Latest statistics from the Public Authority for Manpower (PAM) shows that during the first nine months of the year, the number of Kuwaitis working in the private sector increased to 73,810. This figure reveals an almost 5 percent hike from the number of citizens who joined the private sector in 2018 and marks the third year in a row that the figures have been rising. Statistics from PAM show that the number of citizens joining private sector jumped from 66,714 in 2016 to 69,508 in 2017, and 70,668 in 2018.
Explaining the steady increase in Kuwaitis opting to join the private sector, PAM said that the policy of allocating a ratio for the number of Kuwaitis to be employed in the private sector firms had contributed in effectively increasing those numbers over the past three years. The authority added that great efforts were being exerted to guide new graduates to various job opportunities in private companies, through exhibitions and specialized workshops designed to change the attitude of citizens to working in the private sector.
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