‘Enhance talents, Sunaidy tells youth

“After this step, we went further with rates reflected on the product, which is a necessary evil because it raises the cost of production but allows us to avoid inefficient power.”

“Factory owners are not happy with our decision but it leads to buying the energy for the correct cost of a kilowatt/hour of power at that time of the day,” he revealed. “If you have a substitute for power at that time, you are welcome to use it. This is the most unified solution for us to use resources more efficiently.”

Al Sunaidy added that future generations of jobseekers across Oman and the rest of the GCC countries – Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain – would need to learn how to use their skills to the best of their capabilities, in order to enhance their talents. He also stressed that although the government was doing a lot to help young nationals, true teaching began at home, with parents teaching their young ones the life lessons they would need to succeed in the future.

“In Oman, we have formed a team with the World Economic Forum and four countries that are a part of it, and we call on other countries here to seriously consider being a part of this project,” he said.

Start early

“We are currently thinking about the skills that people need in the future market, skills that we thought would be taught in universities and training centres. However, it has become clear that these skills begin two years after a child is born, and remain with him or her until after retirement, and so it isn’t about universities. If the institutions, factories, and companies don’t acknowledge publicly and on a governmental level the value of re-training workers to bring them to new jobs, then all of those people will go to the private sector, which will be forced to take them although there is no work for them, leading to masked unemployment, or they will go to the government sector, which will start imposing taxes in order to be able to hire them for the sake of avoiding leaving these people without jobs.”