Ministry of Labor opens 5,745 private-sector jobs across 17 governorates, including Cairo and Giza

What is on offer

The headline figures are consistent across the reports of the announcement on 1 November: 5,745 jobs, offered by 72 private-sector companies, spread over 17 governorates. The ministry presents the bulletin as part of an ongoing plan to expand employment, deepen cooperation with the private sector, and widen vocational training and skills development, so that the needs of employers are turned into real opportunities for jobseekers.

Alongside Cairo, Giza and Qalyubia, the governorates named in the bulletin are Alexandria, Sharqia, Gharbia, Port Said, New Valley, Aswan, Qena, Ismailia, Beheira, Damietta, Beni Suef, Assiut, Menoufia and Fayoum. The reports checked for this article do not give a breakdown of how many of the 5,745 jobs are in each governorate, and they do not list the individual roles or companies in full, so this article does not invent a Cairo share or a list of job titles. Anyone interested should check the details of the specific opportunity they want, through the official ministry channels, before applying.

How to apply

According to the ministry, as reported on 1 November, there are three routes in. Applicants can go to the labour directorate in the governorate where the job is offered, or to the General Department of Employment at the ministry’s old headquarters in Nasr City, or they can contact the company advertising the job directly, following the application procedure set for that particular vacancy. Applications are open during the first week of November 2026, with the exact procedure varying by vacancy, so the requirements and deadline for any one job are those stated for that job, not a single date for the whole bulletin.

The minister also urged young men and women to apply for jobs that match their qualifications and experience, and said the ministry is working in parallel on free vocational training and skills programmes, linked to the real needs of the labour market, so that jobseekers arrive with the skills employers are actually asking for.

What the ministry says it will check

The announcement stresses that the ministry’s role does not end with publishing the bulletin. Raddad instructed the governorate labour directorates to follow up the application and hiring procedures, to make it easier for young people to take up the jobs, and to verify that the advertising companies comply with Labour Law No. 14 of 2025, apply the minimum wage, provide a safe working environment, and guarantee workers their legal rights. The point, as the minister put it, is to make sure the figures in the bulletin turn into genuine hires rather than announcements on paper.

That follow-up matters for applicants in Greater Cairo as much as anywhere else: a vacancy that looks attractive on a list is only useful if the employer, the wage and the workplace match what was advertised. Applicants should confirm the employer, the place of work, the wage and the working conditions for the specific vacancy before accepting, and can raise any mismatch through the labour directorate handling that vacancy. This article deliberately leaves any salary figure blank: the reports of the bulletin checked here do not substantiate a single salary range for these 5,745 jobs, so no figure is given.