Ooredoo embraces young Kuwaiti talents

Ooredoo embraces young Kuwaiti talents

KUWAIT: The pandemic has swept across the world in 2020 and continued for a year and a half, leaving havoc in its wake. More than any event in memory, the pandemic has been a global event. On every continent, households have felt its devastation – joblessness and lockdowns, infirmity and death. In addition, an abiding, relentless fear.

This has posed some challenges to Kuwaiti youth job seekers, especially with the negative impact on many sectors in the country during the lockdowns or permanent cessation that some private sector’s companies suffered from. They could not continue providing their services or products to their customers during that period. This resulted in a huge loss, rationing of expenses, or even the elimination of some jobs, and eventually laying off a number of employees. The telecom sector was one of those sectors in the country that was affected by the consequences of the pandemic.

Long-term strategy

However, despite all that, Ooredoo Telecom, the first to introduce innovative digital services in Kuwait, and thanks to its efficient crisis management’s long-term strategy, managed to set the perfect example in how to control the crisis and took the initiative to support the national economy and society as a whole in