Faheem Akhtar , Talent Acquisition Specialist & Branding

Faheem Akhtar

Talent Acquisition Specialist & Branding

Al Kifah Holding

Location
Saudi Arabia - Khobar
Education
Bachelor's degree, Business Administration & Economics
Experience
10 years, 4 Months

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Total years of experience :10 years, 4 Months

Talent Acquisition Specialist & Branding at Al Kifah Holding
  • Saudi Arabia - Khobar
  • My current job since January 2016

Responsibilities: Establish a strong rapport with hiring managers at headquarters and in international field offices to understand their strategic staffing needs and fill vacancies in a timely manner. Ensure clear mutual
understanding of staffing priorities and practical constraints. Guide the hiring managers through the recruitment process where needed.

Work with hiring managers on Aramco Projects (manpower and engineers) to develop job descriptions and announcements, post advertisements in a variety of newspapers, list-serves, trade publications, networks, etc. including internationally focused sources. Recommend creative and alternative advertising venues strategies, defining, maintaining and promoting the company’s unique employer brand.

Generate a pipeline of top talent by leveraging advanced recruiting tools and techniques, passive recruiting, attendance at career fairs, and other proven methods.

Provide hiring teams with expert guidance and consultation on recruitment process, policy, technology, industry trends and best practices.

Conduct initial phone screens with candidates to assess skills and cultural fit and skillfully present candidate match & value to hiring team.

Partner with hiring managers to ensure outstanding candidate experience throughout entire recruitment life cycle.

Contribute to social media talent acquisition efforts and positively promote Vector Solutions brand.

Working on SAP (End user cycle of Recruitment)

Industry Types: Construction (Aramco Projects) Pre-cast Real Estate IT Technology Kifah Papers Products Kilo (Heavy machinery equipment’s) Tamweel (Car Financing) Redymix and blocks

Projects in 2017 & 2018:

Jizan Project Aramco (offshore port project cost 1.6 billion) Riyadh Project (Government Schools) Dhahran Housing Aramco Project (Phase 1 and Phase 2). Ras Al-khair Aramco Project Cost 700 Million. Jubail C1 and C2 Project.

New Projects in 2019: KFPUM project Business Park cost 2.4 Billion. Tanajeeb Project. Jeddah Microsoft project

Recruitment Specialist & Training at Al Sorayai Group
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • November 2014 to October 2016

Responsible for full life cycle of Recruitment process. ▪ Prepare, update and revise the annual recruitment budget ▪ Control/recommend legal actions and conduct high level Investigation. ▪ Control/Direct Job Analyst, Job description, Job Evaluation, build new grading structure and salary scale along with compensation guidelines. Improving Policy and procedure for related area to HR, Involved in budget & manpower planning. Consultancy & review all of the job interview, Job offering internally and external for different job titles. ▪ Sourcing suitable candidates through various job portals like Bayt, Gulf talent, Linkedin, Naukri Gulf. ▪ Screening, coordination, scheduling & interviewing candidates to assess skill match. ▪ Conducting telephonic or personal interviews with the candidates and getting preliminary information regarding salaries, availability, notice period, experience, expected etc. ▪ Salary and Notice period negotiation and follow up with the candidates till they join the organization ▪ Recruits, interviews, tests and selects employees to fill vacant positions. ▪ Ensure compensation and benefits are in line with company policies and legislation. ▪ Plans and conducts new employee orientation to foster positive attitude towards company goals ▪ Develop, implement, and monitor training programs within an organization. ▪ Supervise technical training for staff. ▪ Create testing and evaluation processes. ▪ Evaluate needs of company and plan training programs accordingly. ▪ Manage staff of classroom facilitators. ▪ Provide logistical support, course development, delivery, evaluation, process measurements, and cost management. ▪ Plan the implementation and facilitation of activities and events, budget spending, material production and distribution, and other resources to ensure that operations are managed within authorized budgets. ▪ Responsible for ensuring all Employees are employed in accordance to the Law and regulation that they have a valid Visa and Passport at all times to avoid violation.




Key Accomplishes: ● Hired over 100 new staff members in 2014-15 with a retention rate of above 85% for the year. ● Assisted HR Manager in revising the company policy manual in coordination with other staff members. ● Successfully coordinated numerous HR events for the staff including “Employees Annual Achievements Day”, multiple guest speaker sessions, seminars, conferences, trainings, employee retreats, etc. ● Awarded for increasing retention rate from 60% to 85% on the “Employees Annual Achievements Day 2014”.

Recruitment Specialist at Mayader
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • January 2014 to November 2014

Recruitment & Staffing. We have large database of experienced professionals as well as fresher's. We can help the companies for recruitments in every field and from every part of Saudi. Every dept. has experts from different fields. This helps in the short-listing of the quality candidates. The candidates are not only checked up on academic grounds but all soon their personality traits.
▪ Maintains knowledge of legal requirements and government reporting regulations affecting human resources functions and ensures policies, procedures and reporting are in compliance. ▪ Recruits, interviews, tests and selects employees to fill vacant positions. ▪ Plans and conducts new employee orientation to foster positive attitude towards company goals. ▪ Keeps records of benefits plans participation such as insurance and pension plan, personnel transactions such as hires, promotions, transfers, performance reviews, and terminations, and employee statistics for government reporting. ▪ Trains management in interviewing, hiring, terminations, promotions, performance review, safety, and sexual harassment. ▪ Advises management in appropriate resolution of employee relations issues. ▪ Responds to inquiries regarding policies, procedures and programs. ▪ Administers performance review program to ensure effectiveness, compliance and equity within organization. ▪ Administers salary administration program to ensure compliance and equity within organization. ▪ Administers benefits programs such as life, health, dental and disability insurances, pension plans, vacation, sick leave, leave of absence, and employee assistance. ▪ Investigates accidents and prepares reports for insurance carrier. ▪ Conducts wage surveys within labor market to determine competitive wage rate.
Recruiting: (Construction - Building and Engineering, Oil & Gas, Finance, Supply Chain, Logistics & Procurement, IT and Telecommunications, Sales & Marketing, Accountancy and Finance, Hotels -Restaurants)

Education

Bachelor's degree, Business Administration & Economics
  • at National CollegePakistan International School
  • May 2019

(2015)

Specialties & Skills

Marketing
Teamwork
International Development
Corporate Finance
Asset Management
GOVERNMENT
RECRUITING
STAFFING
ADVERTISING
BUSINESS SOLUTIONS
DELIVERY
FINANZAS
INVESTMENTS
Oracle ERP

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert
Urdu
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