Although they are likely to be well educated, often having attended University in the USA and Europe, they will lack experience.
The quality of training they receive early on in their career will be paramount to the success of the event.
Training for Expo 2010 in Shanghai, China, began 4 years prior to the event, which attracted 73 million visitors.
Mr Makimura, the Chief Advisor to the Shanghai World Expo Human Resources Development Center, said that the pivotal factors for the successful operation and management of the World Expo in Shanghai could “only be achieved via the intensified training for the organizers and service providers.”
Six years before the event, the Shanghai World Expo Human Resources Development Center rolled out a HR training program for 400 high level executives.
The training the top executives received was implemented throughout their own organizations.
In addition, the 1.7 million volunteers assisting the day-to-day running of the event, received training via E-learning over a two year period.
The Expo theme, “Connecting Minds, Creating the Future” can be used to not only describe the event, but also the training that companies and organizations will need to provide tp existing employees and new recruits to ensure Expo 2020 lives up to Vice President and Prime Minster of UAE and Ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum’s promise that Dubai will “astonish the world”.