Several Saudi businesswomen claimed that many young women are unable to work in certain jobs due to lack of experience and poor training.

Nouf Al-Rakan, chairman of the businesswomen committee in Riyadh’s Chamber of Commerce, told Arab News that their main difficulty when hiring females was insufficient experience, since many Saudi women don’t work for long periods of time.

Al-Rakan hoped that the recent launch of campaign to promote female employment will yield results, as their expectations are to employ over 2,500 Saudi women for next year. Their hopes are high after a similar campaign during 2014 succeeded in employing more than 1,300 female workers.

The new campaign was presented during the Together for Nationalization plan, presented by Riyadh’s Chamber of Commerce this month. Saudi women are much more productive than their male counterparts, said Al-Rakan.

a fact that has enticed many companies to employ more females.

Currently, women who applied for jobs following the chamber’s program have various degrees of education, with titles ranging from secondary school, university degrees, masters and sometimes PhD degrees, according to the chamber’s data. Women usually prefer jobs in fields like banking, medicine, administration and commerce.

Al-Rakan confirmed that there is coordination between the government private companies, but so far, none from the Ministry of Labor. The chamber is hoping the ministry will be more supporting of the program through follow up and training next summer.