Qatargas Participates at Fourth Annual QCF in Doha

“Change Your Future, Join the largest LNG producer in the world, Qatargas and, Change the World” is the message Qatargas, is communicating in its media campaign to aspiring Qatari graduates and job seekers at this, the fourth Annual Qatar Career Fair (QCF), held from 10-14 April at Doha Exhibition Centre.

The QCF is an annual event organised jointly by Qatar Foundation, Qatar Petroleum, the Amiri Diwan, Qatar University and the Ministry of Labour.

Commenting on Qatargas’ participation in QCF 2011, Mr. Ghanim Al-Kuwari, Qatargas Chief Operating Officer – Administration on the opening day said: “For Qatargas this important annual event allows us to showcase the outstanding employment and career development opportunities offered by the world’s largest LNG producing company, Qatargas. Our presence at this Fair is a part of our Qatarization strategy, enabling us to meet and recruit qualified Qatari nationals in line with our commitment to ensuring Qatari participation in all areas of our company.”

Explaining Qatargas’ strap line for this year’s QCF “Change Your Future, Change the World” he added: “Change brings a chance to forge a career with us – the recognised LNG industry leader. Change means facing challenges with innovation. Change can lead to a cleaner more efficient source of energy for the world. At Qatargas we continue to strive to excel in the caliber of our people, our innovation, our operating excellence and our corporate citizenship support. We will continue to look for people who meet these qualities and are willing to innovate and change. These people will join us on our 2015 journey, to meet our vision to become the premier LNG company.”

On the process of recruiting Qatari nationals at the fair, Abdul Aziz Mohammed Al Mannai, Human Resources Manager, Qatargas, said:”This is an important platform for us and National job seekers will be welcomed at the Qatargas pavilion by a team from our various professional backgrounds. They will take the details of interested candidates. All resumes will be reviewed and recorded for further follow up.”

Qatargas has packaged is benefits into a campaign of 12 reasons to join … supporting this concept Abdul Aziz added: “We are offering 12 reasons to the candidates to make the change they are aspiring for. These include the (1) the attraction of working at the world’s largest LNG producer whose vision is to be the world’s premier LNG Company by 2015 and (2) which operates four of the world’s largest LNG production trains in the world, each with a production capacity of 7.8 million tonnes per annum (MTA). Other reasons include the (3) employees’ access to world-class shareholder expertise, (4) project exposure, (5) competitive package, (6) internship, (7) safe working environment, (8) shareholder attachments, (9) competency-based development, (10) the opportunity to provide confidential feedback on the company’s national development programmes and recommend changes and modifications through the Development Committee for Nationals (DCFN), (11) open communication on training and development with the management through the CEO Forum, and (12) the rewards and recognition system.”

He added: “Qatargas is committed to the development of local talent, enabling young nationals to achieve their fullest potential. One avenue for them is through a Competency-based Development Program which focuses on progressing national graduates to the point at which they become fully qualified professionals. Qatargas has also developed a system for rewarding and recognising nationals for special contributions, including: Best National under Development Awards; Best Graduate Awards; and Scholarship Bonuses. I want to conclude by saying that Qatargas is proud to deliver one of Qatar’s most precious natural resources to the world, we have played a significant role in positioning Qatar as the world leader in LNG.”

Qatargas has already initiated several programmes to support the development of Qatari national workforce:

– The company has introduced a high quality national development program in order to meet its business objectives in this area. All efforts are utilised in developing the recruits and opportunities are provided for short and long terms external assignments with Qatargas’ shareholders, vendors, or Project Expansion teams within Qatargas.

– The company as part of its national development program also offers scholarship to various Bachelor Degree programs in the best universities/colleges overseas and in Qatar.

– In addition to the scholarship program, Qatargas offers development through a TAFE program for Operators and Technicians, and the Clerical and Security Guard Preparatory Programs for non-technical national candidates.

– Qatargas supports the Ministry of Education’s annual overseas English language program for young Qatari students.

– The company sponsors the Chair of Engineering at Qatar University as part of its support to the aspiring Qatari professionals.

– Qatargas also offers a series of summer internships for local school and university students in a bid to acquaint young nationals with practical work experience as a prelude to embarking on a lifetime career.

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Source: Qatargas, April 11, 2011;