1Million Beneficiaries of the Career Guidance Initiative in Schools
Continuing its efforts to empower national talents, prepare them for the future, and reduce the skills gap between them and the future labor market, the Human Resources Development Fund revealed that one million male and female secondary school students across the Kingdom have benefited from the Career Guidance and Counseling in Schools initiative from its launch in September 2023 until the end of May 2025.
The initiative’s efforts included holding more than 19,000 workshops and 18 career guidance forums across the Kingdom’s regions, in addition to nearly 5,000 individual and group career guidance sessions and other external activities that benefited a number of school counselors and parents.
The Career Guidance and Counseling in Schools initiative is implemented in partnership and integration with education departments across the Kingdom’s regions and governorates. It aims to align educational outputs with labor market requirements, enable students to learn about current and future market skills and requirements, and strengthen the concept of career guidance and its implementation in public and private schools through a group of qualified career counselors.
It also aims to empower students to make better educational choices and career decisions and discover their interests early by building an integrated system of career guidance and counseling services that help them plan their future, determine their career direction, and choose the appropriate academic path.
These efforts reflect HRDF’s commitment to reshaping the Saudi labor market with future-ready national talents, focusing on building sustainable human capabilities that ensure the Kingdom’s long-term economic growth and create generations capable of innovation and adapting to future changes. This reinforces HRDF’s central role in supplying emerging and promising economic sectors with qualified national cadres and accelerating economic diversification and sustainable development.
