Jobs in Abha

The city is situated in the fertile mountains in the south west of Saudi Arabia. It is a popular tourist destination for the Saudi people. The city is that capital of the Asir province. The city has been for the past few years being advertised as a tourist destination and thus most of jobs that can be found in the city have some link to tourism.

The city has jobs that are part time and full time jobs. The part time jobs can be found during the time of festival but they do not pay much. Tourist consultants, tour guide are some of the jobs that can be found in the city. Tour guides are needed fro tourists that want to go mountain hiking. Engineers, this is a profession where it personnel are in demand, the city has a lot of projects that need engineers to oversee. Firstly there is the cable car that needs constant maintenance, the dams that provide irrigation water for the agriculture areas in the city and there are the roads in the city that are constantly being improved so that the flow of traffic in the city improves.

There is a hospitality school that employs former professionals that used to work in the industry. The health care sector has many facilities that hire many professionals like nurses, doctors, hospital administration staff, janitors and surgeons. The education facilities in the city are quite extensive thus the private institutions in the city teach foreign syllabi and are looking for foreign educators that can part on their knowledge to their young citizens.

The various sporting and musical shows that are staged in the city have jobs such as television presenters, sports players (professionals), grounds men to look after the grounds, coaches, organizers of the shows and the administration staff. The city has a lot of job opportunities for many a people. They are women’s schools, companies and many other institutions that are only for women and what that does is to create employment for women in different jobs but the city still has a restrictive culture on the kind of jobs a woman can do.



Posted by on Dec.01, 2008, under Jobs in Saudi Arabia

1 comment for this entry:
  1. Mohan.M.Musale

    I am a Mechanical Engineer from Bombay,totally 23 years experience in Engineering maint dept. Presently working in Muscat since last 14 years.

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