Category Archives: News & Events
Last Thursday, Nandimobile, a start-up from the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) in Ghana, won a “Best Business” award at the LAUNCH conference in San Francisco, in competition with almost 100 Silicon Valley start-ups!
About MEST
Located in Accra, Ghana, MEST provides training and mentoring for aspiring African software entrepreneurs with the goal of creating wealth and jobs locally in Africa. Established in 2007, MEST is a non-profit NGO that is funded by Meltwater Group through its non-profit Meltwater Foundation.
During the intensive two-year program at MEST, Entrepreneurs-in-Training (EITs) work with experienced business executives, university graduates and current MBA students from top universities worldwide to…
Exciting news from Germany: This week Meltwater was announced as winner of the “Great Places to Work” Award in Germany. Meltwater was ranked 27th out of the top 100 companies across all different industries – amongst them well-known companies such Accenture, 3M, Microsoft, O2 as well as other SMEs like Telecom Systems, Dis Ag and Tchibo.
Ursula von der Leyen, the Employment Minister in Germany congratulated all winning companies and acknowledged the high satisfaction rate of their employees.
The Great Place to Work institute is an independent organization that rates workplaces based on an anonymous internal employee survey (2/3 of overall rating) and…
Australia: definitely more famous for Steve Irwin, gorgeous beaches and an insanely large selection of deadly spiders than for its graduate market. However, Australia actually has a healthy graduate market that is set to grow by 40% in the next 12 months. Earlier this month I joined some 300 other graduate employers at the Australian Association of Graduate Employers 2010 Graduate Recruitment & Development Conference in Melbourne where I got an in-depth look into the wonderful world of graduate recruitment.
It was the first time a representative from Meltwater attended this event, and I was all ready for 3 days of networking, workshops…
Meltwater is a company that is built on entrepreneurial spirit and this is evident across all levels of the company today. In Asia, we have seen some inspiring accomplishments from young professionals in the last four years. We expanded across six countries, each with a unique language, culture, and business environment.
The Meltwater Movers & Shapers Competition (MMSC) is designed to empower the potential of young people across Asia encouraging them to show drive and passion in presenting their ideas. The contest asks students to identify a common problem faced in every day life and present a creative solution for a chance to win…
Last month, Oxford University organized a special graduate fair in Berlin in conjunction with Berlin Free University, Cambridge University, Imperial College London and the London School of Economics. The goal of the event was to help the German students from these schools find employers in their home country.
This event was a great opportunity for Meltwater’s German offices to meet interesting graduates and to present our company as an outstanding career opportunity.
After leading our New Zealand office for a year as the Managing Director, I have now returned to the German speaking region and have taken on a more strategic role as the Recruitment…
