Abram Habek, Senior Manager, resourcing

Abram Habek

Senior Manager, resourcing

Emirates NBD

Location
Qatar - Doha
Education
Master's degree, Human Resources
Experience
33 years, 8 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :33 years, 8 Months

Senior Manager, resourcing at Emirates NBD
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since August 2010

Heading the Resourcing Team for the Emirates NBD Group

Senior Recruitment & Manpower Supervisor at ASTAD Project Management
  • Qatar - Doha
  • My current job since April 2012

ASTAD Project Management is a Joint Venture between Qatar Petroleum and Qatar Foundation set with a vision to “To provide superior project management services across the region for complex and challenging infrastructure and building projects”

Reporting to the Chief Administration Officer, I joined ASTAD and played a key role in managing the setup of the HR Department while looking after the transition of the Recruitment and Manpower department from Qatar Petroleum to be fully independently operated by ASTAD.

While managing the day to day recruitment and manpower planning activities, I contributed to the HR Management team in setting up the HR Function, I did more of a generalist role participating to the review of policies and procedures, advising employees on new compensation and benefits packages, managed the transition of all employees from QP to ASTAD, Established the employee induction process, looked after employee relations and managed the implementation of the Oracle HRIS.

Associate Director, Recruitment and Human Capital Planning at Qatar Financial Centre Authority
  • Qatar - Doha
  • February 2007 to August 2010

Manage the Recruitment and Human Capital Planning Department for QFCA.

Head of Recruitment at Doha Asian Games Organising Committee
  • Qatar - Doha
  • May 2005 to February 2007

Managed a team of 27 employees in charge of recruitment operations for the Asian Games Volunteers Program

Manager, Employee Development and Recruitment at Commercial Bank of Qatar
  • Qatar
  • August 2002 to May 2005

Commercial bank is the 2nd largest bank in Qatar, the 1st private bank established in 1974 has grown to 18 branches, more than 600 employees with operations covering retail banking, corporate banking, investments and Islamic Banking.

As Manager, Employee Development and Recruitment I report to the Head of Human Resources and manage a team of 5 people with full responsibility over employee development, training and recruitment for Commercial bank.


Key responsibilities include:

- Managing a team of 5 members responsible for all bank's training and recruitment activities
- Budgeting and managing a training budget of QRs 10, 000, 000.00
- Managing all recruitment and manpower planning activities
- Developing and delivering Training programs to Staff
- Managing relationships with third party providers of training as well as government authorities
- Managing Commercial bank's Qatarisation Program and all initiatives related to the same
- Managing Commercial bank's management trainee program
- Conducting job evaluations, job analysis and developing Job Descriptions and Job Specifications
- Conducting one on one Staff counseling, coaching, mentoring and career advising

HR Officer at The Technical Support Office – Health Sector Reform Program
  • Egypt
  • August 2001 to July 2002

The Health Sector Reform Program is a program funded by the European Community with the purpose of reforming the health sector in Egypt.

In charge of setting the human resource strategies, man-power planning, training and development as well as all activities related to implementing Human Resource Systems in three pilot governorates.

HR Consultant at HR FIRST INTERNATIONAL
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • August 1998 to July 2001

A certified professional of human resources with HRIS experience, involved in all HR Consultancy work delivered to our clients in Egypt and the Middle East.
Experiences in Competency Based Recruitment, Job Analysis, Org. Diagnosis, Recruitment Assessment Centers, Development Centers, Training, Employment Issues, ...etc

HR Specialist at TGC International
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • May 1992 to August 1998

Administrator, Recruiter in charge of the Administration and Recruitment Dept.
Established the Recruitment Dept. Policies and Procedures plus other administration responsibilities, including drafting of employment contracts and translations

Assisstant to the GM at Alpha-Chem Phrama
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • May 1991 to April 1992

Personal Assistant to the General Manager, in charge of all administrative issues. Helped in automating the payroll system, designed and developed commission schemes.

Sales Representative at American Express
  • Egypt
  • October 1990 to May 1991

Sales Representative for the American Express Credit Card

Education

Master's degree, Human Resources
  • at Bradford University - School of Management
  • September 2011

MBA from Bradford University, School of Management with focus on Human Resources. Expected Graduation September 2010

Diploma, Certified Leadership Training Facilitator
  • at Achieve Global
  • October 2009

Certified Trainer by Achieve Global to deliver their Leadership and Softskills Training Modules

Diploma, Human Resources Strategic Management Executive Program
  • at Stanford University
  • September 2009

Executive Education Program at for Human Resource Executives at Stanford University, USA

Diploma, - Middle East Entrepreneur Training in the U.S. – MEET U.S
  • at Beyster Institute at the Rady School of Management, University of California
  • March 2005

• Qualified for and successfully completed a 3 week Scholarship Training Program "Middle East Entrepreneur Training in the U.S. – MEET U.S." sponsored by the U.S. Department of State's Middle East Partnership Initiative and delivered by the Beyster Institute at the Rady School of Management, University of California, San Diego, U.S.A., March 2005

Diploma, Certified Assessment Centers Facilitator
  • at Hay Group International
  • May 2004

A five days training program on the development of competency models, assessment centers and the facilitation of assessment centers, deleivered by HAy Group International.

Diploma, Leadership Training for Managers and Supervisors
  • at Dale Carnegies Training
  • May 2004
Diploma, Planning and Measuring Training Effectiveness
  • at Qatar Banking Training Institute
  • May 2004
Diploma, Effective Communications and Human Relations
  • at Dale Carnegie Training
  • April 2004
Diploma, 4th Annual Career Development Conference
  • at Institute for International Research
  • October 2003
Diploma, Effective Recruitment and Selection Skills for Bankers
  • at Qatar Banking Training Institute
  • April 2003
Diploma, Building the Balanced Scorecard: How- To Training Workshop
  • at Balanced Scorecard Collaborative
  • March 2003
Diploma, Managing Training Development
  • at TeamPower
  • September 2002
Diploma, Human Resources
  • at Human Resources Certification Institute
  • May 2000

Certified as a Professional of Human Resources - PHR

Diploma, Translation
  • at American University -Cairo
  • May 1996

Diploma in Legal and UN Translation

Bachelor's degree, Accounting/Business Admin.
  • at Ain Shams University
  • November 1991

B.SC of Commerce from Ain Shams University.

Bayt Tests

Human Resource Test
Score 75%

Specialties & Skills

School Management
Administration
Banking
Balanced Scorecard
MS Project
Wndows 95, 98, NT
Microsoft Word
MS Excel,Power Point,Access
MS FrontPage98, 2000
MS Project
Adobe Photoshop5.5
MS Outlook
Internet Explorer
JE Manager - Job Evaluation Software
Competencey Based Selection
Development and Delivery of Training
Facilitation of Assessment Centers

Languages

English
Expert
French
Intermediate
Arabic
Expert

Memberships

Egyptian Human Resources Management Association
  • Active member
  • January 2000
Egypt's Internet & Computer Users Group
  • Active member
  • January 1999
Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM), U.S.A.
  • Active Memeber
  • May 2000