The fair was organized by the Saudi Embassy in Washington.

The KSU media department said the fair was visited by a large number of graduates.

“More than 7,000 graduates in various stages and scientific disciplines visited the fair in the presence of Sami Al-Sadhan, deputy chair of the Saudi diplomatic mission in Washington, and Mohammed Al-Eissa, cultural attache at the Saudi Embassy,” an official at the media department said.

Earlier, Saad Al-Hussein, dean of faculty and personnel affairs at KSU, who is also supervisor of Recruiting Outstanding Saudi Students Abroad (ROSSA), gave a detailed explanation of the main objective behind KSU participation in the job fair, which is to attract outstanding scholars at American universities pursuing higher studies under Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Foreign Scholarship Program.

During the PowerPoint presentation, he also stressed the eagerness of KSU to attract outstanding talent to its academic cadre to promote higher studies and research back home in the Kingdom, as well as viewing it as an investment to get the best national graduates into the services sector.

Notably, ROSSA came up with a new electronic portal, which aims to hire outstanding Saudi students abroad in order to streamline the local workforce under the Nitaqat program.

The KSU delegation joined the accompanying exhibition and also hosted a workshop titled “How to apply and compete for academic jobs” within the public lectures and workshops at the fair, which aimed also to raise awareness on scholarship conditions and academic jobs at Saudi universities.