Saudi Gazette, 25 March 2024: Saudi Arabia’s Human Resources and Social Development Ministry has announced it is going to start implementing the second phase of the Saudisation programme in consultancy professions.

The second phase covers 40% of professions related to consulting services, specifically financial consulting, engineering and architectural consulting, health consulting and senior management consulting.

Professionals including financial consulting specialists, business consulting specialists, cyber security consulting specialists, project management managers, project management engineers and project management specialists are included.

They have done so together with the Finance Ministry, the Local Content and Government Procurement Authority, Expenditure and Project Efficiency Authority or EXPRO and the Human Resources Development Fund or HADAF.

The second phase starts on 25 March 2024.

Also reported in Al Riyadh on 25 March 2024. For the full story, click here.

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