435 Omanis get placements at job fair

With 97 per cent work on the construction of new passenger terminal at Muscat International Airport having been completed, the authorities are awaiting final approvals for starting operations. The new airport will have the capacity to handle 20 million passengers a year in the initial stages, which will gradually be increased to 48 million passengers.

The terminal has a total area of 580,000 sqm with 118 check-in counters for airlines and 82 immigration desks. It was jobs galore at the Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex in Bausher as hundreds of job-seekers and their prospective employers gathered here on Wednesday.

“Qualified candidates from different streams of engineering attended the recruitment fair,” said a senior official from the Ministry of Manpower.

The three-day fair is being organised as part of the efforts by the ministry to provide jobs for the national workforce in the private sector.

Out of a total of 775 job-seekers who attended the fair, 435 have been given job offers, while candidatures of 128 were not accepted by companies.

In all, 2,200 active job-seekers were called for interviews by the Public Authority of Manpower Register.

“The aim of the exhibition is to gather specialised job-seekers in the engineering field. The recruitment is being done in accordance with seniority of the job-seekers and availability of jobs for a number of vacancies in various private sector companies,” said Hamad bin Khamis al Amri, Under-Secretary at the Ministry of Manpower for Labour Affairs.