Simulated Meeting Description, Agenda and Reflection

Meeting Activity

Simulated Meeting Assignment

Topic to be discussed: Emiratization

Date of Meeting:  Sunday 18^th of March 2012

Time of meeting: 8:00 am

Venue: Research and Innovation Centre

Group Members:

Chairman: Abdulqader

Secretary: Nabil Luqman

Participant: Ahmed Saleh

Preparation:

Grouping of chairs and a round table.

Agenda:

Emiratization

The negative effects, of not providing enough information to students, targeting the private sector as well as the public.

The restrictions caused by this lack of information to fresh graduates seeking jobs.

How can we solve this issue and what measures need to be taken to combat this rising issue.

 Topic Description:

Recent statistics and studies have shown how the public sector job vacancies are quickly being taken by fresh graduates every year. This will prove to be a great problem for fresh graduates from institutions such as HCT in the near future; how so?

Most Emirati graduates target the public sector in their search for jobs, due to benefits, salaries etc… but what if a job is unavailable? The private sector is at large and growing at an incredible pace, but due to the lack of information, many would believe the private sector is a far cry from the public sector’s many strengths.

 In this meeting, we wish to provide a number of ideas as well as solutions, to help soon-to-be graduates know the differences between the public and private sectors, along with a great number of advantages and disadvantages.

 The Meeting:

Time of meeting: 8:33 am

At 8:33 am, The Chairman, Abdulqader, called the meeting to order. Abdulqader brought the topic to hand and addressed myself, Nabil Luqman, and our colleague, Ahmed Saleh, on the rising issue of Emiratization.

Many points were brought to light, issues as well as solutions.

Abdulqader explained how it’s very difficult for the public sector to accommodate all fresh graduates, from institutions such as HCT; the number of vacancies against the number of graduates are inversely proportional.

Mr. Hedley asked questions portraying the competition between the private and public sectors. We answered Mr. Hedley with an explanation of how the current lack of information on the private sector, is putting many graduates at a standstill.

The lack of stability was mentioned; the public sector may have more benefits, but lacks the ability to take in all graduates seeking jobs, hence, a solution is required, the private sector, not unemployement.

Before the end of the meeting, we discussed the matter with Mr. Hedley, summarizing the whole meeting and all points covered.

Abdulqader called an end to the meeting at 9:11 am.

End of meeting: 9:11 am

Reflective Writing

Simulated Meeting

Our simulated meeting assignment was quite an interesting experience. My group consisted of 3 members, Abdulqader, Ahmed Saleh and myself. Our meeting was targeting the issues of Emiratization. Each of us was given a role; I chose to be the secretary in order to be able to both speak and take down notes, Abdulqader was the chairman and Ahmed Saleh was the participant. This simulation gave us the opportunity to speak; both professionally and expressively. In my personal opinion, Ahmed showed a great level of descriptive vocabulary; while Abdulqader showed a great level of expressive vocabulary. We were able to exchange our thoughts, discuss issues/solutions, and were able to confidently address the issue at hand to Mr. Hedley; along with a summary of the whole topic. I would like to conclude, that this was an interesting and productive assignment.

Reflective writing 1

On Sunday, the 19^th of February, we were asked to perform mock interviews by Mr. Hedley, our teacher for this course. The interviewers include a team of three, including Mr. Hedley himself, along with Hammam and Saleh. At the moment, it is exactly 9:18 am and the interviewee is my classmate, Ahmed.  As I have been observing both Hammam and Saleh mostly, I noticed they seem to have some sort of experience in interviewing, either through work or through personal/ academic training. Saleh’s English is excellent, whereas Hammam’s posture and questions carry more…..what are the right words….experience and charisma.

Mr. Hedley is a very interesting interviewer; he doesn’t make the interviewee feel uneasy or nervous, but rather, brings out confidence whilst still maintaining that stern vibe. I’ve noticed that due to the language barrier and multiple English levels in this class, many of my classmates seem to  lack either speech, expression, grammar, vocabulary or a mixture of it all; due to this barrier, it’s quite difficult for them to express exactly what they want to say.

However, my words should not be misunderstood, what I have mentioned above does not deny the fact that ambition, effort and aspiration is an integral part of everyone here.

My interview was rather interesting; Mr. Hedley was a rather comforting and amusing interviewer, but obviously one who observes your body language, english speaking skills and ability to converse effectively in an interview. The other two interviewers, my classmates, whom I am still not familiar with, had good ideas as to what they should ask and im confident I was able to answer all questions without struggling.

It was a very interesting assessment.