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			<description><![CDATA[Survey of propery professionals also reveals that 24% have lost jobs in last year.]]></description>
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			<title>UAE construction, real estate staff down by up to 35%</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Recruitment expert reveals impact of global economic downturn on employee numbers.]]></description>
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			<title>Swelling salaries</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[  M&C Salary Survey reveals significant increase in FM wages across ME.    ]]></description>
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			<title>Real estate salaries jump more than 10%</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[EXCLUSIVE: Gulf jobs market 'extremely transient' despite 15% rise in wages.]]></description>
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			<description><![CDATA[A shortage of skilled staff is driving up salaries of landscape architects in the Middle East region, according to a survey by a recruitment company.]]></description>
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			<description><![CDATA[Gulf developers struggling to recruit talent despite high salaries - survey.]]></description>
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			<description><![CDATA[  Christopher Stokes, senior consultant, Macdonald & Company, discusses the current state of the FM market.  ]]></description>
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			<description><![CDATA[Kuwait real estate and property professionals earn 10% more than their Middle Eastern counterparts, according to the latest statistics from Macdonald & Company.]]></description>
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			<description><![CDATA[  The FM industry's leading ladies take part in facilities management Middle East's first roundtable event.  ]]></description>
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			<description><![CDATA[Property salary survey to include facilities management section.  ]]></description>
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			<title>New salary survey</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[  Recruitment company, Macdonald & Company are to launch a construction slary survey at this year's Cityscape exhibition.]]></description>
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			<title>Macdonald carries out salary survey</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[  Macdonald & Company, a property recruitment agency, is carrying out a salary survey on the real estate industry in the Middle East.]]></description>
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			<description><![CDATA[With minimum wage possibly making its debut appearance in the construction world, it has been reported that eventually, other industries will also have to comply. Facilities Management Middle East asks key industry professionals: what kind of impact could this have on the recruitment process?  ]]></description>
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			<description><![CDATA[  Has Dubai’s rapid development caused confusion in the property management recruitment industry? Danielle Le Faucheur, senior international consultant for Macdonald & Company seems to think so.   ]]></description>
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