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Danish Refugee Council

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Forget HQ support - Anonymous employee Danish Refugee Council Employee Review

3.0
Sep 2, 2016
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Salaries are good, depending on the Head of Office or Country Director the atmosphere can be quite relaxed, considering you're working in a (post) war zone. Lots of training opportunities.

Cons

HQ is virtually non existent, no support at all, only automated "thank you for your email" messages. Recruitment for some positions is done without opening a vacancy, so no matter what the agreement with your HoO/CD was, if he/she decides not to put forward your name for a position, you will only know there was a chance after it has been filled.

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Danish Refugee Council Response
9y
Dear colleague, I am very sorry to hear that you had a negative experience as employee of DRC. In regard to HQ support, we would very much like to hear what you felt was missing. We have a regional/decentralized structure, and our aim is that our regions should be as self-running and self-reliant as possible. It may, at times, therefore seem as HQ does not offer enough support. But oftentimes, that is because many of the responsibilities lie in our regional hubs. In terms of recruitments, we have a very strict recruitment policy which defines when roles are advertised, and a formalized Code of Conduct mechanism for when there are breaches. Again, I encourage you to contact us directly so that we can look further into this and see what went wrong. All the best, Marcos Talent Management Team HQ talent@drc.dk

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