Saudi oil giant Aramco and King King Abdul Aziz University (KAAU) have concluded on Wednesday a three-day forum under the theme “Saudi Aramco and more career opportunities.” Abdullah Muhraji, Dean of Students' Affairs at KAAU, had established the forum with help from a number of KAAU professors, as well as Aramco staff who participated in the forum. Muhraji told the Saudi Gazette the forum aims to help students find out more about the company's activities, such as oil and gas production, directly from a number of the company's experts. He said the forum is also a good place to interview students who wish to join the company. He added Aramco plays a very important and effective role in absorbing young Saudis into the oil and minerals industry, giving them better chances to join its several branches in the Kingdom's provinces, in addition its important role in developing the Kingdom's industrial base. “Our national economy has developed because of Aramco's efforts, and its role as the main source of energy in the whole world,” said Muhraji. He added that Aramco had made of the Saudi citizen a pillar of industrial development. “There are 26 specialists in KAAU, and around 110 thousand students that may bring good news about the Kingdom's future,” he said. Khaled Abou-Ras, Saudi Assignment Manager at Aramco, said the event was held because of Aramco's concern to find as many ways as possible to contact university students and give them more chances to resist unemployment. The event coincides with Aramco's 75th anniversary year. For all that time, Aramco has always supported young Saudis to find more job opportunities and to give them more training courses, he said. Dr. Abdulrahman Al-Habib, Students Affairs officer at King Abdul Aziz University, said the Kingdom's goal is to qualify young Saudis and train them to become capable enough to develop the Kingdom's industry base. “We are trying our best to graduate the perfect staff that go with the market's requirements,” he said. “We know that achieving such goals is considered a very difficult equation, so we put several plans, improvement programs, as well as start a program to qualify the students and to train them according to the market's requirements.” According to Habib, Aramco is the first company that has achieved such requirements, such as preparing the syllabus regarding the market's plans, rules and needs. __
