Midhyaf programme continues to empower national competencies across various disciplines

  • Date: 08-Jun-2022
  • Source: Times of Oman
  • Sector:Tourism
  • Country:Oman
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Midhyaf programme continues to empower national competencies across various disciplines

Reflecting the Group's ongoing commitment to create national competencies, the highly specialised training for employment programme, Midhyaf, continues to succeed in empowering the national youth and enhancing their capacities to accomplish development in the tourist sector in numerous disciplines. The program, which was launched in collaboration with the Ministry of Labour by Oman Tourism Development Company (OMRAN Group), is intended to accommodate young Omani talents, develop their skills and abilities, and provide them with the qualifications they need to work in the lucrative tourism sector. Attesting to Midhyaf's success, a total of 111 trainees from six professional disciplines completed specialized courses, which are offered at Oman Tourism College (OTC). This comes under the first phase of the programme before they start their on-the-job training programmes in the group's hotels. Meanwhile, an additional 24 trainees under the culinary programme are scheduled to complete their specialized courses in July, following which they will also take up on-the-job training at select hotels until the end of October to continue with their careers. Commenting on the programme's updates, Hashil bin Obaid Al Mahrouqi, CEO of OMRAN Group, stated, "Midhyaf programme reflects OMRAN Group's keen interest in investing in local talent development, which in turn