SAUDI ARABIAN AIRLINES
SUPPLY MIDDLE CHAIN EAST the best and the brightest from universities from within and outside the Kingdom and we put them through very generous training programmes , some of them extend to two to three years , and we provide them with the necessarily environment to be able to produce and be contributing members of the Saudi Arabian Airlines Group .”
And these opportunities are not restricted to male employees , as Albakri explains : “ We made the decision about eight or nine years ago really to introduce more and more women into our workforce in IT . For instance , our SAP Centre of Excellence is half staffed by young Saudi ladies who have been trained and certified to work with SAP technologies , our entire IT helpdesk is now run by women . And we are expanding our team for mobile and tablet development , with a large number of female staff .” The brightest staff – men and women – are recruited and retained by this impressive approach to staff development , says Albakri . “ The benefits that we offer , the continuous training , the challenges and exciting types of programmes or projects that they are involved on really makes the job very attractive for them to
‘ We made the decision about eight or nine years ago to introduce more and more women into our workforce in IT ’
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