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The recent global downturn led to company mergers, bankrupt firms and layoffs which have forced white-collar workers to make new plans about their lives.Many white-collar Turkish professionals working in United States and European countries are now seeking ways to return home after the global financial downturn in 2007, human resources …

Turkey’s unemployment rate fell to 9.9 percent in April. That is good news. The government’s long-term target is 5 percent. To realize this, there will be some changes in the legal framework shaping the labor market. The first attempt might be to introduce an “easy fire, easy hire’’ approach in …

A rising demand for employees in Turkey indicates that the global economic crisis is having less and less of an impact on the country’s economy, according to the chairman of a prominent career website. “The crisis [effects] have diminished and the [need for] employees has risen,” Okan Tütüncü, the general …

HR Excellence Awards 2011 – Best HR strategy from overseas: TurkcellIn 2010, Turkcell, the leading operator of mobile communications and technology in Turkey, changed its employee proposition to ‘I have much more in Turkcell’ to underpin its new customer positioning, ‘More life with Turkcell’. As part of the strategy, the …

Women in Turkey are happier than men, according to recent data that has contradicted academics’ opinions that argue the report is a manipulation tool that only proves people are happy about Turkish policies. According to a study called “Women in Statistics,” while 53 percent of women are happy, 51 percent …

In its report the newspaper quoted a leading professor from İstanbul Bilgi University and claimed that there are now 200,000 European Union citizens employed in Turkey. Migration into Turkey from Europe, where a number of members of the euro common currency area have been struggling with serious debt crises since …

How to help executives make well-informed decisions about the workforce Top Business Challenges for Today’s CEO The current economic environment has forced CEOs to focus almost all of their attention on revenues and profitability. They must be very aware of what competitors are doing— and competitors can be anywhere in …

There are some companies that encourage employees to have a healthy work-life balance. A happy worker, so goes the thinking, is a productive worker.Yet, with the rise of social media, there is more personal information about individuals available on the web than ever before.As a result, the lines between work, …

“HR people tend not to be very analytical; they don’t do numbers.” This is how one consultant describes his relationship with a human resources director client.But although heads of HR are often respected for being “people people”, the job is increasingly analytical.HR departments already have access to significant sources of …

John Sweeney makes no bones about it. “Thirty years ago, HR was a backwater operation,” says the human resources veteran who now works at the Society for Human Resources Management near Washington.“It was totally paper-oriented. In the old days you used to put an [advertisement] in the paper, saying ‘we …