How to apply for jobs in Egypt: job sites, your CV, the labour law and fake offers

Not legal advice. This guide summarises Egypt's Labour Law No. 14 of 2025, official statements and the job sites' own pages, as checked in October 2026. Laws and ministerial decisions change, and your contract may give you more than the law's minimum. For a decision about your own job, ask your governorate's labour directorate or a lawyer.

Short answer: in Egypt, you can find private-sector jobs on job sites such as Wuzzuf, Forasna, Bayt and LinkedIn, and on companies' own careers pages. Government jobs have their own portal, run by the Central Agency for Organization and Administration (CAOA). Complete one honest profile, send your CV in the language of the posting, and apply to fewer jobs that you actually fit. Before you accept, know three rules from Labour Law No. 14 of 2025: your contract is written in Arabic and you get a copy, probation can't exceed three months, and ending an open-ended contract takes three months' written notice. And never pay to apply for a job or to be interviewed.

This guide is for job seekers looking for work in Egypt, mostly in the private sector, with a short section on government jobs. It doesn't cover work permits for foreign nationals.

Where jobs in Egypt are posted

Wuzzuf. When you apply through Wuzzuf, the employer receives your profile along with your answers to any screening questions in the posting, and Wuzzuf's help centre says a complete profile gives it structured data that improves its matching (Wuzzuf Help Center). So your profile is your application. Our Wuzzuf profile tips go through it section by section.

Forasna (فرصنا). Forasna's job categories include crafts, driving and delivery, construction, marketing and sales, and tourism and hospitality, alongside office, engineering and IT jobs (Forasna). Its FAQ says it is a job site, not a recruitment agency: companies post the jobs and choose who to hire, and registering and applying is free for job seekers (Forasna FAQ, in Arabic). The two are linked: Wuzzuf's footer says it is owned by BasharSoft, and Forasna's footer names the same company (البشرسوفت) as its copyright holder (Wuzzuf, Forasna).

Bayt. Bayt.com, a regional job site, has a "Jobs in Egypt" section (Bayt.com).

LinkedIn. Search LinkedIn Jobs with Egypt or your city as the location. Keep the titles and dates on your LinkedIn profile the same as on your CV and your Wuzzuf profile.

Company careers pages. If you want a specific company, apply on its own careers page. Type the company's address yourself rather than following a link from a social media post.

Government jobs. CAOA runs the Government Jobs Portal (بوابة الوظائف الحكومية). It describes the portal as a national digital portal where citizens can see vacancies and apply online with no intermediary, and track an application from initial acceptance through the exam date to the result (jobs.caoa.gov.eg, in Arabic). Government employees are outside the Labour Law covered below: unless a specific provision says otherwise, it doesn't apply to employees of state bodies, including local administration units and public authorities (Law No. 14 of 2025, Article 1 of the issuing law, in Arabic). The portal links the Civil Service Law instead.

Ministry of Labour jobs, including abroad. The Ministry of Labour publishes job opportunities on its website, labour.gov.eg. For jobs abroad, its June 2026 statement says applications for overseas opportunities "must be submitted directly through the official Ministry of Labor website" and that its opportunities "are completely free of charge" (Cairo Governorate, republishing the National Media Authority).

Your CV for Egyptian employers

• Language: follow the posting. An English posting gets an English CV, an Arabic posting an Arabic one. If you apply to both kinds of employer, keep two separate CVs rather than one bilingual document. Our guide to an Arabic or an English CV explains why, and how to write Arabic that doesn't read like a translation.
• Photo: no law requires one, and the evidence for Egypt is thin. We found no Egyptian law that requires a CV photo, and the only evidence we found that Egyptian employers expect one is a 2023 regional statement from Bayt.com that doesn't name Egypt. Our CV photo guide has the country table and what a good photo looks like.
• One CV per job. Rewrite the summary and reorder your experience for each posting, using only what is true. Tailor your CV to each job, honestly shows how.
• Your experience certificates. An application may ask for proof of past jobs. Under the Labour Law, your employer must give you, on request and free of charge, a certificate of your experience and professional competence, during your contract or when it ends. When you leave, it must give you a certificate with your start and end dates, the work you did and the benefits you had, and, if you ask, your salary and the reason the job ended, within 15 days of your request (Law No. 14 of 2025, Article 175, in Arabic). More in our guide to the experience certificate.

