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• Recruitment and Talent Acquisition: Sourcing, interviewing, and hiring employees for positions in various departments including FOH and BOH.
• Employee Relations: Addressing employee concerns, conflicts, and disputes, promoting a positive and safe working environment, and ensuring compliance with labor laws and regulations.
• Benefits and Compensation: Administering employee benefits, including health insurance, life insurance, transportation, and paid time off. Negotiating compensation packages with new hires and ensuring that employees are compensated.
• Training and Development: Identifying training needs and facilitating employee development opportunities. Designing and delivering training programs to improve employees' skills, knowledge, and job performance.
• Employee Records and Data Management: Maintaining accurate and up-to-date employee files and data, including employee records, time and attendance, and payroll information.
• Succession Planning: Identifying and developing employees with high potential for future leadership roles. Ensuring that the company has a talent pipeline to meet future staffing needs.
• Employee Engagement: Fostering employee engagement and involvement in company initiatives. Implementing programs to recognize and reward employees for their contributions and achievements.
• Performance Management: Evaluating employee performance, conducting performance evaluations, and implementing performance improvement plans. Providing coaching and mentorship to employees to improve their skills and job performance.
• Policy Development and Implementation: Contributing to the development of company policies and procedures, such as dress code, code of conduct, and disciplinary procedures. Ensuring that all employees understand and adhere to these policies.

Partner with company leadership to develop and execute HR initiatives that promote a positive workplace culture and support business objectives.
• Manage the end-to-end hiring and training process for new employees, ensuring a seamless and engaging experience for both candidates and hiring managers.
• Continually develop and maintain HR policies and procedures that align with company values and promote a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace. Regularly educate employees on company policies and ensure the employee handbook is up-to-date.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to employees on HR matters, providing guidance on benefits, payroll, and other employment-related issues.
• Prepare and submit all necessary HR documentation, including letters, certificates, and reports, to ensure compliance with legal and regulatory requirements. Proactively identify areas of risk and recommend solutions to mitigate potential liabilities.

Provides information by answering questions and requests.
Maintains continuity of work operations by documenting and communicating neededactions to management; discovering irregularities; determining continuing needs.
Monitor office supplies inventory and place orders
Assist in the onboarding process for new hires
Coordinate with IT department on all office equipment
Oversee company’s project management system and update it
Acted as traffic controller within the design department

Provides confidential secretarial and administrative support for the principal executive orexecutives, to include managing the schedule/calendar, making travel arrangements, screening and handling telephone communications, and dealing with administrativeproblems and inquiries as appropriate.
Serves as a primary point of direct administrative contact and liaison with other offices, individuals, and external institutions and agencies
Composes and prepares written documentation and correspondence for the office; screensand evaluates incoming and outgoing correspondence and prepares responses asappropriate.
Coordinates and oversees the day-to-day management of supplies, equipment, andfacilities for the organization, as appropriate, to include maintenance, inventorymanagement, logistics, and related activities.
Responsible for staff payroll, vacations, end of service indemnities and business tripformalities
Maintain records of personnel-related data (payroll, overtime, personal information, leaves, etc.) in both paper and the database and ensure all employment requirements aremet
Supervise terminations, resignations and departing
Support the recruitment/hiring process
Prepare monthly manpower status report
Initiate contact with vendors to check availability of needs
Check shipments to ensure quality and quantity of purchased items
Responsible for maintaining a record of all outstanding purchase orders with vendors.
Monitor all purchase requisitions and handle adjustments with vendors
Coordinates imports and exports.
Responsible for purchase of all the imported items related to all company’s restaurantchains
Coordinate and supervise the purchasing process of all equipment, small ware, décor andspare parts.
Review freight rates: air, courier, and land

• Using a variety of software packages, such as Microsoft Word, Outlook, Powerpoint, Excel, Access, etc., to produce correspondence and documents and maintain presentations, records, and databases;
• Managing and maintaining invoicing system & assisting account managers with media planning
• Dealing with suppliers and other media agencies for services
• Liaising with staff in other departments and with external contacts;
• Ordering and maintaining stationery and equipment;
• Organizing and storing paperwork, documents and computer-based information
• Resolves administrative problems by analyzing information; identifying and communication solutions.
• Maintains rapport with customers, managers, and employees by arranging continuing contacts; researching and developing new services and methods; setting priorities; resolving problem situations.
• Maintains continuity of work operations by documenting and communicating needed actions to management; discovering irregularities; determining continuing needs.
• Accomplishes department and organization mission by completing related results as needed.

Working for CARAT ADVERTISING EST. as an Executive Assistant
• File and retrieve documents and reference materials
• Monitor, respond to and distribute incoming communications
• Liaise with internal staff at all levels
• Co-ordinate creative based work
• Recommending the most appropriate types of media to use, as well as the most effective time spans and locations.
• Identifying target audiences and analyzing their characteristics, behavior and media habits.
• Presenting proposals, including cost schedules, to clients.
• Making and maintaining good contacts with media owners, such as newspapers, magazines and websites.
• Maintaining detailed records.

Worked for International Journals of Applied Educational Studies (IJAES) as an Editorial Office Manager
• Build and manage international, highly prestigious academic Editorial Boards
• Promote article submissions, execute existing strategies, innovate and implement new strategies to promote article submissions
• Monitor the review process of scientific articles and ensure efficient follow-up
• Support authors and academic editors via email and phone