Crescent Petroleum, a privately held oil and gas company in the Middle East, in partnership with Edraak, the region’s top non-profit online education platform, announced that their collaboration project, Career Compass Pathway work preparedness course has reached 1.1 million registrations since its launch in June 2023.
The online course offers modules ranging from English-language communication skills, digital literacy, business and workplace communication as well as training in how to produce a polished CV and develop interview skills.
It builds on a number of other career readiness programmes that Crescent Petroleum and Edraak have collaborated on in the past.
Majid Jafar, CEO of Crescent Petroleum said the milestone of more than a million registered underscores the massive demand of young people in our region to learn soft skills that will help them build their careers and reach their full potential.
“Our partnership with Edraak has helped advance the mission to upskill youth which are the future of our economy and prepare them for the modern workforce,” he said.
Bassem Saad, Chairman of Edraak, said initiatives such as these are demonstrative of a continuing demand among youth and employers for these critical competencies and market-responsive skills to continue to set the region apart as an innovative hub for business and growth.
Edraak’s platform enables the delivery of a rapidly scalable suite of courses that can serve hundreds of thousands of students across the region, with tailored skills training to equip young people with skills they need for future work.
The courses are hosted on Edraak’s platform and delivered in Arabic by Arabic-speaking practitioners and subject matter experts, free of charge to registered users.
Students who successfully complete the range of classes in the Career Compass also receive a certificate confirming their completion.
The Career Compass course is targeted at students across the region, with the largest proportion (42 per cent) coming from North Africa, followed by the Levant (34 per cent) and the GCC (24 per cent).
More than 75 per cent of students who completed the course said the skills included in the Career Compass enabled them to secure better jobs, promotions or other opportunities.
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