What Egypt's labour law means for a job seeker

Labour Law No. 14 of 2025 was published in the Official Gazette on 3 May 2025 (Clyde & Co). It has been in effect since 1 September 2025, and it replaced Labour Law No. 12 of 2003 (EY). The rules below are from the law's text (Manshurat, in Arabic), article by article.

Your contract: in Arabic, in writing, and a copy for you

• Arabic, four copies. The employer must write the contract in Arabic, in four copies: one for the employer, one for you, one for the social insurance office and one for the competent administrative authority (Article 89). A foreign worker who doesn't read Arabic may have it in Arabic and their own language; if the two differ, the Arabic one applies (same article).
• What it must say. At least the start date, the employer's name and workplace address, your details, the nature of the job, and the agreed wage, how and when it is paid, and any other cash or in-kind benefits (Article 89). If the salary you were promised isn't in the contract, ask for it to be added before you sign.
• No written contract? Then the contract counts as open-ended from the start (Article 88), and either side can prove the job and its rights by any means (Article 89).
• Open-ended or fixed-term. A contract is either open-ended, or for a fixed term if the nature of the work requires it, and it can be renewed by agreement (Article 87).

Probation: three months at most, once per employer

The probation period is set in the contract and can't exceed three months. And an employer can't put you on probation more than once (Article 90). If a second offer from a former employer comes with a new probation period, that is worth asking about.

Notice: three months for an open-ended contract

• Either side can end an open-ended contract by giving the other written notice three months before the end (Article 156). The law also says neither employers nor workers may end an open-ended contract without a legitimate and sufficient reason (Article 157). Clyde & Co notes that the new law made this three months "regardless of the duration of employment" (Clyde & Co).
• You can't agree to waive the notice or shorten it, but you can agree to lengthen it. When you are the one leaving, your employer may release you from all or part of the notice (Article 161).
• If your employer gives you notice, you may take one full day a week, or eight hours during the week, off with pay to look for another job, as long as you tell your employer at least the day before (Article 162).

Resigning to take a new job

A resignation must be in writing, signed by you or your representative, and approved by the competent administrative authority. You keep working until your employer decides on it; it has ten days, or the resignation counts as accepted. You can withdraw it within ten days of being told it was accepted, in writing and approved by the same authority (Article 167). A ministerial decision from September 2025 says the approval comes from a labour relations office at a governorate labour directorate, or from the directorate itself (Maspero, on Ministerial Decision No. 187 of 2025, in Arabic).

The law's text doesn't spell out how this ten-day decision and the three-month notice above fit together, so ask your governorate's labour directorate before you set a leaving date. In our view, the practical order is: signed offer or contract from the new employer first, resignation second.

Salary and notice questions on applications

• Expected or minimum salary. Wuzzuf asks for the minimum salary you would accept as part of your career interests (Wuzzuf Help Center). Give a real number: the one below which you would actually say no. When an employer names a figure, ask whether it is before or after deductions, and make sure the agreed wage ends up in the contract, where Article 89 says it belongs.
• Notice period. Start from your current contract, not from habit. If you are on an open-ended contract, three months is the legal minimum, your contract may say more, and your employer can release you earlier (Articles 156 and 161). EY's summary of the law puts it simply: "The notice period for resignations is updated to three months" (EY). An honest answer sounds like "three months, and I can ask to be released earlier".
• Available to start. Count your full notice period. Don't promise a start date that depends on your employer waiving it.

How to spot a fake job offer in Egypt

The warnings come from the government itself:

• Fake vacancies in a ministry's name. On 18 October 2026, the Ministry of Petroleum said posts advertising vacancies at the ministry were fake and misleading, and warned against sharing personal data or documents, or transferring any money, to apply for them (Maspero, from the Middle East News Agency, in Arabic).
• Overseas jobs that ask for money. In June 2026, the Ministry of Labour warned about individuals, pages and unlicensed companies posting fake ads that demand money for employment or travel procedures. It said it doesn't work with intermediaries, and that you can check an overseas opportunity at its General Directorate of Employment (3 Youssef Abbas Street, Nasr City, Cairo) or your governorate's labour directorate, and check an overseas recruitment company's licence at the ministry's former headquarters in Nasr City (Cairo Governorate).
• What the law lets an agency charge you. Placing Egyptians in jobs in Egypt or abroad is done by the ministry or by the bodies the law lists, which include private employment agencies licensed by the ministry (Article 40). They may not take money from you, directly or indirectly, for placing you; a licensed private agency may take at most 1% of your wage, for the first year only, as administrative costs, and nothing else under any name (Article 43). Placing people in jobs through websites, pages or online platforms needs a ministry licence too (Article 52); licensed private agencies already covered by Article 40 are exempt (Law No. 14 of 2025, in Arabic).

