The GCAA recruits qualified nationals who have graduated in their respective disciplines from post-secondary UAE institutions such as the Higher Colleges of Technology or one of the Ministry of Higher Education accredited Universities. Following appointment, a Training Needs Analysis is conducted and signed-off jointly with the National Training Officer and the respective Head of Department. The new employee is then provided extensive internal familiarization training which is supplemented by external courses where the need has been identified on a case-by-case basis.

The Finance and Administration directorate continues to focus on attracting nationals for various positions in the Administration, Human Resources, IT, Finance and Materials sections as well as serving as the vanguard for the overall emiratisation scheme of the Authority. The year 2004 marked the crossing of the 57 % level of nationalization of the total Authority personnel.