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Why so many Jordanians with engineering degrees are not practising as engineers? And what can they do to find opportunities in thier feild of expertise?

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Question added by Salma Fakih , Architect , -
Date Posted: 2016/03/21
Md Fazlur Rahman
by Md Fazlur Rahman , Procurement Specialist , Engineering and Planning Consultants Ltd

Thanks for invitation.

Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in Engineering is just broad based degree like other BS/BA degrees. When the country gets Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) or there are some other growth sectors like oil, Real Estate or tourism, the employment opportunity of Engineers goes up and the reverse is true. So, if there is no employment opportunity in growth sectors, the engineers shall search and take opportunity in other industry or profession like marketing, sales, Operations, Administration etc. in order to contribute productively in the economy.  You may see lot of people working in the Banks with degrees in Arts or Sciences and only a few may be having degree in Commerce or Business or Banking. 

Finally, macroeconomic issues like GDP growth, inflation and employment is the political commitment of the Govt. and Engineers as a community may influence the process of employment creation for all through Political Commitment of the Govt.

Ahmed Mohamed Ayesh Sarkhi
by Ahmed Mohamed Ayesh Sarkhi , Shared Services Supervisor , Saudi Musheera Co. Ltd.

sorry i'm not expert on this field

 

Jihad Mahmoud AlQatamin
by Jihad Mahmoud AlQatamin , Quality control engineer , Lafarge-Holcim

there are no many jobs opportunities due to the economic conditions in the country . also a huge number of engineering students are getting graduated every year . 

Yaqoub Alomar
by Yaqoub Alomar , Civil Engineer , Al-Zubeir municipality

Economic situation of the country is imposing these things, by the way here in Iraq and I think in many Arab countries, gets the same thing

Ghada Eweda
by Ghada Eweda , Medical sales hospital representative , Pfizer pharmaceutical Plc.

Agree with expert answer given by Mr. Fazlur Rahman. Thank you 

براء الغرايبة
by براء الغرايبة , مهندس ميكانيك , مقاولات

You must become the best among the Jordan Engineers

د Waleed
by د Waleed , Management - Leadership-Business Administration-HR&Training-Customer Service/Retention -Call Center , Multi Companies Categories: Auditing -Trade -Customer service -HR-IT&Internet -Training&Consultation

In addition to the answers I would like to add that the reasons could be because of:

1. Unclear coordination between education and labor ministries

2. Lack of consultancy and guidance

3. Yielding towards different careers

 

 

A guidance program in labor market and governmental support should help in solving such problem !

 

Thank You

 

Ahmed Bakar
by Ahmed Bakar , Customer Service Manager - Order Fulfillment Coordinator, Ecommerce , Al Futtaim Group

it depends on open vacancies' and opportunities in the country, once they cant find their opportunities they can look at another countries which can offer a lot of open vacancies for engineering like gulf countries because they have continues growth in their market   

Hamada Sarhan
by Hamada Sarhan , Production Manager , BED Quarter-Sudair-Riydah

Thanks Agree with Mr fazlur

Ayoob Ahamed
by Ayoob Ahamed , Calibration and Field Service Engineer , Endress and Hauser

If one is passionate about what he learned and keep on trying definitely he is going to excel in that field.

Apologized for the answer, I do not know, I leave the answer to the specialists.

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