Outsized – the talent-on-demand platform reveals the skills most in demand in the MENA region in 2022

Outsized – the talent-on-demand platform reveals the skills most in demand in the MENA region in 2022

Dubai, UAE — Outsized, a talent-on-demand platform, has seen a surge of independent skilled consultants signing up to the platform and an increase in demand from enterprises moving to more agile and flexible workforce models. The findings uncovered in the Talent-on-Demand 2022 report, based on proprietary data collected from Outsized’s platform, summarize thousands of data points on client demand and talent skills. The findings from the report also revealed the Middle East as one of the fastest growing regions in terms of growth in the new freelance economy.

As the MENA region continues to consciously move away from oil dependence digital transformation and automation are taking center stage and are being widely hailed as the Fourth Industrial Revolution — along with data being christened as the ‘new oil’. Governments are investing significantly in skills development and infrastructure to support this move. One of the initiatives implemented by the government termed UAE Industry 4.0, aims to transform UAE into a globally competitive, productive, and sustainable sector at the cutting edge of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

To run an agile organization and to succeed in highly competitive markets, businesses need to have a sharper focus on skillset management. To achieve this, organizations are taking