Archive for July, 2008

Up, up and away: working for Emirates

Emirates airways just keeps getting bigger and bigger, and now with the expansion of their fleet to include the new Airbus A380 more and more jobs will be opening up.
Their Dubai jobs not only include air cabin crew, but also cargo agents, aircraft technicians, accounts supervisors, medical training specialists, IT personal, ticketing agents, drivers, [...]

Looking for IT Jobs in Dubai — Check Out Dubai Internet City.

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Dubai Internet city is home to a host of multinational IT companies such as Microsoft, Cisco, IBM, HP, Dell, Siemens, Sun Microsystems, Computer Associates, PeopleSoft and Sony Ericsson.
Situated in lush surroundings, Dubai Internet City is the perfect place to boost your IT career.
You can search for new IT jobs (as well as [...]

Day 1: The job hunt is on…

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Firstly you’ve come to the right place for unbiased information in looking for the right jobs in Dubai. This guide will give you a brief overview of where to start and you need to start now.
The speed at which recruitment companies handle CVs and respond back to potential candidates is slow. It’s [...]

Looking for Jobs in Dubai the easy way: Online Recruitment Portals and the Gulf News.

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Another useful resource for searching for jobs in Dubai is the online recruitment portals.
These are basically online job websites that allow recruitment agencies and employers to post a job opening and scan through the talent that applies to it. This is a quick and easy way to post your CV, but because [...]

It’s not what you know - It’s who you know.

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Now that you’ve applied online and sent your CV into all the recruitment companies from our list of top recruiters, it’s time to get off your backside and start networking.
But, where do you start?
Think of all your friends and their friends/coworkers etc. There is always someone who knows someone who worked [...]

Go directly to the source: Company Career Links

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Rather than wait around for recruitment companies to get back to you, start scanning through companies online that have career sections on their websites.
The majority of Dubai based businesses (or even international companies with Dubai offices) will have a Vacancies, “Work for us”, or Careers link on their home page. The [...]

Keeping track of job applications

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With all the different locations of advertisements for jobs in Dubai available to you - the internet, recruitment companies, newspapers and magazines - it’s difficult at times to keep track of what jobs you have applied for, and who you have spoken to about them.
You may get a phone call from a recruitment [...]