Dubai Jobs Info

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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 not their fault either. The share volume of CVs a recruitment company receives puts recruitment consultants under enormous strain.

So we need to get our CV out there as quickly as possible.

With our CV in tip top shape we can now examine a number of the top recruitment companies which handle the best jobs in Dubai.

Recruitment Companies in Dubai

• Charterhouse.ae

• Grafton

• Hayes

• IQ Selection

• BAC Executive Recruitment

For a full listing of recruiters –>

Take a look at their websites, in particular their listings of jobs, note down contact details, and read through any information they might have on the recruitment process.

Tip: Have a look at some of the jobs listed that you would like to apply for and make sure your CV contains the keywords listed in the job description.

Some recruitment company websites require you to fill out an online form and upload your CV. This makes the process of applying for vacancies a lot easier in the long run.

Once you’ve applied for the appropriate jobs give it a day or two to ring the recruitment company. It’s highly unlikely the recruitment consultant would have had time to read your CV straight away.

However, in saying this, it may not be a bad idea to ring the front desk and ask to speak to a consultant. The receptionist may stop you from talking to someone and will suggest you have a look at their website, in which case you can still ask if your CV has been received.

The next time you ring, the receptionist may recognize your voice and let you speak to a recruitment consultant. If this fails you can say that you were left a message to ring a recruitment consultant and hopefully they’ll let you pass.

There are some recruitment agencies that let you speak directly to a consultant. Charterhouse and Hudson seem to be the best.

So, with day 1 over you should have at least checked out a few of the recruitment companies here in Dubai and submitted your CV to all of them.

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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

bayt.com

gulftalent.com

monstergulf.com

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.

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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 in Dubai or better yet, they are still working in Dubai.

Seek out their phone number or email address and politely ask them if they know of any recruitment consultants they dealt with when they landed their job, or find out if there are any vacancies at their current employment.

Someone always knows someone who has a lead and you only need that foot in the door to make yourself known to potential employers.

If you can’t possibly find a single soul to talk to then have a look at the networking and business groups available in Dubai. These give you the opportunity to make contacts and mix and mingle with like-minded people.

Check out:

• British Business Group
• Contact Networking Dubai
• AmeInfo
• International Business Women’s Group

You’re bound to find someone at one of these groups who has the contacts and know how in helping you find jobs in Dubai that match your skill set.

Once you’ve got enough contacts to fill a phone book make a list and give them a friendly call every now and then (every day is possibly a bit much – you don’t want to harass them!).

People are pretty good at helping a job seeker. They were most probably in the same boat not so long ago, so they know how difficult and frustrating it can be to land that dream job.

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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 larger ones will have an HR department who will handle new job positions and CVs that come in.

In order to keep track of the websites you are searching, have a look at the UAE Business Directory which will provide you with listings in a particular sector i.e. real estate, IT, construction.

Scroll through each section and have a look at the websites that come up. That way you know you’ve examined all career and job vacancies in that industry.

A search on “property” brings up 13 businesses in Dubai with their associated web addresses, mobile numbers and street addresses. Click on Emaar Properties and you’ll see they have a Careers link on the left hand side. From there you can submit your CV to the various Emaar sectors.

Another place to look, is in the Gulf News newspaper, at the advertisements. The majority will be for banks and property developers. Do a search on google for their websites and see if they have a careers section or better yet a contact number for the HR department.

Also flip through an issue of the Timeout magazine and have a look at all their listings related to sport, leisure, restaurants, bars, and events, and give them a call. They may just be waiting for a highly intelligent, enthusiastic person like yourself.

Tip: Before submitting your CV to the career section on the company website make sure your CV contains the keywords that are mentioned in the advertisement for that particular job. The company HR people will no doubt use a filtering system based on those key words to separate the “cream from the crop” so to speak. So make sure your CV at least has the job title mentioned in there somewhere.

Finding sources for jobs in Dubai has never been so easy – you just have to follow up on them.

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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 company discussing a particular IT job that you applied for weeks ago and haven’t a clue what they are talking about.

To solve this problem, buy yourself a small telephone directory type notebook. They are the ones with the alphabetized column down the side for entering in the last name of a friend or work colleague. Not many people use them now, because cellphones have taken over the role of storing contact details, so they may be tough to find.

But once you have one start entering in the names of recruitment companies and the jobs you’ve applied for. So, that when Bob from XYZ recruitment calls, you can flick to their listing and scan over the details of the job in an instant.