Map your workforce skills across the Gulf
SkillDrill uses conversational AI to discover the real skills in your organisation. Replace spreadsheets and manual audits with intelligent skills mapping that works across multilingual, multi-site workforces.
- Mapped in days, not the months a manual audit takes
- Conversations run in each person's preferred language
- Search by skill and build project teams instantly
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Built for diverse, multilingual workforces
UAE organisations manage talent from dozens of nationalities. SkillDrill captures skills, qualifications, and languages through natural AI conversations.
Multilingual skills capture
AI conversations work across languages. Capture skills from Arabic, Hindi, Urdu, Tagalog, and English speakers in their natural language.
Multi-site management
Manage workforces across Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, and beyond from a single dashboard. Track skills across sites, projects, and free zones.
Certification tracking
Track professional licences, trade certifications, and compliance requirements with expiry alerts. Stay ahead of visa-linked qualification requirements.
Construction & infrastructure
Purpose-built for sectors driving the Gulf economy. Track trade skills, plant tickets, safety certifications, and project experience across large workforces.
Enterprise security
AES-256 encryption, per-tenant data isolation, SSO support, and full audit trails. GDPR and DIFC data protection compliant. Hosted on AWS infrastructure.
Ethical AI
Working towards ISO 42001 (AI Management System) certification. AI augments human decision-making, it never replaces it. Transparent, auditable, and bias-aware.
UAE workforce realities
Skills pressures unique to the Emirates
Mapping a UAE workforce is not the same as mapping one anywhere else. Four live pressures SkillDrill is built to handle:
Emiratisation and Nafis reporting
Private-sector firms with 50+ employees must grow UAE national hires in skilled roles by 2% each year, reaching 10% by the end of 2026. Firms with 20–49 employees are also in scope under the post-2024 extension, at reduced targets. Missing the target carries MoHRE fines per shortfall. Without a live view of which roles qualify as skilled and who counts toward target, compliance becomes guesswork. SkillDrill tags nationality against role classifications and reports the gap in real time.
Credentials from 200+ countries
An engineer trained in Chennai, a nurse qualified in Manila, a welder certified in Birmingham. Every worker arrives with credentials from a different authority, in a different language, with different attestation status. SkillDrill captures each qualification with its issuing body, expiry, and verification state — not just a job title on a spreadsheet.
Vision 2031 sector shift
UAE organisations are redirecting workforces from construction and services into AI, advanced manufacturing, space, and clean energy. Before hiring externally into a Golden Visa specialism, you need to see which of your existing staff already carry transferable skills — something standard job titles actively hide.
Multilingual skills capture
Arabic, Hindi, Urdu, Tagalog, Bengali, and English all sit in one canteen. Employees who aren't fluent in English under-report on English-only forms. SkillDrill's AI conversations run in each person's preferred language, so nothing is missed because of the medium.
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