Meeting report

Monday, March 25, 2013

Meeting report:
H00216488 Ahmed Aldhahri - Chairman
H00211114 Mohammed Alkhamiri - Participant
H00158662 Saood Al Junaibi - Secretary

A meeting was held on the 21st March, 3:00 p.m., amongst 3 students, Saood Al Junaibi, Ahmed Aldhahri, Mohammed Alkhamiri, and the teacher, Hedley Butterfield. The topic we picked to discuss in the meeting was Water Scarcity in Africa. It was decided that Ahmed would take the role of chairman, Saleem as the participant, and Saood, as the secretary. Each of us had to discuss some solutions that would help minimise water scarcity in Africa.

We began with the introductions, and then Ahmed started talking about the first best solution we could find, which was well digging. The investment it takes to accomplish well digging is not much but it does have a great deal of advantage. Not only is it cost effective but they are easy to finish and move. Ahmed mentioned the different types of well digging; firstly, shallow wells. This was the cheapest and had the best chance of clean water. Then there were deep wells which were on the contrary, very expensive but they do guarantee lots of water. Another solution he brought up was building sand dams; this does promise the proper amount of potable water, and is considered one of the recommended solutions there is.

Now, it was Mohammed's turn and he discussed water pumps; this proposal was rejected. But within our plans we thought it could be proposed for some of the countries. Water pumps were highly expensive and difficult to build.

It is now Saood's turn and he mentioned a list of do's and don'ts of how to conserve water. It is important to raise awareness of this issue around the world especially Africa in which water is sadly scarce.

At the end of the meeting we all agreed on two proposals, which were building water wells and sand dams. Secondly, raising the memorandum of agreement recommendation of the Department of Management and planning coordination with the Department of Finance to take appropriate measures as far as possible.

The time the meeting took was approximately 10-15 minutes

 

Mohamed Abdul Aziz Mohamed(H00211114) CLV

Welcome to the ADNOC Abu Dhabi National Oil Company.  Last week, we met a man who would like to work with us in our company; the interviewee was Faisal Al-Hosni and he was applying to our company as a human resources manager. And there were in the interview room three people, Mr.Hedley, Abdullah Al Mazroui and Mohammed Al Rumaithi; they are responsible for the questions and the level of quality and rating.

At first they asked him about himself and his introduction was pretty decent. He has experience for several years in the field of employment and human resources; he bears the pressure of work and works under pressure. He is married and has 3 sons and 1 daughter, and he has lived in the capital Abu Dhabi for a long time.

Furthermore, we must not forget that his English is excellent in all respects; we wonder that his words are very difficult and highly skilled. Regarding the sound he was weak and I remember every minute to tell him to speak more loudly. His poise was very serious and personal and he answered the questions with confidence and consistency. Therefore, about the most difficult question we asked to Faisal is that your salary will be less than what is now; he was thinking and thinking about it.

Finally, it was clear that he is willing and ready to answer questions and he showed us that he will make every physical effort to do the job clearly and completely, Moreover, He is the sort of person that our company is looking to employ.