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hezamalaman
Joined: 30 Mar 2013 Posts: 2
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Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 4:29 am Post subject: PMU using recruitment consultants? |
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Despite having a rather large HR department, PMU seems now to have to use recruitment companies to attract staff. Surely this has nothing to do with their completely incompetent "International Rescu....I mean Recruitment Team?"
I've been waiting months now for contact back from this company from numerous people, and all I need is an employment contract. The woman at PMU has stopped answering my e-mails, phone calls and text messages. Is this normal for this place? I am starting to think that it is. |
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babur
Joined: 10 Aug 2010 Posts: 178 Location: Dammam, Saudi Arabia
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Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 11:32 am Post subject: PMU |
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Walk in interview in Intercontinental Hotel, Miami |
Doesn't PMU have a revolving door like the Interconti's? |
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What_a_mensch
Joined: 30 Aug 2012 Posts: 3 Location: Saudi Arabia...for the moment
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Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 9:30 am Post subject: |
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Yes, PMU is recruiting in Florida, but the word is that this is simply a free junket for the Rector and his HR henchman.
Female campus EFL department has had twenty percent of its staff bail out this academic year and the male side is not much better at retention. Problems are primarily lower and lower wages, confusing and misleading leadership on female side (esp. the Chair, Ms P.) and also the way that HR has consistently lied to new faculty regarding pay and conditions.
Last semester, a significant number of faculty, hired on business visas, were repatriated in order to get work visas. They were told it would take two weeks. Most took two to three months, and some have still to return. One couple had their baby refused a visa!!!
If you choose to come to KSA, PLEASE make sure you are given a work visa - do not accept a business visa with the promise that PMU (or any other employer) can change it once you get here. Fist, it's illegal to work here on a business visa and secondly, it can take months with no pay.
As far as working for PMU, of course there are some good things as well as bad (like any employer), but the bad are beginning to significantly eat into the good. The inevitable consequence of a private university's need to make a profit for its backers (unlike gov. unis like KFUPM or University of Dammam) results in cost cutting in terms of staff and lowering of academic standards in order to show how many students "pass" with PMU. |
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Zara461
Joined: 17 Nov 2012 Posts: 58 Location: 007-Kingdom
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Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 10:15 am Post subject: |
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What_a_mensh, have you any info about the Faculty of Engineering at PMU? How's the situation there? Are things the same as the EFL department?
And how's the faculty accommodation/compound? |
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