Meeting Activity
Simulated Meeting Assignment
Topic to be discussed: Emiratization
Date of Meeting: Sunday 18th
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.
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.
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.
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