Emirates Group gears for growth, unveils future-fit career and employee lounge

As 1 of the largest employers successful Dubai, the Emirates Group plays a captious relation successful shaping the city’s growth, development, and radical wellbeing. Reflecting Dubai’s thrust to attract, retain, and cultivate the champion endowment from astir the world, the Group has present unveiled a futuristic lounge astatine its iconic office to service planetary candidates, caller joiners, employees, their families, and retirees.

Wejhaty, meaning ‘my destination’ successful Arabic, was officially opened by HH Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, Chairman and Chief Executive Emirates Airline and Group, successful the beingness of enforcement leaders and employees.

HH Sheikh Ahmed said: “The Emirates Group’s adjacent epoch volition witnesser unprecedented planetary growth, close present from our Dubai hub. Powered by the sharpest minds and the latest technology, we’re reshaping and redesigning our organisation to cogwheel up for this growth. Our absorption is firmly connected our ain people, who are our biggest marque ambassadors and advocates. Their safety, security, vocation development, nonrecreational wellbeing, and idiosyncratic journeys are apical priorities for us. Wejhaty volition acceptable caller signature standards of work and excellence successful radical acquisition – for our employees, their families, caller joiners, and those aspiring to beryllium a portion of the Group.”

Spread crossed a sprawling 22,770 sq.ft. space, Wejhaty is nary mean worker lounge oregon one-stop shop. The abstraction tin service 500 radical astatine immoderate constituent successful time, 1,200 a day, and it aims to make an inspiring and welcoming abstraction that reflects the Group’s radical ethos. The absorption is connected elevating worker acquisition with streamlined solutions, precocious technology, and seamless, highly responsive services.

A idiosyncratic interaction is cardinal to customer-focused organisations similar the Emirates Group, which is wherefore visitors to Wejhaty volition beryllium greeted, served and guided by friendly, supportive concierge work attendants.

Employee journey

In the bright, airy and spacious centre, employees and their families person entree to the implicit scope of services – including biometrics, Dubai Health’s aesculapian fittingness tests and aesculapian x-ray – positive HR, IT, payroll and cashier services. Wejhaty besides houses third-party planetary visa services to cater to employees’ wanderlust and minimise pre-travel stress.

While parents are being served, their tiny tots tin person a whale of a time, supervised by a nanny, successful an imaginatively designed abstraction packed with toys, merchandise and entertainment.

Teams wrong the Group person entree to an amphitheatre-style, modular auditorium that tin clasp astir 100 radical – perfect for team-building activities, projects and grooming sessions. The auditorium houses high-tech audio-visual solutions, directional dependable waves, online biology information capture, and scalable method capabilities.

Candidate journey

Candidates, some interior and external, tin bask an integrated and stress-free acquisition arsenic they conscionable the Group’s recruiters successful state-of the-art spaces, including 19 treatment rooms that tin accommodate 116 radical astatine a time. Two appraisal spaces that tin big 46 radical are wherever pilots, cadets and different specializer roles person dedicated facilities and precocious exertion for simulation- and computer-based assessments.

Senior executives, cherry-picked for roles successful the Group, volition beryllium welcomed successful a tastefully appointed enforcement lounge, and successful high-end gathering rooms offering the latest presumption tech.

New joiners’ journey

Highly specialised and afloat immersive spaces volition prosecute caller joiners successful the affluent culture, almighty values, manner and the aboriginal imaginativeness of Dubai and the Emirates Group.

Art installations and societal spaces, including Emirates’ renowned Business Class seats afloat kitted retired with recycled materials from the airline’s retrofit programme, adhd touches of glamour and thrust location the Group’s ethos connected sustainability. Cool and modular seating dotted passim the lounge, a pantry, lockers, and fashionable dressing rooms for uniformed employees, implicit Wejhaty.

Wejhaty tin big 400 candidates for interviews and assessments, 100 caller joiners for firm induction, and service 700 employees and their household members each azygous day. Every year, connected average, the Group processes 46,000 worker ID cards, 30,000 aesculapian fittingness tests, 8,200 UAE biometric registrations, and 3,400 X-rays for caller joiners. Thousands of aspiring candidates are assessed astatine the Emirates Group office annually.

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