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Twenty-three-year-old Marwa Abdullah, a UAE national, is ready to take up any job that comes her way. She has been working with the Dubai Metro for the last 10 months and is desperate for a shift in career due to the odd working hours with the Metro. Marwa is only one among the several young Emirati women who are walking into Careers UAE 2012 looking for a fresh start and newer opportunities.

The Roads & Transport Authority (RTA) is taking part in the 12th Career Show which is kicked off at the Dubai World Trade Center today and rolls on for three days. The event features the participation of about 130 firms and organizations spanning the entire UAE with the aim of offering graduate citizens exposure to the job market, recruiting them and thus accelerating the Emiratization drive.

Dubai's Road and Transport Authority (RTA) has announced a deal to train at least 100 of its employees in the accredited International Computer Driving Licence IT literacy certification. The deal was signed with the National Institute for Vocational Education (NIVE), an accredited International Computer Driving Licence centre and an autonomously managed organization affiliated with the Knowledge and Human Development Authority, (KHDA), to boost the IT competencies of RTA employees.

His Excellency Mattar Al Tayer, Chairman of the Board and Executive Director of the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA), stated that since inception, the RTA had adopted creative and innovative methods to cope with the transportation challenges encountered by the Emirate of Dubai in line with the transition to innovation; which is being increasingly considered as the most important ingredient of any modern organization.

Dubai Metro Video 2012

The Vehicles Licensing Agency at the Roads & Transport Authority (RTA) has recently started offering M-coded vehicle number plates online through its portal, customer service centers and strategic partners outlets in response to the positive feedback received and the intense public interest in acquiring these distinguished plates.

After two-and-a-half years of operation, Metro officials are looking at ways to improve the Dh28 billion system. Transport chiefs are considering opening both the Green and Red lines earlier on Fridays next year and setting up an out-of-hours shuttle to the airport, said Ahmad Al Hammadi, the chief executive of the Roads and Transport Authority's rail agency.

Dubai With a crime rate of 1.5 per million trips in 2011, Dubai Metro has become one of the safest means of public transport in the world, surpassing world-renowned railways in the US and Europe, it was announced Thursday. Speaking at a ceremony to honour distinguished employees and cooperating departments and establishments, Lt Col Thani said the four-year-old department now covers public buses and marine transport, as well as Dubai Metro.

H.E. Mattar Al Tayer, Chairman of the Board and Executive Director of the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA), has recently received H.E. David Wooton, Mayor of the Financial District in London, along with H.E. Alan Yarrow, the Sheriff of the City of London.

A team from the Unified Automated Fare Collection Dep't at the Roads & Transport Authority (RTA) has recently visited the Dubai Thalassemia Center as part of community-oriented initiatives of the Dep't and in keeping with RTA's strategy of shouldering its responsibilities towards various human & community organizations and lending all forms of support to them.