, and secondly, providing support to enhance the productivity and growth of enterprises and individuals.
Under each of those objectives, certain mechanisms and innovative support initiatives have been put in place by Tamkeen to address current and future gaps for individuals and enterprises in the private sector that have been identified by thorough studies of the labour market landscape. To date, Tamkeen has created 180 such support programmes.
For Bahrainis, Tamkeen's programmes range from developing the skills and capabilities of Bahrain's human capital, to promoting sound workplace ethics and training on leadership and management best practices, among others. For enterprises, Tamkeen provides programmes which offer enterprises with subsidised business support services, facilitate access to financing to bridge the enterprise financing gap, and enable entrepreneurship, to name a few.
Together, these programmes have benefited 53,000 Bahrainis and enterprises in the private sector, and re-injected more than BD 166 million into the sector. The total number of Bahrainis and enterprises expected to benefit from Tamkeen's various support programmes exceeds 100,000 beneficiaries.
Tamkeen's human capital development programmes have benefited more than 40,000 Bahrainis, including funding training for nearly 22,000 Bahrainis, and enabling another 3,500 Bahrainis to find gainful employment and more than 1,000 Bahrainis to obtain professional certifications in their respective fields.
For enterprises, Tamkeen have supported well over 16,000 enterprises, including enabling more than 4,500 enterprises to access low-cost capital through its BD 189.5 million financing portfolio, and an additional 4,000 enterprises to enhance their performance through its subsidised business support services.
In parallel, Tamkeen's programmes have played a key role in institutionalising new concepts within Bahrain's private sector, including SME and micro-financing, entrepreneurship as a viable career path, women empowerment, modern accounting and auditing systems within SMEs, and many other paradigms needed for a vibrant sustainable private sector.
Tamkeen's funds come from 50% of the fees collected from the Labour Market Regulatory
For more information about our programmes, please call:
Marketing Communication department
Tamkeen
Telephone: 17383333Fax: 17382352
e-Mail : support@tamkeen.bh
Website : www.tamkeen.bh
http://www.facebook.com/TamkeenBahrain
http://twitter.com/TamkeenBahrain
http://www.youtube.com/TamkeenBahrain
Hussain Ali - Jobs4Bahraini's
Mobile: +973 17565359
PO Box 2591, Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain
hussain@jobs4bahrainis.com
www.Jobs4Bahrainis.com
© Press Release 2012
