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InternsME Rebrands to Oliv, Personalising Career Support to Help Tackle Youth Unemployment in MENA Region

InternsME has announced it is rebranding to Oliv as part of its goal to construct the clear-cut profession support made the youth.

With youth unemployment rates in the Middle East and North Africa currently at 29.3%, inning accordance with the World Bank [1], virtually twice the global average, Oliv is making use of innovation to empower young neighborhoods by linking talented trainees and new graduates to leading companies for internships, part-time and graduate jobs.

Announcing the new name, new technology and the very same mission at an event on Wednesday 4 April at the Young people xHub in Jumeirah Emirates Towers, Jean-Michel Gauthier, CEO of Oliv, said: "Oliv is home to thousands students and graduates scattered throughout the region, who each have their own individual set of skills, passions and unique characters. We are striving to help match them to the appropriate professions and help obtain their feet on the first called of the career ladder.

" We all know that beginning a job was never ever very easy and today, it's never ever been tougher. But more than 1,000 organisations, consisting of startups and worldwide identified organisations, usage and depend on us to assist them hire the best emerging skill to expand their business, preserve a healthy talent pipe and decrease personnel turnover."

The occasion was a chance for trainees and graduates from the UAE and the rest of the world to come together with employing managers from organisations such as Maersk, Al Nabooda Autos, PwC, Beehive, RAK Bank, The Fund, Dubai SME, Bosch, Dubai Angel Investors, DMCC, Danzas and APCO, with lots of participating in demos of the new online platform and the CV workshops.

Set to be rolled on Sunday 8 April, Oliv's new platform will certainly be available for pupils, fresh graduates and young professionals, and with an enhanced search time of simply 12 nanoseconds, it will certainly be the fastest career platform experience in the world.

Oliv facilitates in more than 1,000 interviews every month and has collaborated with over 1,000 organisations from throughout the world including Emaar, Canon, Careem, Sephora, Bosch, Turner, ICBC and DMCC. The platform stimulates the GCC's young people economic situation with more than 300 new tasks a month, targeted totally at youths.

In October 2017, InternsME was the very first recipient of the Mohammed Bin Rashid Innovation Fund, an initiative by the UAE's Ministry of Financing that helps bridge loan spaces for the UAE's many innovative firms.

Gauthier added: "Innovation is truly at the heart of whatever we do. Our new name was inspired by young olive trees which need nurturing and care in their very early days yet have extraordinary potential to expand and prosper, in addition to the globally recognised symbol of hope.

" From the greatest gift offered by Mount Olympus, to the tale of Noah's ark and its position on the United Nations flag, the olive tree has a purposeful place in history and a relevance in today's culture."

Oliv provides employers with an innovative choice to costly employment firms and oversaturated task boards by supplying a community of candidates that have actually been independently screened for their abilities, capacities, demographics, effectiveness and characters.

From the candidates point of view, they receive access to positions based on benefit rather than personal connections, one to one assistance, interaction and training from the Oliv group. Moreover, they could send video clip Curricula vitae which permit their characters to be electronically communicated and bring their credit to life.

Caption: InternsME has actually rebranded to Oliv, the fastest career platform on the planet, supplying personal support to young people in the MENA region

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