Wamda

Saudi Arabia

Saudi government to support up to 50 per cent of salaries in private sector

Source: News1 The Human Resources Development Fund launched “Hadaf”, a campaign (# goal_ supports you), directed to private...

saudi Employment fund

Regional

FlexxPay raises new funds

Source: GulfNews FlexxPay.com, a Dubai-based social impact start-up, announced it has raised funding from a group of individual and...

Start-up social impact Employment

Regional

The Middle East’s snail-pace to the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Suzan Elsayed is a Google Policy Fellow at Wamda and an independent researcher focusing on the Fourth Industrial Revolution and future of...

Fourth Industrial Revolution wef Education

U.A.E

Oliv raises $2 million in Series A

Oliv, the UAE-based careers platform connecting employers with young talent, has closed $2 million Series A funding round led by the...

Investment Funding round

Regional

To gig or not to gig that is the question for the MENA

It was Jazz performers who originally coined the term ‘gig’ in 1920’s America, as an abbreviation for the word...

Gigs Freelancers jobs

Regional

How talented is the MENA? [Report]

INSEAD Business School, Google and the Center for Economic Growth recently released this year’s edition of the Middle East and North...

Employment talents Skills

Yemen

Putting Yemen's crossroads online

Every morning in Sana’a’s Alqa’a square, dozens of unemployed men wait on the side of the street hoping to get work....

Yemen Employment ana mehani

Saudi Arabia

What I know about building a happy company: Alper Celen

You cannot spread happiness without being happy yourself. This tenet is the driving force behind Alper Celen’s aim to build the...

Joi What I Know Employment

Global

Do startups really create lots of good jobs?

This article is a crosspost with Harvard Business Review. Eskimos have 50 words for snow. Humans only use 10 percent of...

Employment jobs Policy

Regional

Who's hiring in MENA? [Infographic]

Access to talent is a key difficulty for employers large and small in MENA. In an upcoming Wamda Research Lab report the findings...

Access to Talent recruitment Payfort

Regional

Majority of UAE residents prefer to be entrepreneurs if given the choice [Report]

(Image via Startupist) More than half of the UAE’s residents say they would like to be entrepreneurs, according to a survey conducted b...

YouGov bayt.com MENA

Global

12 tips for getting hired by a startup [Infographic]

As the region’s number of startups grow so too does the interest from graduates and career changers in those startups. We’ve written many ti...

StartupCVs job hunting resume

Global

How this fresh grad landed a job at Wamda

Standing out in the crowd can be hard work. Even for pencils. (Image via Evoke) At the start of May young Egyptian graduate Ahmed Soliman...

Job Creation Job Recruitment Programme

Global

Thinking of joining a startup? 6 things you should know

A recent conversation with a young woman in her 20s, about how her job at a startup had left her unpaid for the last two months, left me...

Vinelab game cooks zoomal

Regional

Technology as an employment enabler in the Arab region

Technology investors and entrepreneurs can help reduce the impact of the expected explosion in unemployment amongst youth in the Arab...

dany farha Employment BECO Capital

Regional

The Arab region's freelance economy: some data

By all accounts the global freelance economy is burgeoning. For many, it acts as a way to earn income in the absence of formalized,...

freelance Employment nabbesh

U.A.E

Employment platform success for 2CVs

There is no doubt that with the increasing willingness of people to move to other countries for work, plus the continuous search of...

2cvs DSOA uae

Regional

The Middle East has the highest unemployment rate in the world, what can be done?

David Silverman via Gerry Images. This article is a cross post with The Huffington Post. The biggest threat from and to the Middle East...

Huffington Post Employment

Global

8 essential skills for growing your team [Infographic]

Do you need to expand your team but don't know how to start? According to data extracted from LinkedIn, the best recruitment managers are a...

CV Job Creation Job Recruitment

Does Saudization help or hurt startups?

The private sector in Saudi Arabia is now employing more Saudi citizens than ever before. In the past 30 months since the Ministry of...

labor expats expatriates

Regional

4 steps to make hiring easy

Hiring for entrepreneurs can be a blessing and a curse. While the increased workload that comes with expansion and additions means you’re d...

Job Recruitment Programme Job Creation

India's largest IT company outsources to women in Saudi Arabia

Forget outsourcing to India. India’s largest IT company is now planning to outsource to Saudi Arabia, debuting its first “all-female ser...

Employment Saudi Arabia Government

Global

What do employers look for on social media? [Infographic]

While LinkedIn is often hailed as the go-to social network for professionals, and job seekers in particular, many employers also scout a...

Job Recruitment Programme Social Media

Global

If you want resume or career advice, these two new job portals can help

Unemployment remains one of the most persistent problems in the Middle East; more than 26% of young people in the region remain without...

CV Job Creation Social Networks

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