CSR becomes the hot agenda for the Middle East Business

The increasing CSR awareness faces with the challenges as the lack of awareness in business community, lack of trained talents in CSR field and lack of Arabic materials. However every day we hear new CSR seminars, forums, trainings and meetings at different parts of the region like Dhahran, Dubai, Kuwait,Makkah, Qatar, etc. Regional Chamber of Commerces also introduced CSR initiatives to encourage regional companies to start CSR in their companies. We also have seen professional CSR reports from couple companies in 2010.

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Worldwide or Regional CSR?

Local culture and differences are the main players of the planning for product development, marketing, sales, after sales, etc stages as well as Corporate Social Responsibility Planning. Most of the global brands still makes global planning and marketing for their CSR initiatives. Local websites of the global brands, give link to the global CSR websites in order to introduce what they make for CSR and Sustainability worldwide. Does it really touch to the local people of the different regions inb the world? No..

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Social Responsibility Award goes to BRJ from International Finance Summit

Capturer of the "Corporate Social Responsibility Award" prize on Friday 1st December at the 9th Active Academy Awards under the Active Academy of International Finance Summit, BRJ was established in line with ALJ Community Initiatives activities. ALJ Community Initiatives aims to contribute to developing solutions opening in the world for a wide variety of geographies and social needs, social and economic well-being since ALJ Group is established.

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Long term social responsibility planning for the Middle East region

As we plan our business for a long term purpose, social responsibility plans also require a long term perspective. Most of the regional companies announce their CSR strategy for the coming year only. This way of short term planning does not help reaching to the planned results and does not bring expected benefit to any of the stakeholders. Vision and mission of the regional companies should be aligned with the CSR strategy.

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Future of the Middle East looks for job...

62% feel the high cost of living is their biggest concern 55% believe it is finding a job 87% think unemployment is a major problem in their country 45% say that their primary ambition in life is to complete their education 32% think their education system has not prepared them to find a job 39% think a good salary is the most important criterion in a job 22% think it is job satisfaction 65% want their governments to develop youth service programs in order to create economic opportunities for youth 62% want governments to promote youth entrepreneurs

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It is time to re-model the business and create more value

It is no longer enough to serve customers, employees, and shareholders. As corporate citizens of the world, it is our responsibility — our duty — to serve the communities where we do business by helping to improve, for example, the quality of citizens’ education, employment, health care, safety, and overall daily life, plus future prospects.

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One of the five applicants, got a job with BRJ in Turkiye

BRJ has launched job creation operation in Turkiye at late 2010. Since than, BRJ provides direct recruitment, vocational training and entrepreneurship training assistances from its branch in Istanbul. 5.000 job seekers applied to BRJ and 1.055 of them has got jobs through the job creation services of BRJ. 685 job seekers hired in a company, 104 job seekers got vocational training and employed after their graduations, 266 job seekers joined to entrepreneurship training and established their own companies.

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Dr. Fatih Mehmet GUL named as one of the 2011 TOP 100 THOUGHT LEADERS in Europe and the Middle East by Trust Accross America

Trust Across America™ (TAA), setting a standard for trustworthy business behavior, and the Centre for Sustainability & Excellence (CSE), a leading global advisory and coaching organization providing sustainability solutions, have selected 2011’s “Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business Behavior in Europe and the Middle East”. These people collectively represent a group that can genuinely transform and reverse the cycle of mistrust in business.

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Can a Car Distributor Bring Solutions to Fight with Poverty?

We are used to see industry related initiatives from businesses. If it is a business related to cars, than we expect to hear issues about carbon emission, environment, supplier audit etc.. How about poverty fighting initiatives from a car distributor?

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Self Employment in Middle East

Everybody remembers first to check the job ads, when we come to employment. Job descriptions, qualifications, responsibilities vary thorugh position features. It is a hard period to wait to wait the result after application; you should be the right person for position announced. You should have challenge with hundreds of applicants to get the job. Every failing result breaks your motivation.

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