By Klaus Jurgen Measuring the quality of life in any city or town is a complicated scientific task. While necessary, over-focusing on questions such as “Are you happy?” will not automatically lead to making correct assumptions about a town’s range of amenities or infrastructure development! While some argue that the …

By Jeff Weiner, CEO, Linkedin In a previous post, I wrote about five tools to look for when recruiting superstar talent. In this post, I’d like to share some key lessons learned over the years when it comes to retaining your top people. As a general rule, it’s important to …

In collaboration with Bilgi Eğitim, Datassist will conduct its 27th training programme in human resources and payroll at santralİstanbul on May 24th-June 14th. The duration of the programme will be 32 hours and take place at santralistanbul. The programme is suitable for professionals who currently work in human resources and …

While the current account deficit of the last three months has reached $16.5 billion, only one-fifth of it was financed by new capital flow. Employment is surviving because of the construction and services sectors, but unemployment is around 9 percent. The difficulties experienced in foreign financing have immediately shown themselves …

  by Lou Adler, CEO of The Adler Group If you’re a job-seeker looking for a career move, ask the hiring manager what work needs to be done, what problems need to be solved and how success in the job will impact the company’s strategy or mission. If you don’t …

by MUSTAFA SÖNMEZ The share of wage earners in total employment has exceeded 64 percent whereas the number of “self-employed” has remained the same over the past 10 years In Turkey, the population over the age of 15 has increased by 8 million in the past 10 years and 70 …

By Ela Erozan Gursel Flexible work has become the norm in England due to the economic recession. The work conditions of the flexible work are determined by zero-hour contracts widely preferred by employers. These contracts favor the employers over employees by paying only the hours worked. There is neither guarantee …

OVERVIEW Employers have a number of obligations before and following delivery in case of pregnancy of their employees. In general, it is essential that pregnant employees are given leave for 8 weeks (56 days) both before and after delivery making 112 days in total. Since pregnant employees shall be paid …

Most talent management initiatives focus on so-called high potentials — employees than an organization believes are capable of advancing at least two levels beyond their current position. If you consider the traditional bell curve, high potentials may represent up to 15 percent of your organization. At the bottom of the …

The overall objective of the project that is implemented by ILO and the Turkish Employment Agency, IŞKUR, is to contribute to women’s empowerment in Turkey by providing decent work opportunities through capacity development of relevant institutions, active labour market policy (ALMP) interventions and enhancing awareness on gender, women’s human rights …