News

I finally finished my first MOOC (Massive Open Online Course). I must admit it was one of the BEST classes I have ever taken. The name of the course was Crash Course on Creativity taught by Tina Seelig, Executive Director of Stanford Technology Ventures Program . This was a well-organized …

As a natural result of the global and mobile workforce, geographic borders are losing their importance. As an HR Professional or entrepreneur, we are required to know not only our local labor law but also regional and even international labor law in order to operate in different markets. In the …

Turkey’s youth unemployment stood at 20.7 percent in January according to official data. Despite a growing youth jobless rate in developed markets, Turkey has managed to minimize the increase in this area, the International Labour Organization (ILO) said on Wednesday. Releasing their report titled “Global Employment Trends for Youth 2013” …

By Anthony Sattin The French designer has looked beyond the old town to open a hotel in one of the city’s liveliest streets. Most travellers to Istanbul stay in Sultanahmet, in the shadow of the Ayasofya and Topkapi palace, or down on the shore of the Bosphorus, but that is …

The private pension’s volume increased by 4.5 folders in two months. Turkey’s new private pension system, which assures a 25 percent state contribution, has led to a rise in the number of applications by 200,000 in the first two months of this year, from the same period a year earlier, …

I literarily have butterflies because I am going back to school. No, I am not enrolled in a graduate programme, no masters degree is on the horizon. I am going to pursue my interests and talents through a new way of learning. After researching about MOOCs for an article I …

   Susan Fowler ISTANBUL — Khalid Khreis, a Jordanian artist, is on a mission to fight reductionist notions of contemporary Middle Eastern art. As curator of an exhibition at the Pera Museum in Istanbul, running through April 21, he has included paintings, sculptures, engravings and ceramics by 44 artists spanning …

Journalism and the arts are the areas in which unemployment rates are the highest among university graduates, according to data provided by the Turkish Statistics Institute (TÜİK).

What are the challenges we are facing on a daily basis? Sensitive workplace politics, tight deadlines, sectoral competition, race for promotion… What about pshychological challenges? Your fears, insecurities, dissatisfaction and others’ perceptions of your success… Too many things to think and fear about.

A recent study shows that even trained young people do not prefer working in manufacturing. Companies complain of lack of skilled workers The salaries in the industrial and service sectors should be balanced, SETA’s recent work market survey says. With many Turkish companies struggling to find enough well-trained employees, many …