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Tawteen Platform

Tawteen is Oman's national digital job matching platform, launched in 2024, directly connecting Omani job seekers with private sector vacancies — a digital infrastructure response to the Omanisation gap.

Overview

Tawteen (Arabic: توطين — localisation or naturalisation) is Oman’s national digital employment platform, launched in 2024 by the National Centre for Employment (NCE) under the Ministry of Labour. The platform directly connects Omani job seekers with private sector employer vacancies — replacing manual, bureaucratic job matching processes with an algorithmic, digital system.

Purpose

Tawteen is a direct response to two persistent problems in Oman’s labour market:

Information asymmetry: Omani job seekers often lack visibility of available private sector positions; employers lack efficient channels to reach qualified Omani applicants
Mismatch: The skills and expectations of Omani job seekers do not always align with employer requirements — a matching problem that data-driven algorithms can help address

Features

Job seeker side:

Registration and skills profiling
CV creation and management
Job search with filtering by sector, location, salary, and skills
Application tracking
Training and certification links

Employer side:

Vacancy posting
Candidate search and filtering
Application management
Omanisation compliance reporting

Government analytics:

Labour market demand and supply data for policy planning
Sector-level Omanisation tracking
Skills gap analysis for training programme targeting

Integration with Broader System

Tawteen is one component of a broader digital employment system that includes:

National Centre for Employment job seeker registration
Ministry of Labour Omanisation compliance tracking
Human Resources Development Fund training subsidies
Al Rafd Fund small business financing for self-employed Omanis

Effectiveness Assessment

Tawteen’s impact on Omanisation rates will be measured over time. The platform alone cannot solve the structural Omanisation challenge — the cost differential between Omani and expatriate workers remains. However, it can reduce frictional unemployment (Omanis who cannot find jobs due to information gaps) and provide data to better target training investments.