Kuwait,has been hit by a shortage of skilled manpower, with growing markets in traditional source countries like India offering workers better opportunities.
DUBAI: The Gulf nation of Kuwait, witnessing a surge in its economy, has been hit by a shortage of skilled manpower, with growing markets in traditional source-countries like India offering workers better opportunities.
Experts cite the lack of attractiveness of Kuwait to foreign workers to rising inflation, low salaries, restrictions on work visas and no opportunities for career advancement.
Though expatriates make about 67.9 per cent of Kuwait's total population and 83.1 per cent of the total labor force, thousands of the 2.16 million expats living in the country are menial workers, Kuwait Times said in a report.
According to a study conducted by GulfTalent.com, a leading online recruitment portal, several executives complained that while market demand in the Gulf was extremely healthy, shortages in skills were limiting their companies' abilities to grow.
Though traditionally Asian nationals like Indians are the first choice to fill in executive positions in certain sectors such as IT and banking, many Indians will not move to Kuwait because the Indian economy is booming and they would make more money back home.
"In the banking sector, people from India don't want to move. The sector is already so growing there (in India) and the salaries are lower here (in Kuwait)," Rakhi Tara, a recuritment consultant, said.
"IT is almost the only market which looks for Indians. Other sectors don't look at Asians at all... (However) the salary packages back in India are much better than here in Kuwait," she added.
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