Is it possible that there are those who got laid off during the COVID pandemic and have not yet found an adequate job?
Someone told me that there are such cases, but I'm having a hard time believing it.
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,There is a whole world outside Aramco. Staying there for a long time makes you obsolete (old technology from 80s). Good for nothing. I moved a few years back after 6 y. there and that was right on time before Corona. Do not stay more than 6 y. Not worth it, becoming an ATM to your wife only.
This entire post is Unbelievable Nonsense.
If you said that checking only in LinkedIn, note that we lost as well good colleagues due to Covid. Layoff employees were in high risk doing all the leaving, moving stuff traveling and later on relocating themselves.
And thats why so many people resigning, its much easier to find job now and no need to wait until layoff in the lowest part of the downturn when will be really difficult in all ways.
It is no hard to believe, in which cave you were living during last two years?. Layoffs of the biggest oil company in the world during a global pandemic and with oil industry fighting the highest shunkrage in demand. Just recently industry are recovering jobs motivated by the hight price and young Saudis will have the responsibility to deliver that one million in production increase during next 4 years. Good luck.
My experience at Aramco actually helped me secure a new role back home, it added the international dimension to my experience.
I did though only stay for 2 years and toty understand how one can stagnate being here away from the rest of the world. Probably an optimal time is 2-3 years.
One of my biggest problems since leaving was trying to explain why it took five times longer to perform a task or finish a project that it should have taken.
All the Americans I know either intentionally retired or got new jobs. I don’t know about other nationalities.
The Company recently completed a study that determined that U.S. expats do not have any job-skills advantage over local-hired, new college graduates within the KSA.
Over time, an expat can lose their job skills. Keeping up-to-date credentials is nearly impossible. Many expats do not realize the job-skills loss until they are laid off. They live under a false sense of security that relies on experience only. The Saudi Aramco experience is not valued anywhere outside the KSA.
There are such cases. Longer you work here, harder it gets to find a job in civilised world
Was hard, surprisingly, I found colleagues still working in Aramco in interviews!.
It is possible, for some companies, it is no good have been work in Aramco. Could be a career ki----g move and needs to be considered.
Covid was the toughest time to looking for a job most people takes at least one year and other ones even return to the kingdom as contractors. If you save and invest properly early retirement was an option. Despite resentful feelings to US, still are plenty looking to study here, attend scientific conferences, paid patent fees (thanks for that) and consume our best entertainment shows, food and culture. Oldest problem in Kingdom it is still the same, money doesn't stay and go outside.
That cannot be the case, as plenty of highly-skilled, laid-off U.S. expats landed great-paying positions at Chuckee Cheese.