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Saturday, December 5, 2009

Dubai Silicon Interview


Week 14 Reflection



On the 24th of November we interviewed Mrs Khlifa Khalid the senior manager of the finance department at Dubai Silicon Oasis. This interview was for our company profile project, for me it was very useful and interesting project. I didn’t know that Dubai Silicon Oasis is fully in the government sector. DSO was launched in 2004 and it is located in Dubai, it is a free trade zone technology park for semiconductor, microelectronic and other high technology-based companies. The most surprising information I got from this interview is the number of UAE nationals working there and they are 50% from the total number of employees at DSOA which is really a good number. I also found this when I was walking around the finance department most of the workers are nationals and the majority are women. Some of their activities are: comprising office tower, R&D and industrial zone, educational institution, apartment and villas, hotels, health care and a range of lifestyle facilities. Another interesting thing is what they did to overcome the crisis problem and this was by giving less credit period and asking banks to finance their customers. I was also happy to know what the foreign exchange risk is when the company buy or sell from outside the countries and how much they may gain or lose because of the currency exchange.



on our way to meet the senior manager

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