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Unemployment in Jordan is a seriously negative phenomenon as it adversely affects people in many ways. It increases in complexity and demands a deep investigation for comprehending its reasons to find out proper policy plans for such a crisis. It is a universal issue with negative effects. All countries, including Jordan, confront this issue. This issue is growing in Arab countries where there are more than fifteen million jobless people. The objective of this qualitative study was to evaluate the 2011- 2020 NES in term of replacing the Guest Workers' Program as an effort to reduce the country's unemployment rate among Jordanians. The study investigated the public policy regarding its impact on the number of guest workers, minimum wages, vocational and technical training, and the growth of the high tech sector. The study sought to identify any impact that the policy might have had on guest workers and on Jordanian employment and its workforce through employing a before- and-after design where the pre-policy period acts as a control by which the measures after the implementation, the post-policy period of the guest worker program might be compared. The evaluation results indicated that Jordan's NES was determined to be effective in reducing the level of guest workers in the high-tech occupations and increasing the number of Jordanians qualified to meet the market demand. But it was ineffective in reducing the number of guest workers instead the number of Jordan's illiterate guest workers was projected to grow by the 2020 calendar year. The findings of this study indicated that the 2011-2020 Jordan's NES had no impact on the number of the Jordanian guest workers by the 2020 calendar year instead the number of illiterate guest workers increased. The findings also indicated that guest workers number are negatively related to wages in the Kingdom of Jordan by the 2020 calendar year. It also showed that Jordan's NES had no impact on the number of the Jordanian graduated in VTC by the 2020 calendar year. The implementation of Jordan's NES did not require a substantial increase in technical and vocational training of Jordanians by the 2020 calendar year. Finally, there was a relationship between the size of Jordan's guest worker population and the growth of the Country's high tech sector by the 2020 calendar year. Jordan's NES was evaluated to be effective in reducing the level of guest workers in the high-tech occupations and increasing the number of Jordanians skilled to meet the Jordanian market demand.
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