Meeting with Tesco
Tesco has invited us to their Supply Chain Meeting to tell our services and system and offer our services. We made a presentation to more than 40 of their supplier in agriculture and textile industries.
Meeting with Turkcell
We have visited Turkcell as a follow up of our coming together at the Tent meeting in Amsterdam. During the meeting, we have talked in depth about our project and possible collaboration. We will be supporting them on their yearly project focusing women web designers.
Meeting with TENT
TENT is following the developments in Turkey about refugees closely. It is very good chance to talk about the different practices in all over the world. We decide to make this brain storm activities in every quarter.
Meeting with Shop Direct
Shop Direct is a long-standing and valuable partner of United Work. As they had their international team visiting, they had the courtesy to meet us as well. We discussed in detail on the refugee employment processes, our collaboration with the team here and the challenges they face on the Asian
Amazon Visit
Mr. Emre KAYA from Amazon Inc. visited UW Office in Şişli and talk about the refugee recruitment for their Turkey team which is building newly. In further months we will visit their office in Levent to finalize the collaboration between two organizations.
Featured Positions and Companies of July 2019
Featured Positions: Ayyıldız Textile is hiring 20 Textile Worker ExtraTik Digital Agency is hiring a Business Development Officer and a Back-End Developer Hilton Hotels are hiring 45 people in various teams at their 3 separate hotel in İstanbul HD İskender is hiring 6 Commis Featured Placements: Rotana
Kadem the Closure Meeting of the Project
Ms.Burçin Oflu attended the closure meeting of the project “ Refugee Women Center” implemented by Woman and Democracy Association (KADEM). After the meeting, with project managers employment opportunities were discussed for the refugee women who got trained in the center.
Burçin Hatipoğlu-Boğaziçi University
Burçin Hatipoğlu who is Assistant Professor of Human Resource Management at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul visited United Work HQ to get deeper insight about the Economic Integration of Syrian Refugees for an academic research that she has been working on.
Save the Children Research
Mr. Mahmut Sansarkan who is livelihood coordinator of Save The Children visited United Work HQ to get deeper information concerned with livelihood activities of United Work. During the meeting dynamics of the field and recent conditions of the sector were discussed in order to be used in future needs assessments
Izza Leightas Interview
Izza Leghtas is doing a research for the advocacy NGO Refugees International on refugees’ access to work in Turkey. Regarding this matter, she held face to face interviews with some former UW trainees to have a better understanding of the remaining challenges refugees face in accessing legal work and how
