Berlin, More than 14,000 jobs offered, around 1,500 job interviews and almost a million page views – that is the balance of the free job platform for refugees from Ukraine www.jobaidukraine.com after the first month.
On March 1, 2022, just a few days after the start of the war in Ukraine, www.jobaidukraine.com went live as a free, cross-industry job portal. The aim: to offer refugees from Ukraine quick and, if necessary, long-term perspectives in Germany. Within a very short time, thousands of jobs from a wide variety of industries were already online – from tech and digital economy to gastronomy, agriculture, trade, service industries to medicine and care. Well-known companies such as SAP, Deutsche Bank, Google, Douglas, IKEA, Hugo Boss, NewWorkSE, BabyOne, Rose Bikes, Sparkasse Bremen are among the job providers, as are many smaller and local employers.
“In Germany there is an immense shortage of skilled workers and there is a shortage of over a million workers in care, agriculture, gastronomy and the digital economy. At the same time, the integration of refugees can only succeed if people get work and prospects,” explains entrepreneur and initiator of the platform Marcus Diekmann (shareholder and advisory board member of Rose Bikes), co-founder Christian Weis (managing director of Business On) adds: “We are extremely pleased with the immense popularity that www.jobaidukraine.com has already experienced in the first few weeks and are continuing to work on it at full speed to expand the platform.”
www.jobaidukraine.com is implemented by dozens of volunteer experts from a wide variety of areas. In addition, strategic partners such as Deutsche Bank AG provide IT resources and know-how for the further development of technical functionalities, and other companies such as the Indeed job portal provide financial support. Other pro bono supporters of the project are the software developer Minubo and the shop software manufacturer Shopware. The agency vow to the new developed the corporate design, the law firm Kliemt supports JobAidukraine with legal questions.
JOBAIDUKRAINE is designed as a long-term project and has therefore also been rolled out internationally. In order to be able to make the platform available free of charge in the future, it will soon operate as a non-profit association under the name “Job Aid for refugees eV”.
Further updates and technical developments of the site are currently being implemented – the job search is being expanded with a more extensive keyword search and categorization, and interfaces are being created for companies that want to upload their job advertisements from their own portal directly to www.jobaidukraine.com. From next week there will also be a blog in which the refugees’ most important questions will be answered.
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The pro bono initiative “Handlers help traders” started in March 2020 when non-systemically relevant stationary shops across Germany had to close their shop doors due to the corona pandemic. To this end, leading medium-sized retail companies have set up a group on the LinkedIn careers platform, providing information and networking with entrepreneurs. The group now has over 4,600 members, including traders, trade and business associations, journalists and trade experts. In March 2022, the network launched the digital and free job platform for refugee Ukrainians JobAidUkraine.