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AStepAhead 2017

by Philipp Dienstbier, Dr. Manuel Schubert

A Career Fair for Women as an Entry Point into the Labour Market

In addition to its commodity wealth, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has a resource for which it is far less well-known: highly qualified labour, especially women. Unlike its oil reserves, however, this vast human resource has been partially underutilized in recent years. This is illustrated by the following key figures: Although a notable proportion of 51.8% of graduates in Saudi Arabia today are female, still 32.8% of all Saudi women remain unemployed.
September 29, 2017 Order details

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Khalid Al Khudair, founder and CEO of Glowork, greets the participants at the start of the career fair.
H.H. Princess Haifa Bint Mohammed Al Saud expresses her gratitude to Dr Manuel Schubert, the Regional Representative to the Gulf States of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS), for the support of the career fair.
Government officials and business leaders debated during four panel discussions at the start of the career fair.
Over the three days of this year's edition of "AStepAhead", a total of 37,000 Saudi women seeking employment participated in the fair.
In addition, "AStepAhead" offered some 45 workshops with experts and female executives.

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