Top Companies 2021: The 10 best workplaces to grow your career in Qatar
The world of work is transforming. Not only have we worked through a once-in-a-generation global pandemic, but decades of automation, the rise of artificial intelligence and a new shift to remote work have all reshaped what our professional lives look like — and what we’re expecting from our employers.
Today, we are launching our first edition of Top Companies in the Middle East. The 2021 LinkedIn Top Companies list is a ranking of the 10 best workplaces to grow your career in Qatar (you may also check the lists for Saudi and the UAE). Our all-new methodology, which uses unique LinkedIn data to go beyond the companies that attract talent, uncovers the companies that invest in their talent. These 10 companies help employees build a professional foundation that sets them up for success both at the company and beyond.
Our new methodology has seven key pillars, each revealing an important element of career progression: ability to advance, skills growth, company stability, external opportunity, company affinity, gender diversity and educational background. You can dig into the details of our methodology at the bottom of the article.
We hope that the Top Companies list will serve as a go-to resource for professionals at every stage, from those who are looking to get back on their feet after an unprecedented year to those who are ready to make the next step in their career journey. At each company, you can see which roles and skills are in demand — as well as explore open jobs and see people you may know. See a company that feels like a good fit for you? Follow their company page and/or turn on job alerts to ensure you don’t miss out on future opportunities.
Interested to explore career opportunities in other countries? You can also check out the Top Companies in the UAE and Saudi Arabia, but also in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China (Chinese), France (French), Germany (German), India, Italy (Italian), Japan (Japanese), Malaysia, Mexico, the Netherlands (Dutch), the Philippines, Singapore, Spain (Spanish), the U.K. and the U.S. Checkout the lists for UAE, Saudi Arabia and Qatar in Arabic here.
Here are this year’s 10 #LinkedInTopCompanies in Qatar.
Company insights, such as skills and top locations, are sourced from LinkedIn Talent Insights and reflect only employees on LinkedIn. We use headcount provided by the company whenever possible. More details below.
Top location in Qatar: Doha | Largest job functions: Operations, Engineering, Administration | What you should know: Qatar Petroleum (QP) offers technical and non-technical courses to its workforce through its Professional Learning department, and runs a center specialized in fire and emergency training. It also supports students through its university scholarship program.
Top location in Qatar: Doha | Fastest-growing skills: Pediatrics, Clinical Research. | What you should know: HMC manages 12 hospitals, the National Ambulance Service and home and residential care services. The company offers courses and training programs to medical graduates through its Medical Education Department, and operates a training center that offers learning opportunities for other health professionals.
Top location in Qatar: Doha | Largest job functions: Finance, Sales, Information Technology (IT) | What you should know: QNB is a Qatari multinational commercial bank with subsidiaries and associates in 31 countries. The bank manages a scholarship program to fund undergraduates at universities in Qatar or abroad. QNB employs 2325 people in Qatar.
Top locations in Qatar: Doha | Largest job functions: Research, Community and Social Services, IT | What you should know: PHCC’s workforce is divided into five main job categories including doctors, nursing and dental assistants, allied health, health center support, as well as administration and management.
Top locations in Qatar: Doha | Most common skills: Retail Banking, Risk Management, Financial Analysis | What you should know: The Commercial Bank of Qatar celebrated its fortieth anniversary in 2020, and now operates 29 branches across the country.
Top locations in Qatar: Doha | What you should know: Sales, support, and Information Technology (IT) are the functions that had most employees at Vodafone in 2020. Vodafone has 832 employees in Qatar.
Top locations in Qatar: Mesaieed Industrial City | Fastest-growing skill: Commissioning. | What you should know: QAFCO is Qatar’s producer and exporter of ammonia to India, Jordan and the United States.
Top locations in Qatar: Doha | Most in demand job: Safety Officer. | What you should know: Qatargas is the biggest producer of Liquefied Natural Gas in the world in terms of production capacity.
Top location in Qatar: Doha | Largest job functions: Engineering, Operations and IT. | What you should know: Kahramaa is the sole transmission and distribution system owner and operator for electricity and water in Qatar and was established in July 2000.
Top locations in Qatar: Mesaieed Industrial City | Largest job functions: Operations, Engineering and IT. | What you should know: Qatalum produces more than 600,000 tons of primary aluminium products per year. The company’s workforce includes workers from 35 nationalities.
Share the full list and your thoughts on this year's Top Companies using #LinkedInTopCompanies.
Methodology
Our methodology uses LinkedIn data to rank companies based on seven pillars that have been shown to lead to career progression: ability to advance; skills growth; company stability; external opportunity; company affinity; gender diversity and educational background. Ability to advance tracks employee promotions within a company and when they move to a new company, based on standardized job titles. Skills growth looks at how employees across the company are gaining skills while employed at the company, using standardized LinkedIn skills. Company stability tracks attrition over the past year, as well as the percentage of employees that stay at the company at least three years. External opportunity looks at Recruiter outreach across employees at the company, signaling demand for workers coming from these companies. Company affinity, which seeks to measure how supportive a company’s culture is, looks at connection volume on LinkedIn among employees, controlled for company size. Gender diversity measures gender parity within a company and its subsidiaries. Finally, educational background examines the variety of educational attainment among employees, from no degree up to Ph.D. levels, reflecting a commitment to recruiting a wide range of professionals.
To be eligible, companies must have at least 500 employees as of Dec. 31 in the country and reductions in staff (including attrition and layoffs) can be no higher than 10% (based on LinkedIn data or public announcements). Only parent companies rank on the list; majority-owned subsidiaries and data about those subsidiaries are incorporated into the parent company score. Certain data counts — like gender diversity and educational background — are normalized based on company size across the pool of companies eligible for the list. The methodology time frame is Jan. 1, 2020 through Dec. 31, 2020. All of the data used is aggregated and/or de-identified.
We exclude all staffing and recruiting firms, educational institutions and government agencies. We also exclude LinkedIn, its parent company Microsoft and Microsoft subsidiaries.
Correction: Certain data counts were normalized for company size. The previous version stated that all data counts were normalized for company size.
About company insights
*Company insights were sourced from LinkedIn Talent Insights and include the parent company and majority-owned subsidiaries. Data reflects aggregated public member data from active LinkedIn profiles in the relevant country and includes full-time employee profiles associated with the parent company and majority-owned subsidiaries on LinkedIn. We exclude members who identify as interns or contractors. Headcounts are provided by the companies directly or public filings, unless otherwise noted with an asterisk. Those headcounts are based on LinkedIn data. The insights reflect a 12-month time period looking back from January 2021.
Reported by: Salma Altantawy and Lynn Chouman
Editor: Sandrine Chauvin
Image: Ben Ingham for LinkedIn
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No doubt the Q Companies remain the most desirable organisations to be with however its an unfair comparison against many private owned business houses that have an exemplary record in terms of business ethics as well as employee welfare.
This article is totally weak. I agree that some of the mentioned companies are huge and strong, but I know for a fact that there are strong companies out there and the article has not mentioned them, for example: Ooredoo Qatar, Qatar Gas and QIA. The data source should be more reliable and we have the right to check the comparison matrix to verify the outcomes.