The compulsory transition to remote work has reduced many years of the life of the inevitable shift that economists were predicting. The world suddenly woke up and was forced into a digital transition due to Covid-19.
Despite the challenges of the digital transition in some MENA countries and the rising rates of unemployment, most professionals are enthusiastic about 2023, with 91 percent saying so in a recent study by Bayt.com, the largest job site in the region, headlined “New Year’s Goals in the Middle East and North Africa for 2023.”
By 2023, 88 percent of people will have reported making resolutions. Although 79 percent of respondents said they were happy with their professional and personal development in 2022, most professionals in the region will concentrate on improving aspects that directly impact their quality of life, with 63 percent saying that saving money was the most important personal goal pursued.
Eighteen percent want to work out more and eat healthier in the next year; fourteen percent want to spend more time socializing with loved ones; and five percent hope to take more trips in the coming year.
Interestingly, most respondents have faith in their commitment to success; 31 percent think they’ve accomplished all of their 2022 goals, and 35 percent say they’ve completed most of them.
Local professionals give much thought to how they might advance their careers in the new year, setting lofty New Year’s resolutions as a means to that end.
Five-sixths of respondents want to find a new job, twenty-one percent wish to acquire new skills, twenty percent want to advance professionally or financially, and only three percent wish to enhance relationships with coworkers and superiors.
Seventy-four percent of the employed population is exploring a career shift. Also, in 2023 when you’re looking for a new job.
Many factors will be necessary for professionals:
- Thirty-one percent will be looking for ways to advance in their careers.
- Twenty-five percent will be trying to strike a good work-life balance.
- Twenty-five percent will try to find more adaptable ways to get their job done.
- Twenty percent will be trying to make as much money as possible.
Sixty-nine percent of respondents use online job boards, eighteen percent use company websites, nine percent use social networking sites, and four percent use online job fairs to find jobs.
Fifty-three percent also emphasized the needs they anticipate from employers, such as increased opportunities for training and education (20 percent), higher pay (15 percent), more feedback and support (12 percent), and more adaptable scheduling (12 percent).
Work Environment
After the pandemic, most employees have high hopes that remote hiring will grow in the coming years and prefer working for businesses that provide some degree of remote work. At the same time, a wide range of abilities that job seekers need to emphasize while looking for work, like flexibility and the capacity to adapt to change, the ability to work without supervision, and self-motivation, in addition to possessing strong written and verbal communication abilities, familiarity with virtual work technologies, and self-discipline.