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The Gulf's next major hiring wave is building in a country the labour market often overlooks: Oman. Under Vision 2040, the Sultanate is executing a deliberate economic transformation - the Duqm special economic zone, expanded ports at Salalah and Sohar, tourism corridors, renewable energy projects and logistics infrastructure linking the Gulf to the Indian Ocean. Each pillar is a workforce...

When the final whistle blew on the 2022 World Cup, a question hung over the Gulf's labour market: what happens to a workforce built for a tournament? Qatar had imported hundreds of thousands of workers to deliver stadiums, metro lines, roads and hotels in under a decade. The answer, three-plus years on, is more interesting than the predictions - and...

Cross-border hiring looks different from inside the data. At Huntr - an AI operating system for blue-collar labor mobility - we have sourced, screened and deployed workers across live corridors connecting South Asia and Africa to the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Ireland, the UK and Germany. Thousands of placements across six corridors teach lessons that no single-country view can. Lesson...

Ask anyone who worked in the Gulf fifteen years ago about the paperwork, and watch them wince. Physical files shuttled between ministries. Stamps, attestations, queues that began before dawn. A single visa process could generate a folder an inch thick - and any lost page meant starting over. Today, that world is disappearing. Digital work permit platforms across the GCC...