Majid Jafar, CEO of Crescent Petroleum, calls on global business leaders to place the youth at the center of economic recovery. The COVID-19 pandemic has left tens of millions of people without work, but it has had an outsize impact on young people beginning their careers and entering the job market for the first time
Majid Jafar, the CEO of Crescent Petroleum, has called on global business leaders to place young people at the center of the post COVID-19 economic recovery by supporting initiatives to empower them with new skills and prepare them for the new job market. While millions of jobs have been lost all around the world, young people who are starting their careers bear the heaviest burden from COVID economic impacts as their careers and aspirations are delayed.
Mr Jafar made his comments on the virtual panel entitled “Delivering the Reskilling Revolution” on the opening day of the World Economic Forum’s virtual summit meeting “The Davos Agenda” . Mr. Jafar was joined on the virtual panel by Ryan Roslansky, Chief Executive Officer of LinkedIn, Asheesh Advani, President and Chief Executive Officer of JA Worldwide, and Mariéme Jamme, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of iamtheCODE.
In his remarks to the Davos summit, Mr Jafar also highlighted the success of the Crescent-sponsored Edraak Career Readiness programme, a three-part online employee preparedness and soft skills course that has seen more than 270,000 young people in the MENA region register to learn English language, basic computer skills, and general office skills. The course was launched at the start of the outbreak of COVID-19 and has continues to receive considerable attention from young people.
