The Dubai Expat Diaries

Construction companies in Dubai have a bad wrap. They poor reputations stem from appalling working conditions for labourers teamed with long hours, withholding workers passports and bad pay – if any pay at all.

It’s not surprising workers are now saying no to UAE working conditions and returning to their own countries for recruitment.

The UAE’s construction boom however, is unyielding. It desperately needs engineering expertise and construction labour to complete projects on time and meet the government’s ambitious plans for an increasing population. The recruitment drive is on going and in order to fill positions and consequently meet these deadlines, construction companies need to take a good look at how they treat their workers.

Recruitment agencies to the rescue!

One area that seems to be helping to improve construction and engineering standards in the UAE are specialized recruitment companies.

These companies have first hand knowledge of how engineering and construction companies operate and act as a middle man between the employer and employee.

These recruitment middle men can represent a unified stance for the construction and engineering workers on their books. If workers continue to use recruitment agents, the recruitment agents can act as something like a union, ensuring standards are being met and implementing processes to control pay and working conditions.

For recruitment companies in Dubai, the buck doesn’t stop when the candidate starts the job. They should act as supporters throughout the first few months for both the employee and employer, ensuring the relationship is healthy and thus ensuring continued business.

Engineering and construction recruitment agency to watch

Concur Consultants is probably the most successful construction and engineering recruitment agency in Dubai. Their success is down to a number of attributes:

Concur base their business model around corporate social responsibility – where reputation is everything in the Middle East, this is a key driver to their continued business success.

The owners and all the employees of Concur are ex engineers and know first hand the pro’s and con’s of the engineering and construction market in Dubai. Their clients include Dubai land, the Palm and various other commercial and residential projects.

They provide detailed advice on how to fast track career and knowing the industry, they give a good insight into what a good project manager, designer etc would be, matching clients to candidates accurately.

For candidates they can share their first hand knowledge of the industry with advice on housing, living costs, advice on schooling for kids and information packs for the families. Concur only recruit for Dubai currently but are due to expand across the middle east in the near future.

About Concur Consultants

Concur Consultants are the largest engineering and construction Recruitment Company in Dubai. The company sources engineering and construction jobs for the major engineering and construction companies in Dubai. In the past two years Concur have placed hundreds of people into Construction and Engineering jobs in the Middle East.

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