MAXIMISING EMIRATI TALENT MAXIMISING EMIRATI TALENT in engineering To make a difference To help employers To find new data, new perspectives, new ideas.

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MAXIMISING EMIRATI TALENTin engineering

To make a difference

To help employers

To find new data, new perspectives, new ideas

Objectives:

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THE CRITICAL STRATEGIC CAPABILITY FOR EMIRATIS

LEADERSHIP

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How many leaders does a country need?

Strategic Leaders

1%

Executive Leaders

7%

Supervisors & non-leaders

92%

Roughly 8% of workforce

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United Kingdom

Strategic Leaders

1%

Executive Leaders

7%

Supervisors & non-leaders

92%

There are ~55m UK nationals

Of the total 60m population of UK, 4.8m

need to be leaders

So <10% of UK nationals can/should

be leaders

~5m expats Germany: ~74m German nationals , ~6m expats,

6.4m (<10%) German nationals need to be executive leaders

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United Arab Emirates

Strategic Leaders

1%

Executive Leaders

7%

Supervisors & non-leaders

92%

There are ~1m UAE nationals

Of the total ~8m population of the UAE,

0.64m need to be leaders

So a very high proportion (>64%) of Emiratis HAVE to

be leaders!

~7m expats

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Can we ‘fast track’ Emiratis to leadership positions?

• Armies• Graduate schemes• Family businesses

Does a person need to have cleaned rooms, in order to run a hotel? To have laid bricks in order to run a construction company?To have flown or maintained a plane in order to run an airline?

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MAXIMIZING EMIRATI TALENT:Recommendations for employers

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It’s a small pool

… and everyone is fishing in it.

Attracting, recruiting, retaining the Best Emirati Talent

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Increase the size of the pool

Increase our share of the pool

Fish in a different pool

What can we do?

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0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

Which factors motivate young Emiratis the most?

Employers & educators Students combined

Increase your share of the pool

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“I want my father to be proud of me”

“I want to be

part of growing

the UAE as a

great nation”

“My country and my family are

everything to me”

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Finding the TalentFinding the Job

Recommendations from influential people

Approach from employer Apply for job online Recruitment fairs 0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

Employers Students Combined

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Fish in a different pool

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Fish in a different pool

-

200,000

400,000

600,000

800,000

1,000,000

1,200,000

Cities

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Increase the size of the pool

Increase your share of the pool

Fish in a different pool

Recommendations for Employers

Fast track potential Emirati Leaders

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Our grateful thanks, once again, to our partner sponsors

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To get involved in research or help with Emiratization: Email [email protected] or call

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