Kuwait Times, Sunday, Sep 6, 2020 | Muharram 18, 1442
Manpower authority trains youth to join labor market
Kuwait:
The manpower authority’s official spokesperson and public relations
manager Aseel Al-Mazyad said the authority will hold a training course for
senior students titled ‘My Career’ in collaboration with the vocational guidance
department and Injaz Society. Mazyad added that the course is part of the
authority’s strategy to train youth and develop their skills to prepare them for
the labor market.
“The course will be held online via the Zoom application in the period of
September 7 to 9. It will be held for two hours daily from 4 to 6 pm and will be
open to Kuwaitis aged 18 to 24, who will be trained on time management, verbal
and written communication, interviews and the concept of leadership,” she added,
noting that the course will be taught in Arabic.
Field visit
Separately, Minister of Public Works and Minister of State for Housing Affairs
Rana Al-Fares paid a field visit to the East Taima housing project site to
follow up on work progress. Speaking during the visit, where which she met the
housing authority officials and the site manager, Fares said work in the project
was going well according to schedule, stressing that 84 percent of construction
has been concluded so far.
Electronic archive
In other news, Ministry of Electricity and Water’s assistant undersecretary for
power grid affairs Mutlaq Al-Otaibi announced that the ministry plans to
electronically archive the blueprints of all buildings built since 1959. Otaibi
added that this step comes within the ministry’s plans to digitalize all its
services with the aim of facilitating access to building information as well as
various procedures.
“The blueprint unit has so far scanned 70 percent of the blueprints,” he
stressed, noting that the scanned documents include buildings built in the
period between the beginning of the 1990s until 2019, and that the remaining
buildings of the 1960s and 1970s are relatively limited due to the construction
boom at the beginning of the 1990s.