Hmmmn .... although it is not very important but I would like to talk about my interviews & work experience in RG, just for ppl who have negative image about RG. When I was working in a School as PRO, I applied for RG job too. They called me, took my test & I passed. I was offered a job of almost triple the amount I was getting in the school for 3 months temporary basis. I could not see the benefit of working for a big company on temporary basis & leaving my permanent job behind. I refused politely & requested if there is a permanent job I would most happily work there. Btw this position was based in Ras Laffan. For me at that time, temporary or permanent wasnt such a big issue but I personally dislike going on buses & that too for such a far away places. So, my major concern was that I was looking for a place which was not too far for me. This happened in 1999. After 3/4 months I received another call from HR in RG, this time the job again was temporary but it was for 6 months, pay was 1000 extra than the previous one but again in was in RG. Fortunately same day I gave my interview in one of the international banks in Qatar & they offered me a position too. Again the pay packet of the bank & RG had a huge difference, RG was again twice more than that bank package but again because it was temporary for 6 months & that too in Ras Laffan, I refused again politely & requested for permanent job. This happened in the year 2001. After that I continued in that bank for 5 & half years & grew as a person & professionally. But after 8 months in that bank's job, at that time, weekend in Qatar used to be Thursday & Friday & QP & RG used to follow Friday & Saturday. So one fine Saturday, there came a person looking for me & introduced himself to me & said that the two jobs you refused we offered one to Palestinian lady & anothe one to Jordanian lady & after this 3 & 6 months temporary job they were hired permanently & their pay packets were raised too. Although I never regretted not working for RG because money was never the criteria for the selection of job for me but that gentleman tried to make me feel as if I lost something very precious. We parted on happy note & I forgot about this RG. After 5 & half years of work in the bank, there were some problems I started facing so I decided not to continue with the job anymore & those days RG gave out advertisements for job in GT. I too applied & guess what after a week's time got a job call in HR again with a huge pay packet if compared to the bank's pay, but again in Ras Laffan. I spoke to my Manager about this & they created a complete new position for me in order to retain me, this happened in March 2006. Everything went smooth & once again I refused politely saying I looking for a job not as far away as Ras Laffan something within Doha or outside but not too far away. This time I knew they would have black listed me :) because who would take a person as employee who continully refuses RG. Somewhere in October 2006, I started having similar problems again, I would not go into details but for a person like me who takes care of her self-respect, I didnt leave any room for talks & resigned from the bank in November 2006. After that I was relaxing after such a long term of work & hectic routines, joined gym, looked after myself yani i did all those things which I missed during my job tenure because of long schedules. You wont believe in February 2007, I received a call from RG Khartiyat for HR job. Because I was not doing anything at that time plus the place was on 25 mins drive from my home, I went there, gave out the test, Passed it, Had a department interview after a week or two, passed it & in the end had final interview with HR & joined them in April 06 :) I had an unfortunate incident over there during the interview that I was called for a Supervisor's role during the department interview & I was happy but in HR interview they told me because of Qatarization they have taken Qatari fresh graduate for that. I didnt like the idea because I was 9 years experienced & all of a sudden this unprofessional thing happened to me, I expressed my unhappiness over this incident but because the Qatari Manager who was talking to me was so polite & humble, I told him I'll join this uncalled job only because of your good treatment towards a new hire. It was on contract basis for 3 months, & because I was free at that time & the contract was only for 3 months I happily joined. I worked there, proved my mettle, all were happy but some racist things started happening from Canadian supervisor (female), & british supervisor (male) & I was shocked why they are actually trying to compete with me. I was working only as Assistant they were supervisors they should have behaved properly, at the same time the Indian / Hindu supervisor & his Filipino assistant also started behaving very awkward. At first, I just ignored all these because I knew their bio-datas some were recently promoted to supervisors, some assistants who were competing with me were working on the same grade from the last 5/6 years so I didnt pay them a heed. But later on, when the water went up my head I had to show them that who I am, what I was & their attempts to create problems for me could actually put them in problems hehehehehehe :) I enjoyed the looks on their faces :) Later on they were the one who started putting false accusations on me & went to my Qatari Manager. He called me, I told him the whole situation word by word & he was surprised why I didnt come to him if all this was happening, all I said that didnt want to waste his or my time on silly things as both were extremely busy in our projects. Those racists ppl silly things kept on happening, company renewed my contract for another 3 months, time passed by & for the third time when they tried to renew on the same position, I refused to sign & wanted to leave. Prime reason was same racism / bully stuff but that gentleman was really nice to me. He didnt let me go off like that & offered me a job of HR Advisor which is better than HR Assistant & with better pay too but unfortunately that was based in Ras Laffan & I prefer not to sit alongwith crowd in buses but drive myself but because of such a far away distance I thanked him & preferred to stay at home rather than working with such racists & / or working in such a far away place. One thing I would like to mention over here that the Qataris were the only ones who were very polite & respectful to me, The manager, supervisors & the assistants & secretaries all the Qatari staff was very very kind to me & always made me feel strong among these unprofessional bullies.
