work in UAE

I wish to move with my family to Dubai;is it difficult for westerners to find a job in UAE?
we are muslims;is it more easy being muslims to be given a job in the UAE?is it more easy any company wish to employ me being a muslim?I was convert to islam a few years ago and I am active practicant,is to say,I pray 5 times a day,do ramadhan,....
best wishes

Finding work will having nothing to do with your religion and everything to do with your experience and qualifications. You can't just go and hope to find work, without proper visas.

As mentioned it has nothing to do with your religion and all to do with your qualifications. Are you a proffecional? Do you have something to offer an employer? If so apply for a job send your CV and see if you can get sponcered. You cannot just roll into town set up shop and hope to get a job in the UAE. You have to be excepted by an employer before hand. The UAE has unlimited access to unskilled labour right across the pond in India and Pakistan of which get payed $300 a month.

There is a huge amount of westerners working in Dubai.
90% of the workforce are expats, being a muslim makes absolutely no difference.
To get a residence permit and work permit you need to be sponsored by an employer.
It is illegal to work on a visit visa.
What is your profession???. Most westerners work in management positons
School fees are very expensive (12,000 Euro+ a year) and need to be taken into account when negotiating with an employer.
Manual Labour, shop staff, restaurant staff are from the Philipines, India, Pakistan etc and work long hours for very little pay.
Check out expatforum.com/dubai for detailed advise from expats living and working in Dubai.

The UAE economy is in a bit of a slump with the real estate market crash and the resulting pressures on thousands of residents who put their money into it.

With no local experience in the UAE, unless you have a specialist skill, you are one of the many in the job market ; the fact that you are a Western Muslim makes no difference. There are many Western Christians who speak fluent Arabic and many more Muslims / locals educated in the West who speak fluent Arabic and English.

If you wish to move to the Middle East, try Saudi Arabia or Kuwait or even Sudan - the fact that you are a keen practitioner of Islam and a Westerner may help you.

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Gemcap saying the UAE economoy is in a bit of a slump is an understatement. Sounds like something an employee of Dubai Government would say. The country has racked up mass debts that it can't pay off and the investors have left so all of the investment was for what? Meanwhile, Abu Dhabi is proping the other emirates up...including Dubai. I would head off to Qatar, where they have money or to Saudi...if you're happy to have no life outside work.

Oh, understatements carry more weight than sundry exclamation marks :-). Its like, "the weather is just a tad warm now" when it is 48 Celsius. But you've said it : Among all the GCC countries, can you think of living in any other place - other than probably Oman with an economy which is so slow it is practically stagnant.

I like Oman - but only for weekend / holiday trips.

I like Oman - but only for weekend / holiday trips......I would head off to Qatar, where they have money or to Saudi...if you're happy to have no life outside work

so all of the investment was for what?

For expats like us to think of this as a place within the GCC they can live in and to come in and grow the economy. The locals would have been far happier with a much slower pace of development - for all the material benefits the boom brought them.

Yes...I am willing to work in hotel industry at UEA, I used to work in hotel industry more than 22 years, now I am opening my own business by opening the Seafood Resto at Gorontalo Sulawesi Indonesia, after my restaurant was running, I wished back to hotel industry in Dubai or UEA.........my last 5 (five) years become a General Manager in some hotels, if you need my CV will be sent to you..thank you