Doha: General Director of the Institute of Public Administration of the Civil Service and Government Development Bureau Abdulaziz Saad Al Majali has said that about 16,000 government employees received training in the administrative and specialised tracks, in 744 training programmes, during the first half of 2022.
In an exclusive interview with Qatar News Agency (QNA), Al Majali said the 2022’s comprehensive training plan included 1327 programmes, with 744 of them in administrative and specialist tracks already accomplished within the first half of this year with participation from 16.000 trainees from government facilities.
He indicated the programmes proposed included 877 for the administrative track, 301 for the specialist track, 69 special programmes, and 80 for managerial and supervisory positions, indicating that 56 percent of these programmes were carried out face-to-face, while the remaining 44 percent were presented remotely.
The training plan was launched at the beginning of January, and before introducing the plan, the institute surveyed the training needs of the government facilities that are subject to the Civil Human Resources Law, said Al Majali, adding that workshops were held to train employees from 54 institutions to survey training needs for administrative and specialist tracks.
He further indicated that the current year’s training plan cares for the conditions for employee promotion and the trainees’ needs through multiple options in terms of the schedules and methods of training, highlighting the option of turning face-to-face programmes into distant ones under any circumstances.
There is an agreement with some government institutions to carry out specialist training courses like cyber security in cooperation with the National Cyber Security Agency and internal investigation in collaboration with the University of Qatar and statistical programmes with the Planning and Statistics Authority in addition to carrying out specialist courses that cope with the governmental institutions’ demands, he said.
In the same context, Al Majali added that new programmes were introduced and some existing ones were developed including programmes of CV Formation, Job Interviews, Microsoft Teams, Mawared Sab, Receptionist Supervisor Skills, Institution Digital Editor, Project Management as well as long-term programmes in fields of the internal investigation, result-based strategic planning.
Commenting on the private qualifying programmes for job seekers and new employees, he indicated that the institute gave due care to training new employees owning to the importance of their role and their awareness and involvement in the job market.
He added that they developed a special programme titled “Marhaba” with a focus on developing new employees’ knowledge and providing them key skills for governmental work including training courses on boosting the sense of citizenship, job ethics, the employee’s rights, and duties, behavioral and managerial skills and risks, basic computer skills, archiving skills and others.
Al Majali added that the institute launched a training course for job seekers registered on the Kawader platform titled “The Art of CV Creation and Success in Job Interview” aimed at enhancing job seekers’ opportunities to find adequate work, noting that the programme was repeated for 76 times in the general training plan for 2022.
Regarding the training programmes during the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, he explained that all training programmes will be carried out remotely during the tournament, and only in the morning, to take into account traffic congestion and the reception of guests and fans at the tournament.
