Talent Acquisition Specialist
Infinity Group
Total years of experience :11 years, 6 Months
Working in the role of Group Talent Acquisition at Infinity Group, a conglomerate consisting of
approximately 30+ diverse businesses. These businesses encompass a wide range of sectors, including Owners associations, Contracting/ Construction, facility management, Real estate properties & Holiday Homes, Retail, and more.
• Spearheading talent acquisition efforts for the entire group by identifying and attracting top-tier
talent aligned with each business's unique requirements and growth paths.
• Collaborating closely with leadership teams across various businesses to comprehend their
specific staffing needs and ensure effective recruitment.
• Playing a pivotal role in crafting and executing recruitment strategies, encompassing tasks like
creating compelling job descriptions, conducting candidate interviews, negotiating job offers, and
ensuring seamless onboarding.
• Continuously monitoring and adapting to industry trends and best practices in talent acquisition to maintain competitive and efficient processes.
• Embracing the dynamic and challenging nature of the Group Talent Acquisition role at Infinity
Group, engaging with a diverse range of industries, and significantly contributing to the success
and growth of each business within the group's portfolio.
• Acting Lead Recruiter: Mentoring and overseeing recruitment and onboarding for Areen Middle East (Group) for GCC Markets, stake holder communications, planning hiring projects and Business as usual roles, redeployment of employees, planning overseas trips and arrange team meetings.
• Complete recruitment lifecycle: Managed role briefings, market research, candidate sourcing and screening, conducting interviews for local and overseas candidates, negotiating offers and advising visa process. Countries recruited for: UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain & Qatar.
• Search Optimization: With proactive direct sourcing through different channels like LinkedIn, ATS, job portals (Bayt and Naukri), employee and candidate reference database, referrals and advertisement and talent pipelining, managed to avoid any recruitment agency.
• Sourcing and Research: Pre-screened and interviewed candidates for management level roles across all disciplines for entire group
• Preparation, negotiating salaries, closing the candidates, and conducting reference checks.
Antal International is a global talent solutions specialist with more than 130 offices over 35 countries globally.
Roles & Responsibilities:
• Establishing relationships with key decision makers and account management for some of Antal’s key clients with capacity in both interim & permanent resources.
• Responsible for partnering with internal business development teams and clients to determine
• Recruitment needs, create staffing strategies, source and develop comprehensive strategies/campaigns to attract talent for major projects throughout the Middle East, Asia And Africa, with a focus upon UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, India, Ethiopia, Ghana, Etc.
• Responsible for the complete recruitment life cycle - sourcing, short-listing profiles, interview
• Preparation, negotiating salaries, closing the candidates and conducting reference checks.
• Candidate sourcing tools used were Internal Database, LinkedIn Recruiter, Job boards (Bayt & Naukri), referrals and advertisement.
• Facilitate the delivery of processes that enable the organization to meet client objectives; support hiring managers and proactively communicate with them throughout the talent acquisition cycle.
• Oversee the development and maintenance of an effective candidate pipeline and network of diverse key talent. Manage full lifecycle of the recruitment process and on-boarding.
• Responsible for recruiting mid to senior appointments, headhunting, bulk recruitment and internal recruitment.
• Responsible for training new employees on visa processes, local labor laws/regulations to ensure smooth on-boarding of the candidates.
• Assist with bids and proposals for new projects, work closely with internal Business Development teams and clients to understand their scope and requirements to supply the strongest staffing proposal.
• Establish and maintain relationships with key decision makers, meet the hiring managers and HR to discuss recruitment requirements and negotiate terms of business. Take detailed job briefs and manage expectations based on the availability of candidates in the market.
•Resolve customer complaints regarding sales and service.
•Monitor customer preferences to determine focus of sales efforts.
•Direct and coordinate activities involving sales of manufactured products, services, commodities, real estate or other subjects of sale.
•Determine price schedules and discount rates.
•Review operational records and reports to project sales and determine profitability.
•Direct, coordinate, and review activities in sales and service accounting and recordkeeping, and in receiving and shipping operations.
• Influences customers to buy services and merchandise by following a prepared sales talk to give service and product information and price quotations.
• Completes orders by recording names, addresses, and purchases; referring orders for filling.
• Maintains operations by following policies and procedures; reporting needed changes.
• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
• Create friendly, fast and accurate services in all customer interactions.
• Provide quality portfolio management service, through service, follow up and sales.
• To actively manage retention and growth of customers.
• Responsible to satisfy customer and maintain good image/reputation for the company.
• Update the existing databases with changes and the status of existing / prospective customers.