75 thousand jobs in e-commerce organizations await Saudi youth in 2017, while for the next year 2018, the study revealed that e-commerce platforms in the Kingdom will increase employment rates to 40% (200 thousand jobs), while the job rate between 2019 and 2020 will reach (225 thousand jobs) by 45%, while 2020 promises to provide more than 500 thousand jobs (both sexes), According to a recent study conducted by a specialized agency, this volume of job opportunities in the sector is due to several factors, including the large and accelerated transformations of digital investment projects led by the Kingdom in light of its future vision 2030 and the National Transformation Program 2020.
In the same context, the supervisor of the mraya.E-commerce platforms expert Dr. Sadiq Al-Wadei said that digital job opportunities will vary between e-commerce (marketing) sectors and platforms, Internet services (web), and smart marketing applications via mobile phones (mobile), stressing that the local market will restructure in the coming periods to move away from traditional sales operations and quickly enter the digital sales sectors, and this will contribute to creating hundreds of thousands of job opportunities for Saudi youth in the sector, with financial incomes exceeding the average income of traditional businesses, estimated at 5T%.
Wadi stressed the importance of overcoming the obstacles facing the expansion of e-commerce in the Kingdom, including the preparation of digital human cadres, and expanding the number of consulting offices in the sector, as the current ones are only software offices, which will not help companies choose the right product display platform and highlight their identity systematically to suit their own goals.
Wadi stressed the importance of overcoming the obstacles facing the expansion of e-commerce in the Kingdom, including the preparation of digital human cadres and expanding the number of consulting offices in the sector.
Wadi called on the Ministry of Labor and Social Development and the Human Resources Fund "Hadaf" to adopt a different qualification strategy for Saudi cadres, qualifying them to work in the e-commerce sectors, which will be the most important employment destinations in the coming years.
The mraya.com study concluded that it is necessary to face the shortage of Saudi cadres in the coming years by training them in all sectors of e-commerce in the fields of customer service, writing marketing content, managing electronic sales sites, managing virtual store accounts on social networks, and logistical functions such as "shipping, technical software, and smartphone applications."
The mraya.com study concluded that it is necessary to face the shortage in the coming years for Saudi cadres by training them in all sectors of e-commerce.
