Hiring Up

The number of Tunisians recruited during the first four months of 2012 to work abroad reached 564 against 355 in 2011 and 380 in 2010, according to a statement of the Tunisian Agency for Technical Cooperation (ATCT) arrived yesterday to TAP.Among those recruited, 95 are first-time jobseekers. 

The total number of volunteer experts and Tunisian expatriates amounted, therefore, to 11,615 with the management of social and administrative career is provided by the ATCT.In the first four months of 2012, the ATCT received 94 job offers, emanating in particular from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait and the UAE.

These offers are almost 1700 posts in various specialties. The main recruitment affected the health field with 155 recruited, Trade and Marketing (94 recruits), Sports and Physical Education (81 recruits), and administration (69 recruits).The statement stressed that the number of Tunisians registered in the bank bid ATCT has reached 10,330 candidates including 1,819 first-time jobseekers, a new direction taken by the ATCT to ensure better employability in this category Young Tunisians and provide employment opportunities abroad.The statement indicated that in addition to the placement of Tunisian competences abroad, ATCT shall, within the framework of South-South cooperation, dispatch of experts and consultants to carry out technical assistance missions with recipient countries, and organizing training sessions and study tours to Tunisia for the benefit of Arab and African executives in collaboration with the best centers in Tunisia.

In the first four months of 2012, the Agency conducted six training sessions for the benefit of 92 executives from different countries, including the Sultanate of Oman, Cameroon, Burkina Faso, Mauritania and Morocco.She has deployed 14 Tunisian experts abroad to perform technical assistance missions in several specialties.  

Amal Derbali

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