Qatar has increasingly become home to educated and professionally qualified women, yet they are unable to join the mainstream workforce, according to Global Women Qatar (GWQ).
In view of this, GWQ is holding a major conference ‘How Women Find Work’ on Monday at Grand Hyatt, offering inspiration, motivation and practical tools to achieve success in Qatar’s job market.
With its steady growth and development, Qatar has now increasingly become home to educated women, who are either nationals or expats who have followed their spouses to build a new life here. However, owing to lack of understanding of the local job market, many of these, though equipped with relevant, transferrable skills, are unable to join the workforce, a spokesperson of GWQ said.
She said preparations are currently underway for the third How Women Find Work Conference (HWFWC), which will be held next week. Tajmeel - Qatar International Beauty Academy - has agreed to sponsor the conference this year.
“We support How Women Work (HWW), because we think HWW is doing a great job in providing and guiding women from all levels and nationalities, in pursuing their careers here in Qatar,” Danielle Duttenhofer, managing director, GWQ, said.
The HWFWC was founded to empower this talent powerhouse of women who are either not working currently, are between jobs or in the process of reinventing their career.
The conference aims to provide insight into finding work, getting noticed by employers and tapping into Qatar’s job market. This is delivered through hands-on workshops to explore strategies like goal setting, developing confident interviewing skills, networking opportunities; forum discussions on relevant topics and advice on how to tap into one’s strengths, among others.
