Abstract
There is and has been an understandable focus on reaching full employment for Saudi nationals over the recent past. There are far too many Saudis who have talents and abilities to work in productive jobs, but have no employment position in which they can use their talents and skills. There are different reasons for this. A main reason is that there is a huge lack of Saudis who have the needed training and experience to perform in certain job market sectors where experience is essential. Expatriate workers from overseas locations have traditionally filled these positions. Another reason is that Saudis avoid certain kinds of positions such as "blue collar" jobs that are willingly occupied by foreign workers who are pleased to perform these needed services.
The Saudi Government, through the Ministry of Labor, has the task of correcting the job mix in Saudi Arabia, and putting unemployed Saudis into productive jobs. This is a process that takes time along with the cooperation of both the public and private sectors. This project looks at the situation of different industry sectors, and how they are involved with this process of avoiding and developing awareness of skill gaps and the progress that they have made in understanding the impact on performance. Descriptive statistics will be used to profile the research issues and inferential statistics will be used to test the conceptual model.