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 open to the entire internet world every jobseeker on the planet can use it to submit their CV for various Dubai jobs.
This means your CV would have to stand out to get noticed. And if you’re applying for jobs in a highly saturated market like IT then you’ll need a few tricks up your sleeve for an employer to even contemplate looking at your CV.
Major Online Recruitment Portals
Another option worth trying is buying a Gulf News newspaper each morning (if you’re in the country), going directly to the Appointments section (ignore the sports news - you don’t have time), and circling all the Dubai jobs. There will be some from Qatar and other regions of the Gulf.
Once you’ve gone through all possible vacancies, jump onto a computer and before sending off your CV to them check out their website to see if it provides any more information about the job that you could work into your CV or covering letter.
Don’t forget to keep hold of the Appointments section as a record of who you have applied to. Eventually someone will ring you up and you will need the background information at hand so you know what they are talking about (check out our ways for keeping track of the jobs you’ve applied for in Dubai).
Recruitment companies and employers will sometimes use a gmail, yahoo or hotmail account to collect CVs rather than a company address so as to avoid any spammers. Plus it’s a good place to separate out the hundreds of CVs they must receive.
Right, we are at the end of this section. Think online portals and the Gulf News. Oh, by the way, you can also access the Gulf News job section on their website Jobs4u.