I wanted to say something :) but wrote on my whole biography hahahaa chee chee. But for the author of this topic I just want to tell you that I too am MBA in Banking & Finance & I was offered jobs in RG at various times, they didnt offer me a job for my MBA but because 'I was qualified / experienced / educated enough for the vacant positions they had to offer' :) If I wasnt I too wouldnt have been called ever. As bleu says, there are so many factors, budget, position, pay etc etc. But right attitude is one trait every employer looks into any possible employee :)
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Hmmmn .... although it is not very important but I would like to talk about my interviews & work experience in RG, just for ppl who have negative image about RG. When I was working in a School as PRO, I applied for RG job too. They called me, took my test & I passed. I was offered a job of almost triple the amount I was getting in the school for 3 months temporary basis. I could not see the benefit of working for a big company on temporary basis & leaving my permanent job behind. I refused politely & requested if there is a permanent job I would most happily work there. Btw this position was based in Ras Laffan. For me at that time, temporary or permanent wasnt such a big issue but I personally dislike going on buses & that too for such a far away places. So, my major concern was that I was looking for a place which was not too far for me. This happened in 1999. After 3/4 months I received another call from HR in RG, this time the job again was temporary but it was for 6 months, pay was 1000 extra than the previous one but again in was in RG. Fortunately same day I gave my interview in one of the international banks in Qatar & they offered me a position too. Again the pay packet of the bank & RG had a huge difference, RG was again twice more than that bank package but again because it was temporary for 6 months & that too in Ras Laffan, I refused again politely & requested for permanent job. This happened in the year 2001. After that I continued in that bank for 5 & half years & grew as a person & professionally. But after 8 months in that bank's job, at that time, weekend in Qatar used to be Thursday & Friday & QP & RG used to follow Friday & Saturday. So one fine Saturday, there came a person looking for me & introduced himself to me & said that the two jobs you refused we offered one to Palestinian lady & anothe one to Jordanian lady & after this 3 & 6 months temporary job they were hired permanently & their pay packets were raised too. Although I never regretted not working for RG because money was never the criteria for the selection of job for me but that gentleman tried to make me feel as if I lost something very precious. We parted on happy note & I forgot about this RG. After 5 & half years of work in the bank, there were some problems I started facing so I decided not to continue with the job anymore & those days RG gave out advertisements for job in GT. I too applied & guess what after a week's time got a job call in HR again with a huge pay packet if compared to the bank's pay, but again in Ras Laffan. I spoke to my Manager about this & they created a complete new position for me in order to retain me, this happened in March 2006. Everything went smooth & once again I refused politely saying I looking for a job not as far away as Ras Laffan something within Doha or outside but not too far away. This time I knew they would have black listed me :) because who would take a person as employee who continully refuses RG. Somewhere in October 2006, I started having similar problems again, I would not go into details but for a person like me who takes care of her self-respect, I didnt leave any room for talks & resigned from the bank in November 2006. After that I was relaxing after such a long term of work & hectic routines, joined gym, looked after myself yani i did all those things which I missed during my job tenure because of long schedules. You wont believe in February 2007, I received a call from RG Khartiyat for HR job. Because I was not doing anything at that time plus the place was on 25 mins drive from my home, I went there, gave out the test, Passed it, Had a department interview after a week or two, passed it & in the end had final interview with HR & joined them in April 06 :) I had an unfortunate incident over there during the interview that I was called for a Supervisor's role during the department interview & I was happy but in HR interview they told me because of Qatarization they have taken Qatari fresh graduate for that. I didnt like the idea because I was 9 years experienced & all of a sudden this unprofessional thing happened to me, I expressed my unhappiness over this incident but because the Qatari Manager who was talking to me was so polite & humble, I told him I'll join this uncalled job only because of your good treatment towards a new hire. It was on contract basis for 3 months, & because I was free at that time & the contract was only for 3 months I happily joined. I worked there, proved my mettle, all were happy but some racist things started happening from Canadian supervisor (female), & british supervisor (male) & I was shocked why they are actually trying to compete with me. I was working only as Assistant they were supervisors they should have behaved properly, at the same time the Indian / Hindu supervisor & his Filipino assistant also started behaving very awkward. At first, I just ignored all these because I knew their bio-datas some were recently promoted to supervisors, some assistants who were competing with me were working on the same grade from the last 5/6 years so I didnt pay them a heed. But later on, when the water went up my head I had to show them that who I am, what I was & their attempts to create problems for me could actually put them in problems hehehehehehe :) I enjoyed the looks on their faces :) Later on they were the one who started putting false accusations on me & went to my Qatari Manager. He called me, I told him the whole situation word by word & he was surprised why I didnt come to him if all this was happening, all I said that didnt want to waste his or my time on silly things as both were extremely busy in our projects. Those racists ppl silly things kept on happening, company renewed my contract for another 3 months, time passed by & for the third time when they tried to renew on the same position, I refused to sign & wanted to leave. Prime reason was same racism / bully stuff but that gentleman was really nice to me. He didnt let me go off like that & offered me a job of HR Advisor which is better than HR Assistant & with better pay too but unfortunately that was based in Ras Laffan & I prefer not to sit alongwith crowd in buses but drive myself but because of such a far away distance I thanked him & preferred to stay at home rather than working with such racists & / or working in such a far away place. One thing I would like to mention over here that the Qataris were the only ones who were very polite & respectful to me, The manager, supervisors & the assistants & secretaries all the Qatari staff was very very kind to me & always made me feel strong among these unprofessional bullies.
I wanted to say something :) but wrote on my whole biography hahahaa chee chee. But for the author of this topic I just want to tell you that I too am MBA in Banking & Finance & I was offered jobs in RG at various times, they didnt offer me a job for my MBA but because 'I was qualified / experienced / educated enough for the vacant positions they had to offer' :) If I wasnt I too wouldnt have been called ever. As bleu says, there are so many factors, budget, position, pay etc etc. But right attitude is one trait every employer looks into any possible employee :)
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CONFUSE ............ if you cannot convince!
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