Kingdom\u2019s Vision 2030<\/span><\/a> economic development focus, the company is committed to \u2018Saudisation\u2019, youth employment, and career training.<\/p>\nChalhoub Group\u2019s Retail Academy was recently officially recognised as an accredited training centre by the Technical and Vocational Training Corporation in the Kingdom.<\/p>\n
Through the institution, retailers at the forefront can gain access to state-of-the-art and experiential training programmes.<\/p>\n
Reem Al-Maiman, a store manager at Jimmy Choo in Jeddah, who has been working for the Chalhoub Group for a year, said that the flexibility of her position has allowed her to grow a retail career whilst working toward her other dreams.<\/p>\n
Al-Maiman told Arab News<\/i>: \u201cI\u2019m also a national basketball player. I\u2019m trying to manage (the time) between my job in retail and being an athlete and representing my country. I found this balance while working in Chalhoub Group \u2026 I found the freedom of working remotely and delegating tasks, and also managing the team. I got the support from them to be able to do both.\u201d<\/p>\n
She had previously worked for another company that had not given her the time to pursue her sports dream.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is support for us as Saudi women or Saudi youth \u2026 They keep creating opportunities for us to learn and to be bigger in these industries. This transformation would result (over the coming) years of great women and role models and (pave) the way for younger generations to come,\u201d added Al-Maiman to Arab News<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Chalhoub Group, a leading Dubai-based luxury retailer, launched a campaign #MYBOLDFUTURE that aims to help young Saudis carve a future in the Kingdom\u2019s retail sector. The retailer seeks to meet the growing demand for high-end fashion and support the industry in the region. At Fashion Futures on October 11, a keystone event held annually by…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":18098,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4458,3977,2683],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19621"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19621"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19623,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19621\/revisions\/19623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}