So an ad that asks you for a registration fee, a file fee or a deposit before an interview is a warning sign. If an offer comes from an employer in the UAE, our guide to checking a UAE job offer covers the MOHRE check.

Checklist before you apply, accept or resign

1. Is your profile complete on the sites you use, with the same titles and dates as your CV?
2. Did you read the posting's requirements, and do you actually fit them? Our honest job-fit checklist helps you decide.
3. Is your CV in the posting's language, tailored to this job, and true?
4. Has anyone asked you for money to apply, to be interviewed or to travel? If yes, stop.
5. Is the job ad from the company itself, a licensed agency, or an official portal?
6. Does the contract state the wage, how and when it is paid, and the benefits? Will you get your copy?
7. Is the probation period in the contract, and is it three months or less?
8. What is your notice period, and do you have a signed offer before you resign?
9. Do you have experience certificates from your past employers? Ask for them now, not when an application asks.

FAQ

How do I find a job in Egypt? Use job sites such as Wuzzuf, Forasna, Bayt and LinkedIn, and the careers pages of companies you want to work for, with one complete, honest profile and a CV in the language of each posting. For government jobs, use CAOA's Government Jobs Portal. Apply to fewer jobs that you actually fit rather than to everything.

What are the best job sites in Egypt? We don't rank them, but these are the ones this guide covers: Wuzzuf, Forasna (its footer names the same company as Wuzzuf's, and its categories include crafts, delivery, sales and services), Bayt.com and LinkedIn. For government jobs, jobs.caoa.gov.eg. For Ministry of Labour opportunities, including jobs abroad, the ministry's own website.

What is the probation period under Egypt's new labour law? At most three months, set in the contract, and an employer can't put you on probation more than once (Article 90 of Law No. 14 of 2025).

What is the notice period under Egypt's labour law? For an open-ended contract, three months' written notice from either side (Article 156). It can't be shortened by agreement but can be lengthened, and your employer may release you from it when you resign (Article 161).

Do I have to pay to apply for Ministry of Labour jobs? No. The ministry says its job opportunities are completely free of charge, that no fees are collected for applications, and that it doesn't work with intermediaries.

Should my CV be in Arabic or English for jobs in Egypt? In the language of the posting. If you apply to both kinds of employer, keep two separate CVs.

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Sources

• Labour Law No. 14 of 2025, full Arabic text (Manshurat Qanuniya), Articles 1 of the issuing law, 40, 43, 52, 87 to 90, 156, 157, 161, 162, 167 and 175: manshurat.org
• Clyde & Co, "New Labour Law issued in Egypt" (20 May 2025): clydeco.com
• EY, "Egypt enacts new labor law affecting employers from 1 September 2025" (22 July 2025): ey.com
• Maspero, Minister of Labour issues Decision No. 187 of 2025 on approving resignations (15 September 2025, in Arabic): maspero.eg
• Maspero (Middle East News Agency), Ministry of Petroleum warns of fake job ads (18 October 2026, in Arabic): maspero.eg
• Cairo Governorate, "Labor Ministry warns of fake overseas job ads" (10 June 2026, from the National Media Authority): cairo.gov.eg
• Central Agency for Organization and Administration, Government Jobs Portal (in Arabic): jobs.caoa.gov.eg
• Ministry of Labour, official website: labour.gov.eg
• Wuzzuf Help Center, FAQs for professionals: wuzzuf.net
• Wuzzuf, jobs in Egypt (footer: owned by BasharSoft): wuzzuf.net
• Forasna, home page and FAQ (in Arabic): forasna.com · forasna.com/faq
• Bayt.com, jobs in Egypt: bayt.com