
The Emirates Group is a highly profitable business with a turnover of approximately US$ 12 billion and over 35,000 employees. The Group comprises of Dnata, the successful Airport Ground Services and Travel Industry division, and Emirates, the Group's rapidly expanding and award winning international Airline. Emirates global network now sees it flying to over 100 destinations across 6 continents, and with aircraft orders worth over Emirates currently operates a modern fleet of 115 wide-bodied aircraft and it has orders worth over US$ 60 billion for 242 more of the latest aircraft, including 8 Boeing 777 freighters. With many more destinations coming on line. With the Group now hiring over 6,000 new staff every year, essential to business success will be the ongoing employment of high quality people to join our multi-cultural team of over 145 nationalities. Dubai, a tourism centre and modern cosmopolitan city with high standards of healthcare, education and leisure pursuits for residents offers one of the most desirable lifestyle locations in the world. In addition to lifestyle and excellent tax free salary benefits, the Emirates Group also offers professional development opportunities to help employees achieve job satisfaction, with ongoing support to develop new skills and grow their careers successfully.
Department
The department is a cutting edge practitioner of online learning best practices in instructional design, multimedia development, outsourcing, and innovative use of educational technology. In Emirates Group, these are not just concepts, but live and established practices. The department’s contribution to excellence was recognized with the Brandon Hall Gold Excellence in e-Learning Award for Best Practices as well as the Learning Leader 2006 Award by the US-based Masie Consortium.
As the provider of learning solutions design and development services to the world’s fastest growing aviation and travel-services company, the department gives its staff an opportunity to work with various aspects of the business – operations, commercial, services and finance.
The recent introduction of a new learning system environment - serving a 35,000 strong global workforce of over 145 nationalities - was recognized both internally and by the US based vendor as an outstanding implementation project - an indication of the quality of the core team and strength of relationships with internal stakeholders.
Department staff plays a prominent role in global professional bodies, such as the IPD, PMI, Masie Consortium, e-Learning Guild and Centre of Excellence in e-Learning, as well as presenting at regional and international conferences, serving to shape online learning standards and practices.
The department offers professionals an exceptionally creative atmosphere in which to hone their skills, display their talents, and develop competencies they may never had a chance to, and grow into world-class performers.