...a letter from your current job/sponsor that basically "releases" you, gives you their permission to take another job with a different company in Qatar. Without it, when your job contract finishes, you basically have to leave Qatar for two years before you can come back and find a new job.
It's kind of like indentured servitude, and it sucks because it basically gives your employer control over your livelihood. So, say, you have a good job at X salary, and you stay there for your initial 2 year contract, and then another company in Qatar offers you a better package. Even though you have completed your two years at the first company, and you're getting a better offer from another company, you cannot accept a job at the other company because your current company can veto that by not giving your a letter of no objection.
But as an earlier poster said, besides Al Jazeera English, there really isn't much here in Qatar in terms of other tv/news stations, so I would guess that the whole no objection letter stuff would be less of an issue for you than for folks in other fields/businesses.
...a letter from your current job/sponsor that basically "releases" you, gives you their permission to take another job with a different company in Qatar. Without it, when your job contract finishes, you basically have to leave Qatar for two years before you can come back and find a new job.
It's kind of like indentured servitude, and it sucks because it basically gives your employer control over your livelihood. So, say, you have a good job at X salary, and you stay there for your initial 2 year contract, and then another company in Qatar offers you a better package. Even though you have completed your two years at the first company, and you're getting a better offer from another company, you cannot accept a job at the other company because your current company can veto that by not giving your a letter of no objection.
But as an earlier poster said, besides Al Jazeera English, there really isn't much here in Qatar in terms of other tv/news stations, so I would guess that the whole no objection letter stuff would be less of an issue for you than for folks in other fields/businesses.