LinkedIn, Airbnb match refugees with jobs, disaster survivors with rooms


  • World
  • Wednesday, 18 May 2016

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As the refugee crisis was unfolding in Europe last year, the social impact team at professional networking site LinkedIn had an idea: why not use its expertise to connect the new arrivals with companies willing to employ them?

Early this year, LinkedIn launched "Welcome talent", a micro-site in English and Arabic that puts migrants to Sweden - which took in 163,000 asylum seekers in 2015 - in touch with local companies offering internships and jobs.

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