Hashem Elassad

Projects include:
• Query Writing Competition by Social Intelligence Lab, YouScan & Listen & Learn Research (3rd place out of 128 Contestants)
• Currently co-authoring a book on language-market fit (audience intelligence) with
Eitheriel Demere
• Researching educational theories, challenges and solutions for EduArabia.
• Research piece on Clearer Thinking: curating stories of scientists who admitted mistakes. +100 shares between X & Facebook
• Reporting on Qatars Expo2023 as part of the Tarjama team (interviews + observational research)
• Brand Ambassador for Correlation One - USA + Jordan (Remote) built 42% of applicants pipeline (1700+ total) for a training program; #1 Ambassador in terms of performance (Sep. 2022)
• Tarjama analyst: Summarized & reported 7 sessions in The MISK Global Forum (Nov 2022)
• Researched and curated 15 data action projects for Jordan & Lebanon in the SDG acceleration project
• Host of the Not your typical questions with Hashem show where I ask people strange questions
• Thought leadership by writing articles with Performance Leader (Australian Company)
• Finding remote jobs for clients of Jordan Carroll, The Remote Job Coach (hundreds of jobs)
• Creating a value impact assessment for a school in Jordan which involved recruiting volunteer experts and consultants (50+ questionnaire items, 930 alumni, 23 graduating classes) (I received a 50% payment increase due to performance)

• Researching engaging training platforms for team-building and facilitating the partnership between Talentology Training with Go Remote (The Virtual Team Building Platform; Already had a joint event with a major Telecom company: 100 Participants, 5 hosts)

Educational Researcher, Salalem Learning; Amman, Jordan—August 2019-November 2020
• Content Curation and Writing:
• Curating & writing content marketing articles for Salalems workforce readiness blog \[35+ articles\] that was used for social media for topics including career development, learning technology and competency frameworks.
• Writing reports including knowledge acquired about SEO, thought leadership and research sources for articles

Business and product development research:

• Researching education-related business opportunities, leads, partners, and similar products.

• *Selected Achievement: Business partnership through connecting Salalem to Intellect Coaching School. It became Salalems partner in Egypt.

• Researching, analyzing, editing, translating, curating and creating content for ofline and online courses & programs including content for people development
• Example: Kashaf --- Talentologys video about spotting talents in children which made it to Qomra show by Ahmad Al-Shuqairi, famous media personality in the Arab world). My responsibility was researching ideas for the experiments. Around 10, 000 views on YouTube, and tens of thousands saw the video on MBC.

• Researching business partnerships, Identifying targets on an international level:
• Example ISOC --- Found and connected Dubais ISOC to Talentology. Now one of Talentologys most important clients. More than 25 days of training in UAE with the biggest companies in UAE through ISOC.

• Preparing reports on Eastern Mediterranean Public Health Networks (EMPHNET) progress especially for funders.

Mainly responsible for understanding and researching educational systems for the purpose of adopting an alternative
educational system that will be implemented for clients.

• Research topics: e-learning in medical colleges, Saudi Arabian colleges, pedagogy, Blooms taxonomy, alternative educational systems.

Responsible for locating Arab youth institutions especially in the Gulf countries and connecting them to Talentology.

Responsible for locating companies in the Gulf countries and connecting them to Talentology.

Translated documents from Arabic to English and from English to Arabic.

Advised staff on the proper and idiomatic use of the English language.

Searched for training material (images and video clips).

Contacted Western institutions in order to develop personality assessments that Talentology uses.