The Career Unit and the Alumni Affairs organized a series of introductory booths on the Arabic and global freelancing platforms, to introduce the permanent and temporary job opportunities available in the Arabic and global countries.
These continued booths for eight days aimed at encouraging senior students to have an interest in the freelancing platforms and benefiting from the free training opportunities that the Freelancing Laboratory at the Career Unit affords. This training helps reduce the burden of unemployment by entering the global labor market. It is worth mentioning that this project is supported by the Projects Unit at the university and funded by the EU Reach Project.
These events were done by introducing full explanations to the students at their colleges by organizing introductory booths at every college at the University. Through these events, students learned about many platforms such as; Mostql, UpWork, Freelancer, ShoghlOnline, tasmeemME, Behance, Monjz, Soundeals, Ureed, Souq fann, and many others that consider as an intermediary between the job seeker and the employee.
The students also learned about how to benefit financially from working in these platforms by following the basic and needed steps as registering on the platform, feeding the profile with the needed information about the student’s experience next to posting a summary for the practical experience that the student has in the field of the desired work.
During these introductory meetings, the importance of the global trend to work from home -which constitutes a qualitative shift in the history of global work- that allows workers to work at any time they want of the day, without the need for transportation, obtaining travel visas or being away from their families, was also emphasized. It was stressed also on the point of the investment of Palestinian girls in this global trend, whose circumstances do not allow them to travel abroad to search for better job opportunities.