Despite demand for technical-engineers in various ministries and public sector entities, there are nearly 3,000 unemployed Kuwaiti engineers who are registered with the Civil Service Bureau (CSB).
Revealing this shocking fact, the Secretary of Kuwait Society of Engineers, Fahd Al-Otaibi said that a total of 2,837 male and female Kuwaiti engineers who are currently registered with the Civil Service Bureau, remain unemployed. He added that it was totally unacceptable that there should be such a long waiting list of engineers, at a time when many government entities complain about the lack of technical-engineers.
Al-Otabil blamed this incongruity on poor communications between the CSB and the public sector bodies.
Al-Otaibi called on officials in the CSB, ministries, public and private entities to cooperate and to open a direct communication channel to attract the unemployed engineers on an urgent basis.
He also pointed out that among the unemployed engineers, there were 922 mechanical engineering majors, 764 industrial engineering majors, 462 electrical engineering majors, 240 chemical engineers, and 207 petroleum engineers. In addition there were 115 Civil engineering majors, 72 computer engineers, 42 communications and electronics engineers, and 13 environmental engineers.