Remi Mekki, who graduated from the NEOMA Business School MSc in International Project Development in 2014, has just co-created the German recruitment platform MigrantHire. Its originality is that MigrantHire is reserved for graduate Syrian migrants looking for work in the Technology sector.

Syrian refugees and the German labour market: a former student develops a scheme to facilitate the recruitment of Syrian asylum seekers in “pressurised” companies.
The more than 1.2 refugees that have arrived in Germany since 2015 have been a godsend for sectors under pressure in terms of qualified workers. High-tech firms, for example, have more than 40 000 unfilled vacancies. But the challenge of matching job vacancies with suitable workers remains, in an uncertain, strictly regulated environment.
Remi Mekki, who graduated from the NEOMA Business School MSc in International Project Development in 2014, has just co-created the German recruitment platform MigrantHire. Its originality is that MigrantHire is reserved for graduate Syrian migrants looking for work in the Technology sector.

“At NEOMA Business School, we take the development of an entrepreneurial spirit in each one of our students very seriously, so we can only be very proud of this achievement”, explain Sandrine HENNERON and Anne-Sophie COURTIER co-directors of the MSc in International Project Development programme, from which Rémi graduated. With several start-up projects launched in the last two years, Remi Mekki is a genuine Norwegian serial-entrepreneur.

The idea was born when Remi met Hussein Shaker, a Syrian refugee and graduate from the University of Aleppo who was looking for work in Berlin.
The website, which brings together qualified job-seekers and firms, provides an appropriate, well-adapted solution to the problem. “Remi has shown great agility in developing the MigrantHire project, and his ability to anticipate change is a key competence that our curricula develop in all our graduates.”



The platform already has six staff, who help job-seekers with the whole of the process, from work permit to job interview.