Wamda

Global

Startup Watch: Robots, iPhones, hacking of Ukraine and Bitcoin's rival

The world of entrepreneurship news is a complex one, with people ever ready to give their two cents on how you should be running your...

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Global

Startup Watch: Business tips from a drug lord, burnout and the futility of the job interview

The world of entrepreneurship news is ever growing and sometimes it’s hard to know where to start when you want to catch up. To...

Startup Watch Programme business plans

Regional

What I know about hiring: Claudia Gross

This is the first of two articles on recruitment and HR. The first is on the theoretical side of getting people into your business and...

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Palestine

Social Dice helps navigate rough waters of MENA hiring process

When you ask founder Saed Shela what the secret is to Social Dice’s success, he will say it is about making the hiring process smart...

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Lebanon

Lack of local talent drives Lebanese entrepreneurs abroad

Despite a deep desire by Lebanese entrepreneurs to hire local and base their startups at home soil, lagging skills within the labor force...

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Global

What I know about the future of work: Claire Haidar

“People spend 90 percent of their time at work and yet so many people are unhappy at their jobs. There is still this reality that...

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Egypt

Egypt's online recruitment platform Wuzzuf acquires Viriphi

Egypt’s online recruitment platform Wuzzuf announced on Thursday its acquisition of job assessment platform Viriphi for an...

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Regional

What the Wamda Research Lab discovered about hiring talent [Infographic]

Last week the Wamda Research Lab (WRL) released a report exploring the ways in which MENA’s entrepreneurs hire and the...

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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...

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Maghreb

Programmers for hire: Scorify links talent with jobs

The hunt of developers. (Image via Mashable) Every industry has its own myths, and one often-heard claim in the tech sector is that...

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Maghreb

Devoxx Morocco brings together techies and startups

Connecting at Devoxx Morocco. (Images via Aline Mayard) I heard entrepreneurs voice a familiar complaint on a recent Monday evening at New...

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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...

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Maghreb

The House of Geeks gives Moroccan developers a reason to stay

Work and play are serious business at Morocco's House of Geeks. (Image via Quentin Qip) In this refurbished garage covered...

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Regional

From Egypt to the Gulf: conquering the HR market

Attracting good staff is the MENA-based entrepreneur’s constant lament, yet Egyptian Rania Abdallah says there are ways to solve this d...

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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...

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Global

How one Jordanian's innovative approach to job hunting got Airbnb's attention

Nina Mufleh wants a job at Airbnb. Like thousands of others though, when she began her quest, she quickly found her applications and calls...

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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...

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U.A.E

How interns can solve the startup hiring conundrum

“Every company should open its doors to fresh blood and young talent like interns or trainees (interns that later become full-timers), l...

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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...

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Elance's Dubai hiring announcement signals increased regional focus

Nearly two years after hiring a Startup Mobilizer based in Cairo, multinational online staffing platform Elance has moved to hire a...

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4 tips from a woman founder in Saudi on how to build a great creative agency

How does one build a successful full-service creative agency in Saudi Arabia? The answer is simple, if not necessarily easy to execute,...

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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...

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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...

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Akhtaboot 4th Job Fair 2013 - Amman

Akhtaboot is hosting their 4th job fair at Amman Grand Hall, Al Hussein Sports City on October 23rd and 24th, 2013. Recognizing a need to...

Job Recruitment Programme

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