An excuse for locals to go on shopping and suspect trips to western capitals or a master class in doing what is right. You decide.
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Hiring process does not matter, be more concerned about the termination process.
I had three interviews for my role and they were over the phone. After the job offer, I then waited over eighteen months to revieve the contesct requisition, then see and send back my contract to await for the green light to fly to Dammam.
On my first full day I had a meeting with the manager and team. The job, the task expected of ne and what I was expected to suddenly changed.
Crazy!
I can't blame them, this poor people rised with cr-ppy water and breathing more cr-ppy air, it is outstanding any cognitive function. Plus a culture with the moral values of middle age. If you want to try, try it, this forum is not longer usefull, expats knows will be layoff at any time under any circumstances, new hires are not longer Western expats and locals have more not to be worried with the impossible goals to achieve under 2030 vision.
Years ago they made me attend a training to conduct interviews and they even threw in a piece about biases. I had to laugh because it was so bad. I don't think anyone in my group understood what the word bias even meant. Shouldn't the diversity people be doing that? Anyway, it was clear no one took it seriously. We all knew no expat was going to go conduct interviews, so no idea why we were there.
You need not apply if you are hard working, humble, smarter than the avg al sandi (<90), and especially if you have a wisp of inspiration for greater things for yourself, your family (they will suffer in ways you won’t recognize until it is too late), or your work. It is the only organization (it is not a company) I encountered in petro that the old saying reigns: people don’t quit a company, they quit a supervisor. Leadership. Here. Is. The. Worst. The worst that most new employees, non pray rag and non beef idol employees, have and will ever encounter. Local leaders, obviously. If you don’t believe this post just spend an hour reading the archives here. The few non local and non subcons (indipaks) that rise to supervisory roles by willingly eating their handlers’ fe--s are even worse as these are people who would never hold a leadership role in a non tribal country. And they grip that position at aramco through back stabbing and betrayal of their fellow yellow carded iqama holders marked other religion. They have willingly flushed their soul and pride to serve the bottom dwellers of the world. Don’t go. More than any other time in the history of this state run funder of same genes projects, it is not worth it. Pay, benefits, treatment inside and outside of aramco confines, discrimination, physical and mental working conditions, living conditions (might as well live in Middle East hole town or an African village - some are now better than the camps), camp activities outside of local and sharia d-mb runs, etc have all fallen off sharply. There is no sign of improvement. When the obvious decline started in 2016 and flashed again in 2020 we convinced ourselves that it was just a cycle like those cycles of hiring/firing before. But even the half way decent local talent abandons this floating tu-d in the polluted gulf waters for better jobs. There is no sign that this govt ran crammed cubicle rat maze will return to a good place to work. Don’t bother. Most of the real oilfield workers that came from generations that built the industry, none of which are from this part of the world as these wandering herders can only copy or steal, have already left.
@kz I used to be part of those interviews > was told my standards were "unrealistic" and "too much" (I guess too high) & set aside . The whole place is such a joke. Leaving soon this horrendous mediocre sh
Each interview is a joke and all i can hope is that one day they get to learn better standards. C'mon most of you're all unemployable
oh yeah they love this sh--e...typically it is given as a present for some d-mb presentation or an incentive that adds 0 value to anything if not the opposite...and then when they are finally there they cannot properly enjoy anything...running around looking for halal food and drinking tea...waste of a trip.
The best part of these interviews is being asked to phone in to actually ask the technical questions and rate the candidates. The directors all look jet-lagged (hungover) and really don't contribute anything positive except to scare away any qualifed people.