High unemployment among graduates: Half of the engineers are unemployed

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[size=52]High unemployment among graduates: Half of the engineers are unemployed[/size]

[size=45]Dhi Qar / Hussein Al-Amel
[size=45]Government and professional bodies in the province of Dhi Qar expressed concern about the high rates of unemployment among graduates, while noting the registration of more than 50 thousand graduates unemployed[/size]
[size=45]Of the 250 thousand unemployed registered within the database in the section of lighting, the Engineers Union in Dhi Qar that half of its engineers are unemployed from the 6,000 engineers registered in the union there are 3 thousand engineers unemployed. "The problem of the absence of job opportunities is a general problem, but the Engineers Syndicate has a specificity. In Dhi Qar, half of the engineers are unemployed," said Ahmed Shada Awad, head of the engineering branch in Dhi Qar. "There are 3,000 unemployed engineers out of 6,000 registered engineers in the Engineers Syndicate," he said. "This is a very large number that can not be absorbed by the labor market in the province."[/size]

[size=45]Awad explained that "the number of engineers in Dhi Qar increases annually by 200 to 250 engineers with one of the specialties of engineering and that the availability of jobs annually does not exceed five degrees of employment in all government departments operating in the province," stressing "the absence of planned planning in proportion to the number of graduates With the need of the local market of academic, professional and technical specialties. "[/size]
[size=45]Abizaid said the head of the branch of the Engineers Syndicate that "the government agencies do not have a real study on the need for the labor market, the output of the universities are not commensurate with the actual need for this market and this is reflected on all graduates and not engineers only," noting that " To create an army of the unemployed. "[/size]
[size=45]"The presence of this huge number of graduates and the graduation of thousands annually from private and government universities will generate great momentum and tremendous pressure on both social and economic levels," he said.[/size]
[size=45]On the required solutions, the head of the branch of the Engineers Syndicate said that "effective solutions can only be found through the adoption of a strategic study by the Ministry of Planning, the Ministry of Higher Education and the Ministry of Finance on the need of the market and the ministries of graduates and work to adopt an ambitious plan to provide them with employment opportunities. Mohandeseen also calls for activating the role of the private sector and activating the wheel of the national economy so that it can provide sufficient employment opportunities to accommodate unemployed graduates and calls for the support of graduates more by providing soft loans that enable them to open their own productive projects. He stressed the need to take into account the engineering specialties that do not have employment opportunities in the private sector, especially oil and chemical fields, which do not have employment opportunities except through government sectors.[/size]

[size=45]Pointing out that "the Engineers Syndicate has recently been organizing development courses that enable engineers to obtain international certificates that allow them to compete more in the labor market," pointing out that "foreign companies not only Iraqi certificate, but require certificates of experience or certificates of special training courses We have worked to provide these certificates through cooperation with international organizations. "[/size]
[size=45]"The Syndicate of Engineers in Dhi Qar, as part of its contribution to providing job opportunities for unemployed engineers, started the procedures of establishing a coveted company for engineers and is currently in the process of completing the administrative and legal procedures in the Ministry of Planning," he said. "Through this company we aspire to promote the economic reality For the engineer where the priority will be in the work of this company for engineers who do not have. "[/size]

[size=45]"The Engineer, who did not get a job opportunity will achieve a financial return through the purchase of shares of the company as the share price of one thousand dinars," likely to contribute to the company's covalent work to strengthen the financial capabilities of engineers.[/size]
[size=45]"The company is expected to announce the IPO as soon as possible, and it will be a strong competitor in the labor market as it will be a solid company with efficient engineering management that has the scientific competence and engineering expertise to make the work more concrete and conform to the required engineering specifications."[/size]
[size=45]For his part, said the official of the labor and social affairs in the province of Dhi Qar, Mohammed Abdul Sattar Ghazi of the extent that "the operating section in Dhi Qar registered about 50,000 graduates unemployed in Dhi Qar out of the 250 thousand unemployed registered within the database," stressing that "the presence of graduates Unemployed with a master's degree and a bachelor's degree, including 3 thousand engineers of different disciplines. "[/size]

[size=45]He pointed out that "the universities and colleges annually graduate thousands of graduates and different disciplines, but without exercising their competencies due to lack of employment opportunities," noting that "the number of unemployed who have been provided employment opportunities through the operating section does not exceed four thousand opportunities over the past years, Noting that "the government departments did not cooperate with the Department of Labor on the appointment of unemployed and does not rely on the database of unemployed registered in the Department of Labor."[/size]
[size=45]Calling for government departments that have opportunities to appoint and vacant grades to the adoption of the database of unemployed registered in the work section and appointment according to precedence and jurisdiction, "noting that" the database includes all the specialties and that the unemployed have been registered for several years and are in dire need of a job opportunity " . The Directorate of Labor and Social Affairs in the province of Dhi Qar revealed on Tuesday (25 June 2019) the registration of 250 thousand unemployed, including more than 50 thousand graduates, while confirming the lack of cooperation between the government departments with the Labor Department on the appointment of unemployed, indicated that the number of unemployed Who have been recruited in the private and public sectors over the past years do not exceed 4,000 unemployed.[/size]
[size=45]The province of Dhi Qar during the last years a series of demonstrations led by graduates unemployed to demand jobs and employment in government departments or include the grant of the social protection network.[/size]


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