Speed dating helping refugees find jobs

Speed dating offers novel way to match applicants to jobs

Speed dating offers novel way to match applicants to jobs Source: SBS

It's speed-dating but at a completely different level. Mimicking speed dating at this previously untried event, a group of refugees was given five minute blocks of time to hopefully impress would be employers and job market professionals. The program set up by a newly arrived refugee from Syria is hoping to give recent arrivals a chance to break into the local job market. John Hayes Bell reports.



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