ashish saluja, Manager – Talent Acquisition

ashish saluja

Manager – Talent Acquisition

DAMAC Properties

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Master's degree, HR
Experience
10 years, 0 months

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Total years of experience :10 years, 0 months

Manager – Talent Acquisition at DAMAC Properties
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • May 2011 to April 2015

A leading business group based in Dubai with operations across 16 countries. They are involved in Real Estate, Hospitality, Food, Catering, Investments, Insurance and other smaller business units
Notable Accomplishments:
 Develop a research methodology to map the industry for senior level assignments
 Lead and train a team of junior researchers
 Manage the end to end recruitment process for all junior to mid management role
 Positions closed so far
o CEO - Food Business
o Head of Commercial
o GM - Technical
o SVP - Projects
o SVP - Hospitality
o Leads Manager
o Director of Sales
o Sr Mechanical Engineers
o Sr Electrical Engineers
o Quantity Surveyors

Recruitment Consultant at Offshore Marine Services
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • October 2010 to May 2011

Recruiting technical and sales people in the Oil & gas Industry for clients across GCC

Associate Client Manager at Synergy Executive Search
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • January 2008 to October 2010

Synergy Executive Search is a UAE (Abu Dhabi) based search consultancy with domain expertise in several industries. Some of our most prominent arms looks at Talent Acquisition in the Field of Sustainable Energy, Environment & Climate Change, property Development, Construction, banking and Retail.

Job Responsibilities:
• New Business Initiatives.
• End to End Recruitment
• Head Hunting for Senior Level Assignments(using sites like LinkedIn, Zoominfo, Spoke and researching in depth on the web)
• Screening of resumes.
• Interviewing all candidate
• Reporting
• Hiring of internal Staff
• Additional Responsibilities: Assist CEO in decisions related to infrastructure(IT, telephony, etc), Helping in designing apt advertising strategy, coordination with different vendors, Maintaining a complete record of all new business activities by the company
• Networking with industry specialists at different forum, have attended a conference in Singapore on CDM, Have attended the WFES’08, and other property conferences in the UAE

List of Positions worked on
1. Head - Projects for property developers
2. VP - Master Planning for major property developers
3. VP - CRM for property developers and banks
4. Head - Development for major property developers
5. Commercial Department Head for major Renewables company in UAE
6. Various Middle management positions in the field of Project management, construction, quantity surveying, design for property developers
7. CDM specific positions for renowned client
8. Niche positions like Policy advisors, UAE National specific positions

Consultant at Manpower Services India Pvt Ltd
  • India
  • August 2006 to December 2007

1. Meeting the clients for generating business, for both new and existing clients.
2. Understanding requirements for various positions
3. Sourcing, Headhunting and Coordinating with Clients for specific positions.
4. Mobilizing human resources through various means such as Job Portals, Headhunting, Advertising, References, Job Posting on Job Portals and Existing databank.
5. Involved in large-scale recruitment activities involving searching, filtering, short listing of resumes and scheduling personal interviews.
6. Conducting interviews & Scheduling tests for short-listed candidates.
7. Coordinating interview as per the client’s requirement
8. Offer negotiations and taking feedback from the client and the candidate with regards to the interviews taken.
9. Do reference checks if needed.
10. Collection of dues from clients, follow up for next requirement.

Management traniee(Territory Manager) at Ingersoll rand
  • Iceland
  • June 2005 to July 2006

Profile: To work in a project based environment for the different business segments to help develop marketing strategies for the respective businesses like Compact Vehicle Technologies, Construction Technologies & Industrial Technologies.

Major Responsibilities:

1. To handle all the pre and post sales activities of Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies (Integrated System Solution) Business in Tamil Nadu and Kerala region.
2. To integrate the new acquired business and align it to the global standards of Ingersoll Rand.
3. To develop the systems for the clients based on their requirements and specifications and submitting the final proposal to them.
4. Handling the technical team and co-ordinating their activities at the clients end.
5. Maintaining the records for all technical staff and co-ordinating with the HO for urgent manpower requirements.

Projects Undertaken at Ingersoll Rand:

1. Market Feasibility study for battery operated vehicles in different markets like Military, residential, IT companies and Educational Institutes’
2. Study and review of the Business Travel Policy at Ingersoll Rand
3. Setup office and operations in Chennai of Ingersoll Rand Security Technology Division
4. Market Research on Access control system in Tamil Nadu and Kerala Market.

Education

Master's degree, HR
  • at SCMS, Kochi
  • April 2005

CGPA = 2.79 out of 4 Won awards in HR Game at inter college events Best Campus placement for the Batch Presentation on changing situation of HR in the corporate world

Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering
  • at GVP College of Engg
  • May 2002

Percentage = 67.6% Won 1st prize in national technical paper presentation for "MPFI Systems"

Specialties & Skills

Recruitment
Headhunting
Conducting Interviews
Executive Search
Human Resources
Recruitment, Executive Search
MIS REPORTING
Talent management
Team Management

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Expert
Arabic
Beginner
Bengali
Beginner

Hobbies

  • Cooking