JAY THOMAS, SENIOR RECRUITMENT OFFICER

JAY THOMAS

SENIOR RECRUITMENT OFFICER

SPIE OIL AND GAS SERVICES

Location
Qatar - Doha
Education
Diploma, POST GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT (PGDHRM)
Experience
19 years, 8 months

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Total years of experience :19 years, 8 months

SENIOR RECRUITMENT OFFICER at SPIE OIL AND GAS SERVICES
  • Qatar - Doha
  • My current job since July 2012

Tasks:
Recruitment of Oil & Gas Disciplines (Upstream, Midstream and Downstream) domain within Middle East and
European Countries.
Managed a high volume of requirements across a variety of disciplines and at all levels.
Responsible for understanding the job specification, Head Hunting, Screening & conducting prelim, short-listing
& sourcing profiles, telephonic interviews, reference checks for the candidates, Follow ups for the feedback,
confirmations and joining.
Core jobs is to recruit of Western & Eastern National, i.e. sourcing/identify/selection of candidates using various
sourcing strategies.
Ensuring to follow the KPI’s as instructed by Recruitment Manager.
Tracking Project Manpower cycles, monitoring the excess availability or redundancy of the competence
available for deployment and initiate action accordingly
Preparing Job Description for the requisition received from the immediate managers from the counterpart
countries and thereby posting an advertisement for the said position.
Supporting Business Development team in preparing & planning of all major tenders & bids as they pertain to
talent acquisition requirements of the Qatar SBU.
Sourcing the right candidate through various tools like Job Boards and Networking Portals like Expat Engineer,
Oil & Gas Job Search, Naukri.com, and LinkedIn Recruiter for maximum utilization of available resources.
Deciding the Advertising Media; Responsible for the creation of external adverts; posting job vacancies on the
company website, internet job boards, major Oil and Gas magazines, journals and websites. Fully responsible
for releasing the advertisement in local & international newspapers by taking the cost implications into
consideration
Negotiate salary with clients and candidates, frequent follow up with the candidates until they join the clients
and building good relationships with the clients on day to day basis.
Handling Pre-screening to placement functions of the job openings. Analyzing the requirement technically and
doing a Research for any position creating streamlining and maintaining databases for easy and prompt access.
Keep updated the open job positions and screen resumes in the company’s software - regularly Screen
resumes in the resume inboxes In-house recruitment coordination

Conducting meeting with agencies, giving them confident and making them to work with more enthusiasm and
confidence for a good business success of the projects.
Implementing local and overseas recruitment campaigns in countries like, Qatar, UAE, India, Philippines, Korea,
Malaysia, Srilanka etc. to fill the staffing needs of the project.
Utilize the database and personal network for generating leads & referrals.
Vendor Management
 In House Recruitment Activities.
 Preparing weekly/monthly & Annual recruitment reports & MIS.

Projects involved included Greenfield/ Brownfield

Qatar Petroleum (CSF, NKOM Project)
 SHELL Pearl GTL Project
 RAS GAS BARZAN GAS PROJECT
 RAS GAS FAP Project ( Onshore & Offshore)
 New Doha Port Project (NPP)
 Qatar gas 3 & 4, WWR
 JGC Corporation - Barzan Onshore Project

SENIOR RECRUITMENT EXECUTIVE (OIL&GAS) at JERRY VARGHESE GLOBAL EXECUTIVE SEARCH
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • February 2009 to July 2012

Pro-actively participating to new business prospects development and account management in a target oriented environment.
Providing strategic recruitment and HR solutions and support to clients and candidates
Account management for clients and determining their specific recruitment needs.
Responsible for global sourcing of candidates in support of our clients requirements and manage the assigned process from receiving job orders from the Client Manager, and executing a structured recruitment process for the identification and sourcing of highly skilled professionals for our Clients projects.
Providing professional advertising services to clients.
Arranging Recruitment Campaigns for clients. Trunkey local/global recruitment campaigns.
Headhunting the specific targeted people for the senior level positions.
Manpower and Pay rolling services based on client requirements.
Managing the complete recruitment process from client meetings through to offer management and placement
Ensuring that both client & candidate objectives are met throughout the recruitment process.
Developing effective sourcing strategies for all skill pools to include Emiratization (UAE Nationals Recruitment).
Development of team in-house and training of new consultants, assigning projects and monitoring the team to ensure that monthly, quarterly and yearly assigned sales targets are met.
Managing recruitment across all of Middle East Operations for outsourcing / manpower contracting
Issuing employment offers / agreements to employees hired for secondment contracts.
Taking accountability for employee’s timely mobilization / demobilization.
Directing the PRO to obtain visit visas, employment visas and labor permits on time.
Ensuring adequate medical insurance and workmen compensation coverage for employees.
Conducting orientation for new recruits and also apprising them of Client and site conditions.

