UAE: TikTok rolls out educational content to prepare youth for future jobs

UAE: TikTok rolls out educational content to prepare youth for future jobs

Informative videos will give them insights into emerging fields

Published: Thu 26 May 2022, 8:59 PM

Students and the youth in the UAE can better equip themselves by learning about future jobs in the booming fields of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Product Development, Green Economy, People and Culture, Digital Marketing amongst others.

This follows after the short-video format app, TikTok announced that is rolling out nascent videos aimed at empowering the region’s youth with workforce readiness, financial literacy, and entrepreneurship.

Seeding a whole ecosystem of educational content, TikTok is releasing a series of bite-sized educational videos that will showcase jobs of the future, encouraging the youth to explore these growing fields, in collaboration with INJAZ.

To amplify the “Future Jobs Initiative” program, the video-snippet channel has brought together a group of key opinion leaders who currently hold coveted future jobs at companies including Microsoft, McKinsey, and MetLife, to create a series of informative videos which will be available on the platform.

During a press conference on Tuesday, at Dubai Studio City, Talal Al Fayez, Head of Public Policy, TikTok MENAT said, “By releasing these videos that start today, we aim to help communities thrive and inspire the new generation of entrepreneurs and change makers to be active