Morocco • Employement
- Sector: Employement
- Headquarters Country: Morocco
- City: Casablanca
- Founding Year: 2012
- Operating Regions: Morocco
- Employees: 2 to 10
- Founders: Deborah MacArthur- Youssef Jaber
- Problem Identified: Stemming the tide of brain drain requires a deep commitment on many parts — a talented national having a promising opportunity, talented foreign nationals wanting to repatriate, and thriving organizations in which a person’s experiences and competencies align with corporate goals and culture. Global-Lights is just such a professional match-maker aiming to improve the Moroccan economy through multinational firms located there and Anglo-educated young professional Moroccans seeking corporate careers within their homeland. This is a boom for a niche market.
- Solution Offered: Global-Lights pays close attention to Anglo-educated Moroccans, both those living abroad and those earning an Anglo-influenced business education domestically. These individuals often have distinctive skills and abilities that closely match the needs of multinational corporations. Yet such particular capacities do not show up easily on resumes, and few recruiters know how to identify these best and brightest. Founder Deborah MacArthur thinks that the Moroccan market is still hiring based on a traditional, inefficient approach: huge files of resumes and few recruiters. “Frankly,” she explained, “in the files everybody looks the same.” So, Deborah teaches corporations and young professionals to notice each others’ value in new ways. “Here at Global-Lights, we realize that it’s not about the CV, it’s about you particularly. So, what’s innovative at Global-Lights is that we are teaching both sides, you (young professionals) and corporations, that it’s about your critical behaviors and your future contributions.” Specifically, Global-Lights has created a niche market between multinational corporations and Anglo-educated Moroccan professionals wanting to live and work in a global corporate environment in Morocco. As a hub for relationships between the Middle East and the West, multinational corporations continue to locate here. And for the country’s “stars” wanting suitable international challenges, the opportunity to locate at home makes all the difference
- Social Impact: Global-Lights contributes in helping the following: Anglo-educated professionals: When these Anglo-educated Moroccans come back home after spending a long time abroad, they feel that Morocco has changed and do not usually know how to integrate and find the right career that is suitable for them. They cannot find the career they are looking for because of the complications in the workplace when it comes to recruitment. Therefore, Global-Lights plays an important role here in helping them find the perfect match. Multinationals: Multinationals are now giving great feedback about the Anglo-educated professionals since these “stars” have distinctive skills and abilities that closely match the needs of multinational corporations. As a result, the multinational leaders now find talent in Morocco. Morocco: Morocco needs well-educated professionals to stay in the country and contribute in the development of the nation rather than going abroad and benefiting other countries. Therefore, through helping these Anglo-educated Moroccans find their careers and stay in Morocco, Global-Lights helps Morocco benefit from one of its most valuable assets: well-educated, talented professionals.
- Website: https://global-lights.ma/
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