Dubai, united arab emirates, is one of the busiest and a land of opportunities to grow for those who live there. Dubai’s job market is filling 100 jobs per day. especially during the peak winter season.thats why your arrival is vital due to the job season. Coming through a visit visa is another easy way to get hired in Dubai without paying a single coin to agencies, and this can save you from scammers, but if you do what you must do.
In this article, we will take you through a visit visa guideline to get hired. In this article, we will show you the strategies, tips, and rules that will help you to get hired during your visit visa for free.
UAE Valid Visa Categories
30-day visit visa
60-day visit visa
90 Day visit visa (this visa type is the most useful and ideal one for those comes to look for a job).
Free Entry Visit Visa
This visa type is mostly available to citizens of GCC countries, the UK, the USA, Canada, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, and Australia. (Those who has passport from the above-mentioned countries do not require a pre-booking visa.)
Advance Visit Visa
This visa type is unlike the free entry visa. This visa type is limited to some countries, that they should apply in advance before arriving in Dubai.mostly asian countries such like sri lanka, India, Pakistan, the Philippines, Nepal, Myanmar, and Indonesia.
Plus, African countries are included for advanced visa arrival.
On Arrival Visa
This visa type allows you to get the visa on arrival at the airport. This doesn’t require pre-booking or bookings.
Own Visa
You are eligible to work under this visa. This type has freedom, unlike an employment visa that the company provides. With this visa category, you can do part-time jobs in the UAE without NOC letters. Even some companies are willing to hire those who has own visa because they can join asap plus the employer is free from providing a visa.
Reminder: This type of visa fee is a bit higher than other visa charged in Dubai.
Once you land in Dubai…!
Remember having visit visa doesn’t mean that you are capable of anything dubai.UAE is strictly following rules and its a great example for discipline.
Follow these rules always:
Visit Visa is not an entry pass to work. (The UAE will not allow you to work on a Visit Visa according to their labour rules)
Overstaying beyond your visa days, involving to illegal things, and not following Dubai road instructions are strictly prohibited, and they can bring you a fine or jail, depending on the situation.
Visit Visa Job Strategy
Get your ATS-friendly resume.We have mentioned our blog article about the total guideline for a job guarantee resume. Read the post below for more info.
Use the UAE official job sites, such as
- LinkedIn (UAE NO 1 Official Job Platform)https://www.linkedin.com/feed/
- Indeed https://ae.indeed.com/
- Naukri Gulf https://www.naukrigulf.com/search-jobs
This is your first step; please do it right after you create your resume. You have to keep applying for these jobs.
Physical visits to workplaces
This is another practical level that works in Dubai.butyou have to prepare some few things before you leave home
- Keeps some extra copies of your resume.
- Dress Casual formal.(First impression matters.
- Meet the branch managers or the person in charge to hand over the resume.
- Talk nicely and express your passion to work with them and hand over your cv with a working UAE contact number.
Recruitment agencies (Not Recommended)
The UAE has a lot of recruitment agencies that hire every single day, but the catch is that some of them are scammers.
This is one of Dubai's most rapid ways to get hired, and that is being recommended by another employer. If you have some friends in the UAE already who are working, handover cv to them, rather than waiting for online. This method works a lot for any department.
- Apply Every Single day at least 20-30 jobs.
- Apply only in the morning, especially between 8-9A.m(This is the time most of Hr Managers open mails).
- Apply on most active job web sites.
- Do not pay job money or fees to get a job.
- Don’t be lazy to visit physically and submit a resume.Applying only online could take time.
- Keep always with you printed resume hard copies, Educational certificates, references contacts, and pass port size photo.
Processing time period
Usually
- Hospitality hirings are faster than other departments’ jobs.
- Can be within one week, so be prepared always.
- Professional jobs and office roles might take some time.
- depend on the days that you can join the company.
Don’t skip this part
The United Arab Emirates is a source of jobs, so it has a higher demand for competition to get hired than in the past. especially nowadays.
So, as Hire me Gulfs, we are encouraging you while applying for jobs, sharpen your English, learn, and research about companies. Don’t stop until you get hired.
