{"id":7205,"date":"2019-01-21T20:34:15","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T16:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=7205"},"modified":"2019-01-21T20:34:15","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T16:34:15","slug":"uae-leading-mena-for-global-talent-for-4th-straight-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2019\/01\/21\/uae-leading-mena-for-global-talent-for-4th-straight-time\/","title":{"rendered":"UAE leading MENA for global talent for 4th straight time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UAE is ranked 1st regionally and 19th globally in the 2019 Global Talent Competitiveness Index report, published by the Paris-based graduate business school INSEAD.<\/p>\n<p>For the fourth straight time, the UAE came ahead of MENA countries in the report &#8211; a comprehensive annual index that measures how countries and cities grow, attract and retain talent, providing a unique resource for decision makers to understand the global talent competitiveness picture and develop strategies for boosting their competitiveness.<\/p>\n<p>The report hailed the UAE&#8217;s consistent efforts to be among the key world nations in attracting and unleashing talent, and providing conducive environment for skilled cadres.<\/p>\n<p>The rankings were measured by six pillars: enable, attract, grow, retain, vocational training skills and general knowledge skills. The UAE was particularly strong in the \u2018attract\u2019 pillar, having the third-highest score after Singapore and Luxembourg. The report highlighted the country\u2019s impressive skills of external openness, strong vocational and technical skills, and high degrees of employability.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The report&#8217;s results reflect the dedicated efforts made by the country to achieve the UAE National Agenda&#8217;s Objectives by providing an innovation- based environment for local cadres to streamline their access to labour market,&#8221; said Hanan Ahli, Executive Director of the Competiveness Sector at the Federal Competiveness and Statistics Authority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UAE is ranked 1st regionally and 19th globally in the 2019 Global Talent Competitiveness Index report, published by the Paris-based graduate business school INSEAD. For the fourth straight time, the UAE came ahead of MENA countries in the report &#8211; a comprehensive annual index that measures how countries and cities grow, attract and retain &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7206,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7207,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7205\/revisions\/7207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}