The rapidly changing job market depends on reliable methods to assess professional performance and skill levels. Through the Qualification Verification Program Saudi Arabia creates better hiring standards to bring global experts into its workforce and build up its hiring system.
What is QVP?
QVP that has been under the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development of KSA aims at the process of verifying educational qualifications of expatriates wishing to work in the Kingdom. Through this program, the job seekers qualify for their respective jobs to minimize cases of omission as far as hiring practices are concerned. Through the use of rigorous verification processes, QVP tries to close the gap between the professional certifications and occupational standards thus improving the market relevance.
Benefits for Job Seekers
When it comes to finding a job in Saudi Arabia, QVP helps expatriates to enter the country’s job market with ease. That is why it reaffirms their academic achievements to meet particular qualifications for their targeted careers. Besides, it helps them get better job prospects and increases their long-term job security. Also, it ensures confidence for expatriates, since they see that their credentials are accepted by other employers.
Advantages for Employers
The various advantages of QVP for employers include; It provides employers with a sound system used to validate workforce credentials. This makes it hard for organizations to recruit and employ unqualified persons, it also boosts organizational performance. Employers will be in a position to hire the right candidate from a pool of certified and competent professional, therefore they are assured of their employees are professional and qualified as required.
Aligning with Saudi Vision 2030
QVP is interconnected with Saudi Arabia’s endeavors to improve recruitment quality and contribute to the Vision 2030. Thus, the program is to develop economic effect in the framework of attracting qualified expatriates to join the Saudi market and to improve the coefficients of Saudization of the work-space in terms of increasing the quality of the workforce. This process shows that the Kingdom is determined to develop the policy of a transparent and effective labor market.
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Qualification Verification Program (QVP