Sector Clients Positions Handled

Oil and Gas (Upstream): Kuwait Oil Company, KNPC, Qatar Petroleum, ENI, Repsol, PDO, Occidental Petroleum, Total

Oil and Gas (Downstream): SABIC Group, Eastern Petrochemical, Saudi International

Petrochemical Co. (SIPCHEM), Saudi Total Refining Company, Petro Rabigh, Sahara Petrochemical, Qatar
Petroleum, ADGAS,

Power, Water and Utilities:
Marafiq, Jubail Water & Power Co., GDF Suez, , CMS Power, ADWEA, DEWA, Rasgirtas, MPower, Tihma Power, international power

EPC/EPCM/PMC: Bechtel, Samsung Engineering

RECRUITMENT TEAM LEADER (OIL & GAS) at e-Connexions, LLC
  • India - Mumbai
  • October 2006 to February 2009

My Rich Experience on following areas
Resource management
Recruitment
Account management,
Account mining,
Training & Development,

Account Mining & Resourcing: Interfacing with key client leaders on identifying and closing new and additional opportunities for Fulfilling the requirements from with available resources.
BG Verification and Medical: Individual background check and medical test done for selected people and final on boarding. Invoicing / Billing: Effort capture and billing for both Professional Service project and Milestone based projects. Final submission of the invoices to the client for payment and collection of due and overdue payments. I have worked for one of the prestigious clients of MRINetwork™ the Merwin Group. I worked on various Job Boards like Monster, Hot jobs, Career builder and Dice etc, I am thorough with the Boolean usage, screening and short-listing against the position description provided by the client. And also search passive candidates. From hoovers spoke seachexpo, lexis nexis zoominfo. As Resource Manager my responsibilities are to maintain the quality level of the information searched by the researchers. And evaluating candidates & scheduling their interviews. And also full responsibility Technical recruiting functions, including candidate sourcing and qualification; technical screening; salary negotiations. Reference checks, end to end recruitment closing candidates. Handled the full life cycle recruiting process.

HR Executive Recruitment (OIL & GAS) at BPS, LLC
  • India - Mumbai
  • November 2005 to October 2006

Manage the full cycle recruitment process for Oil & Gas job opportunities
Identify recruiting resources, source and qualify candidates
Review and examine Job Descriptions/Job Requirements of all positions to be filled, ensure that applicants comply to established minimum qualifications criteria.
Developed interview guides, interviewed all final candidates, extended job offers and on boarded hires.
Conduct preliminary screening interviews of candidates, check references and background, assess and evaluate applicant’s qualifications. Coordinate second and third level interviews with technical and/or department representatives. Negotiate terms of hiring offer, selling candidates on opportunity while explaining company's benefits
Seasoned in Walk-in, Call-in and Online recruitment and selection.
Interviewing and testing job seekers to build a pool of people ready to fill vacancies (part of nationalization program).
Understanding Client’s requirement clearly in terms of job profile, years of experience, duration, compensation benefits.
Preparing advertisement and online job postings.
Make plan for recruitment methods. Use of in house data base for such requirement. Use of search engines for identifying potential candidates meeting the requirements.
Technical Screening of CV’s.
Arranging interviews with client - telephonic, personal.
Together with hiring managers, determine which candidates are best fits for the company's needs
Compile and analyze recruitment statistical data, including cost of recruitment, recruitment success rates (acceptance vs. rejection), retention and turnovers rates, and identifying sources of retention problems.

HR Executive at DOLPHIN CONSTRUCTION LLC
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • July 2004 to November 2005

Dolphin Construction L.L.C. is a Abu Dhabi and Dubai (United Arab Emirates) based professionally managed
independent EPC & General Contracting Company www.dolphinuae.com
Duties & Responsibilities:
 Building the database through head hunting, reference and portals.
 Head hunting and maintaining a comprehensive data bank of all Technical and non technical professionals with
varied years of experience.
 Discussing roles with Project Directors/line Managers and establishing resource requirements for the projects.
 Preparing pipeline and resource planning for the list of current vacancies.
 Preparing job advertisements and liaising with advertising media and/or recruitment agencies.
 Utilising Website responses/Employee Referral Database to source candidates and manage talent pools.
 Working independently but consulting with Recruitment Team on difficult issues or strategies.
 Interviewing candidates over the phone and onsite with speed and efficiency.
 Actively assisting Project Directors with interviewing and other selection processes, ensuring appropriate hire
judgments are made.
 Maintaining and developing strong relationships with desirable candidates during the recruitment process,
ensuring that the Organization is perceived as an employer of choice.
 Negotiating offers.
Analyzing of recruitment strategies & their effectiveness also providing active support in formulation and
implementation of new ones when required.
 Coordinating with other members of the team.
 Sending the monthly recruitment report to HR-Director and HR-Manager.
 Maintaining the record of open and closed positions.
 Maintaining the probation record for new employee

Education

Diploma, POST GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT (PGDHRM)
  • at Symbiosis institute of Management Studies
  • June 2013
Bachelor's degree, Commerce & science
  • at G.G.D.U (university)
  • June 2001
Diploma, Diploma in system management
  • at APTECH
  • May 2000

Specialties & Skills

Recruitment
Staffing Services
Recruitment
MS Office
Windows XP NT
TALENT ACQUISITION
Oil & Gas
End to End Recruitment
Interviewing
Hunting
Oil and Gas
Sourcing
Staffing Services
Screening Resume
Negotiation

Languages

Hindi
Expert
English
Expert
Malayalam
Expert