A new report, Future of work: Turkey’s talent transformation in the digital era, dives deeper on the issues. It examines the impact of productivity growth driven by automation, AI, and digital technologies on different sectors and occupations. It also addresses the opportunities that will emerge to transform Turkey’s talent marketplace and the challenges that the … Continue reading
From 2009-2012 the country created some 3.5 million jobs while employment in the European Union fell by 2 million during the same period Continue reading
New SAP ‘Shared Service Centers’ are currently being developed in India and Turkey. Daimler IT is placing great emphasis on the skills of its own employees while expanding the facilities. In the new Shared Service Center,Daimler will create 800 new IT-jobs in Bangalore by 2015. Positive effects on IT suppliers and the IT sector in … Continue reading
Some 1.5 million new jobs have been created in the last four years for women in non-agricultural sectors in urban areas, according to an employment report released by the Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey (TEPAV) yesterday. While some 3.4 million women worked in non-agricultural sectors in June 2009, this number increased to around 4.9 … Continue reading
The number of Turkish researchers living abroad who applied to the science scholarship program to return to the country keeps rising, Technology Minister Nihat Ergün has said. The Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) launched a research fellowship program targeting Turks living abroad to entice them back home. Ergün said 117 researchers applied … Continue reading
The last day of work has come for about 1,000 employees of a House of Raeford Farms turkey plant in Hoke County. The last workers start their layoff Thursday afternoon in the rural region where unemployment was 9.2 percent in June. The plant has been processing poultry since the 1950’s and some employees have worked … Continue reading
Turkey has the highest proportion of young people neither in employment nor in Education or training (NEETs) among Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries, according to the OECD Continue reading
The worst employment numbers are in Turkey among all OECD countries, according to a new survey of the organization. Employment levels are lowest in Turkey (48 percent), Greece (56 percent) and Hungary (56 percent) while are highest in Iceland (79 percent), Switzerland (79 percent) and Norway (75 percent). Nearly 66 percent of the working-age population aged 15 … Continue reading