Jon Purizhansky | Buffalo News, New York

The African Union’s latest Joint Labour Migration Programme, a four year, sixteen million dollar effort dressed up in careful diplomatic language, is supposed to finally make labour migration inside Africa orderly and rights based. It promises better data, smarter policies, and smoother recognition of skills across borders. It reads like progress, yet it feels strangely detached from the everyday reality of the workers it claims to serve. For years, African migrants have crossed borders not because of regional frameworks, but despite their absence. They move to escape unemployment, low pay, or political instability, and they do it through informal brokers and opaque recruitment chains that leave them indebted and vulnerable. Development agencies and regional bodies now repeat the language of protection and portability of social security, but the day to day experience of most migrant workers is still one of confusion, risk, and very little transparency. The new programme acknowledges th...

 Joblio is a global platform created to make cross‑border labor migration transparent, lawful, and humane for both workers and employers. The company was founded by Jon Purizhansky , a lawyer and entrepreneur with deep experience in international labor and refugee issues. Mark Reimann serves as President of Joblio and brings a long career background with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), where he worked on immigration, enforcement, and compliance, helping shape his understanding of how to move workers legally and safely. The Problem: A Broken Migration System In the videos and related discussions available via Joblio’s YouTube channel, Joblio’s leaders describe how the traditional system of recruiting migrant workers often relies on opaque middlemen, high illegal fees, and false promises. Workers may sell assets or borrow at high interest just to secure a job abroad, only to find different wages, conditions, or even no job at all when they arrive. Employers, in turn, ...

  Ireland in 2026 is still a magnet for workers from around the world, especially in healthcare, technology, construction, farming and hospitality. At the same time, new rules are reshaping how people come to work in the country, and how employers are expected to treat them. Ireland’s new approach to labour migration Over the last couple of years, Ireland has overhauled its work‑permit system to make it more modern and flexible. Recent changes allow the government to update occupation lists and quotas more quickly, so permits can better match real shortages in the labour market. Rules for workers and employers have also been adjusted. People on many types of permits can now change employers more easily, the old “labour market needs test” has been simplified and moved online, and it is easier for a permit holder to be promoted without starting the permit process all over again. At the same time, the government has begun raising salary thresholds for work permits, to discourage under...

For decades, most college career centers in the U.S. have relied on the same recruitment playbook: career fairs, bulletin boards, and generic job boards that treat students much like they did in the 1970s. Meanwhile, employers face persistent talent shortages, especially for early‑career roles, and students struggle to turn their education into meaningful work quickly and efficiently. Into this gap steps Joblio.co , led by founder Jon Purizhansky , with a model that turns existing college–employer relationships into a modern, AI‑driven talent pipeline. A New Role for Donor Companies and Alumni Every private college already has two powerful but underused assets: corporate donors and alumni in decision‑making roles. These companies and leaders are used to supporting their schools financially, sponsoring events, or funding scholarships. With Joblio, they can support in a more direct and measurable way: by hiring students and recent graduates at scale. Instead of just writing checks, donor...

Ghana’s young workforce is increasingly targeted by fake recruiters and online scams, even as governments and employers search for reliable pathways to move talent safely across borders. This article outlines the problem, highlights documented fraud patterns, and explains how Jon Purizhansky ’s Joblio model of ethical recruitment can help governments, investors, employers, and job seekers reduce risk and improve outcomes. The scale of unethical recruitment in Ghana Ghana has a growing, educated youth population and a high demand for secure employment at home and abroad, which makes job seekers vulnerable to fraudulent offers that promise fast-track recruitment or overseas jobs. Public authorities report that online fraud, including job and recruitment scams, caused losses of over GH¢ 4.4 million in just the first quarter of 2025. • The Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) has repeatedly warned that sophisticated fake recruitment schemes now impersonate official agencies using copied logos, ...

 An Op-Ed on Israel’s Labor Shortage and the Technology We Need to Avoid Economic, Security, and Human Rights Disaster Israel’s postwar recovery and long-term security will be decided not on the battle field alone, but in the labor market. Today, Israel is confronting a labor shortage so severe that it threatens economic stability, national security, and the country’s moral standing — and without a radical shift toward ethical, technology-powered recruitment platforms like Joblio , the nation faces a slow-motion crisis that could undermine everything it has fought to protect. A Labor Shortage in a Country at War Since the exclusion of most Palestinian workers after October 2023, Israel has scrambled to fill massive gaps in construction, agriculture, caregiving, hospitality, and essential services by importing foreign labor at unprecedented scale. In 2025 alone, Israel issued approximately 61,000 new work permits to foreign workers, bringing the total migrant workforce to more ...

 Labour migration to Romania has become central to keeping the country’s economy running, especially in construction, manufacturing, trade, logistics and hospitality, but rapid growth has exposed serious regulatory gaps, corruption risks and worker abuse by unethical intermediaries. Ethical recruitment platforms like Joblio , led by CEO Jon Purizhansky , now play a key role in protecting migrant workers while helping Romanian employers fill chronic labour shortages transparently and in full legal compliance. Scale of migration and shortages Romania has shifted from being mainly a country of emigration to a major importer of labour from Asia and other non‑EU states in less than a decade. By late 2024, around 140,000 non‑EU workers, mainly from Nepal, Sri Lanka, Turkey and India, were officially employed in Romania, concentrated in construction, manufacturing, trade and hospitality. Non‑EU workers with residence permits for employment exceeded 136,000 by August 2025, with Nepalese an...

Joblio: How AI-Powered Ethical Recruitment Is Protecting Human Rights And Shaping The Future Of Work   In an era when global labor shortages and worker migration are accelerating, the recruitment industry stands at a crossroads. Traditional cross-border hiring has too often depended on opaque intermediaries, illegal fees, and practices that put vulnerable people at risk of human rights abuses. Joblio, the ethical recruitment platform founded by refugee-turned-entrepreneur Jon Purizhansky , is using advanced technology and AI-driven processes to build a fundamentally different model—one designed to protect workers while helping employers access reliable talent worldwide. Fixing a broken global recruitment system For decades, migrant workers have been exposed to predatory brokers, deceptive promises, and hidden recruitment fees that can trap them in cycles of debt and vulnerability. Many pay thousands of dollars just to secure a job abroad, leaving them indebted before they ever rece...