Thursday 23 June 2011

FT.com - Middle East: Companies struggling to find top talent

Governments from Morocco to the Gulf are rushing to create jobs for their millions of young people in the wake of violent unrest in a succession of Arab countries. At the same time, multinational and local businesses are struggling to find skilled labour.

Nearly two-thirds of Egyptians, in a recent poll, cited lack of jobs and poverty as the primary reason they supported the revolution.

But at the top, companies fight for the region’s highly skilled workers, those equipped with both the technical and the soft skills needed to compete on international markets.

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