Our Vision
A labor market that is adequately served by distinguished Jordanian professional workforce.
A labor market that is adequately served by distinguished Jordanian professional workforce.
Commitment to Excellence, Quality, National Responsibility
To meet the quantitative and qualitative needsof the Jordanian and Arab labor markets for a skilled workforce by designing and implementing diverse and attractive vocational and practical training programs aimed at the target youth. These programs will comply with modern international standards and regulations, in effective partnership with national and international institutions.
Meet the quantity and quality needs of local and regional labor market of qualified trainees through Modern, flexible and demand driven organization, and through designing and implementing variety training programs that attract young according to international standards and effective partnership with national and international institutions.
The National Employment and Training Company is a private, non-profit organization founded in 2007, in response to directives from His Majesty King Abdullah II bin Al Hussein. Its mission is to supply the Jordanian labor market with skilled and qualified workers by providing and ensuring training opportunities for unemployed youth across various sectors in all governorates of the Kingdom. This is achieved through an effective partnership with both the public and private sectors to increase labor market participation. The Board of Directors consists of nine members, with 80% representing the industrial sector.
The National Employment and Training is one of the primary training providers in the vocational and technical education sector. Known for its specialized vocational training programs in construction and related trades, the company was established in response to Royal Directives in 2007. Its aim is to equip unemployed youth with professional training and secure job opportunities that ensure a stable future. The company commenced its operations after completing all plans and detailed programs for each phase of employment and training. This reflects His Majesty King Abdullah II's belief in the importance of Jordanian youth’s involvement in the economic and social development process, preparing a qualified generation equipped with the necessary skills and abilities to work, contribute, and enhance productivity.
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Company Strategy
To achieve the goals and objectives of the company through its primary activity of training individuals in various trades and applying these skills in practical life.
How to Join Us:
You can apply for the National Training Program by visiting the company’s institutes and completing the enrollment application, either in paper form or electronically through the following link:
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Required Documents:
Fees and Financial Information:
The company covers the cost of the initial issuance of the certificate upon
Trainees are dismissed for habitual absenteeism if they fail to attend
regularly and exceed allowable absence limits.
The training methodology at The National Employment and Training Company comprises several stages:
Recruitment Process
Announcements for the start of each training course are made across all company institutes in the various governorates of the Kingdom through the following media channels:
Print Media: Newspapers, brochures,
Training Stages
National Training Stage
The National Training Stage lasts for one month, totaling 112 training hours, and includes physical fitness, life skills, vocational guidance and counseling, as well as religious and national lectures. The aim of the National Training is to refine the trainee's character and prepare them properly based on commitment, discipline, and seriousness in work through:
Promoting teamwork and a collective spirit
Vocational Training Stage
The Vocational Training Stage lasts for 14 weeks, totaling 390 training hours, during which trainees are trained in the workshops and classrooms of the company's institutes, encompassing both theoretical and practical training.
The objective of the Vocational Training Stage is to equip trainees with the essential theoretical and practical skills for each trade they are being trained in. Trainees are placed in a training environment that simulates the labor market, and the training curricula are based on the latest European standards in vocational training.
Success Criteria and Retake of Vocational Exams:
A trainee is considered successful if they achieve a score of 50% or higher in the following four areas (collectively). A candidate will pass the vocational exam if they meet the requirements for success in both the theoretical and practical assessments.
Field Training Stage
The field training (On-the-Job Training)- (OJT):
lasts for 8 weeks, totaling 384 training hours. This stage aims to enhance trainees' competencies by allowing them to practice the skills they learned in real-world projects within private and public sector companies and institutions. It focuses on developing their communication skills and ability to work in genuine workplace environments in both sectors
Time frame:
The company has adopted a strategy for the employment and training of 2500-300s apprentices per year, balanced with the realities and needs of the labour market.
Training atomsphere and methodology
The National Employment and Training Company has made great strides in providing curricula that are consistent with advanced international experience in building specialized training programmes in accordance with modern scientific methods that meet the requirements of the local market in all its construction disciplines.
The company's training institutes
Training classes
Practical phase | Quality control phase | Development phase | Preparation stage |
-implementing different exercises directed by instructors -feed back -instructors /trainees |
-setting quality standards Instructors/trainees -Assess performance results/trainees |
-presenting questions from the instructor -presenting new ideas to implement the knowledge /trainees -feed back - introduction /instructor -execution |
-Instructor assessment -building on information from the instructor - |
Training workshops
The National company has professional training workshops prepared according to the Global Operator Processing System and equipped with modern training equipment that simulates the training reality to achieve the best training results ( in the attachment you will find a model image of the training needs used to carry out the tasks).
Professional trainers practise their job in various workshops in the vocational training institutes of the National Employment and Training company, implementing theoretical classes in training halls, giving lectures, conducting tests and applying practical exercises within training workshops. The content of this manual therefore focuses mainly on the educational methodologies and methods for training in the workshops.
Field and private sector training
Training in offshore companies is based on participatory training, which is complementary training within private and public companies and in cooperation between training providers and employers, where employers are required to hire escorts. (An accompanying instructor) to supervise trainees during their training at these companies, where they are agreed on administrative and technical matters of interest to the trainees, in accordance with clear employment contracts indicating the duties of the trainees and the type and time of the trainer and identifying the supervisory and responsible bodies responsible for the conduct and evaluation of the training process.
Driven by the company's belief in the importance of partnership with the private sector, the company aims to enhance its role and involvement in management and governance. This commitment is reflected in the composition of its Board of Directors, where 80% of the members represent the private sector. Currently, the company is working to establish sectoral partnership councils with the sectors that employ the largest number of Jordanian workers, particularly in industry and construction. These councils aim to create a strategic partnership between the company and the representatives of these sectors, with one of the outcomes being the development of some of the company's institutes to become distinguished entities, managed by the private sector, ensuring the quality of their outputs and facilitating the employment of their graduates in collaboration with international organizations and companies to transfer expertise and experience while building national capacities.