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Islam Ghonim, Talent Acquisition Specialist

Islam Ghonim

Talent Acquisition Specialist·Signify - Philips lighting

United Arab Emirates

Diploma, Human Resource Management

Work experience

Total years of experience: 17 years, 4 months

Talent Acquisition Specialist

May 2022 - Present

Signify - Philips lighting

Cairo, Egypt

May 2022 - Present

Company industry:
Manufacturing
Job role:
Human Resources and Recruitment

Recruitment Specialist

February 2021 - Present

Alkifah Holding

Cairo, Egypt

February 2021 - Present

Working at Cairo- offshore office, hiring for Alkifah holding group in KSA

Company industry:
Construction & Building
Job role:
Human Resources and Recruitment

Talent Acquisition Partner – EMEA

January 2022 - April 2025

Signify (Philips Lighting)

Cairo, Egypt

January 2022 - April 2025

• Managing end-to-end recruitment across the METAP region (Middle East,
Turkey, Africa, and Pakistan), with occasional support to European markets.
• Supported technical hiring in India as part of a side project.
• Led recruitment strategies using Workday, LinkedIn Recruiter, and other
sourcing platforms.
• Delivered hiring reports and dashboards to regional stakeholders.

Company industry:
Manufacturing

Senior Recruitment Specialist

January 2021 - January 2022

Al-Kifah Holding

Khobar, Saudi Arabia

January 2021 - January 2022

• Oversaw the recruitment process for business units in KSA and Dubai.
• Partnered with hiring managers to define hiring needs and implement
proactive sourcing strategies.

Company industry:
Construction & Building

Talent Acquisition Specialist

January 2018 - January 2021

Damac Properties

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

January 2018 - January 2021

• Managed hiring for real estate and sales roles across GCC, especially Dubai.
• Used Taleo ATS and regional sourcing channels to meet aggressive
headcount goals.

Company industry:
Real Estate

Executive talent acquisition

October 2017 - August 2020

Damac group

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

October 2017 - August 2020

Company industry:
Real Estate
Job role:
Human Resources and Recruitment

Recruitment Officer / Team Leader

January 2012 - January 2018

Al Ajmi Construction

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

January 2012 - January 2018

• Led recruitment team in Saudi Arabia, handling all manpower planning and
hiring campaigns.
• Built and maintained pipelines for technical, engineering, and site-based
positions.

Company industry:
Civil Engineering

Freelancer Recruiter

June 2016 - September 2017

self employed

Cairo, Egypt

June 2016 - September 2017

Company industry:
Recruitment & Employee Placement Agency
Job role:
Human Resources and Recruitment

Senior Recruiter &Team Leader

October 2013 - April 2016

Al Ajmi Co.

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

October 2013 - April 2016

Responsibilities:
-Manage the full life cycle of recruitment projects within the allocated business area driving these to successful completion by leading.
-supervision team contain 6 employee engaging and briefing sourcing team to source and identify best talents from the market. Divided recruitment teams to 2 small groups to make work follow up very easy .
-Review and endorse manpower plan, including identifying manpower requirements in coordination with other departments and highlighting vacancies to be filled within specific timelines.
- Review and endorse recruitment process and criteria.
-Analyzes the recruitment process performance, prepares the recruitment dashboards, presents dashboards, recommends changes to the recruitment process and implements changes.
-Analyzes the performance of recruitment agencies, the cost per hire, time to hire and recommends changes and improvements.
-Tracks the list of the recruitment agencies and their terms and conditions; introduces standardized terms and conditions for the recruitment vendors if possible.
-Prepare and submit reports to the Management regarding the status of recruitment, Provide advice on recruitment strategies, procedures and market conditions.
-Establishes recruiting requirements by studying organization plans and objectives; meeting with managers to discuss needs.
-Develop and maintain all job descriptions, updating and maintaining job postings on our in house Recruitment System and external portals .
- Follow up and coordinate with recruitment channels, Work closely with assigned business’ HRMs to deliver recruitment needs .
-Coordination with other departments to complete the procedures for the appointment and orientation of new staff.
-Contribute to the establishment recruitment commission for select suitable candidates.
-Measures the performance of HR Recruiters and provides feedback to them.
-Review employment contracts and ensure they are in line with approval, job offer letters and assure contained all needed documents .
-Follow up Visa statement and transaction processing for obtaining new visas.

Company industry:
Civil Engineering
Job role:
Human Resources and Recruitment

Recruitment specialist

January 2012 - October 2013

Abdulali Al-Ajmi Joint Stock company

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

January 2012 - October 2013

Responsibilities:
-Screening CV’s based on predefined criteria given by upper management /Recruiting manager to arrange Short listing and filing CV’s for future uses.
-Builds applicant sources by researching and contacting community services, colleges, employment agencies, recruiters, media, and internet sites; providing organization information, opportunities, and benefits; making presentations; maintaining rapport.
-Determines applicant qualifications by interviewing applicants; analyzing responses; verifying references; comparing qualifications to job requirements.
-Preparation of Job offers letters in coordination with the recruiting manager.
-Communication and coordination with new candidates regarding terms of employments and then steps for travel and joining.
-Follow up candidates procedures for submitting visa in different country.
-Responsible for internal recruitment .
-Coordinate with overseas recruitment agency .
-Arrange all procedures for any recruitment trip .
-Attracts applicants by placing job advertisements; contacting recruiters, using newsgroups and job sites.
- Analyzes the recruitment software and recommends and implements changes to it
-Identifies difficult job vacancies and investigates the best recruitment approach for them
-Keeps the documentation of the recruitment process up to date
-Trains new HR Recruiters (induction program).
-Manages new employee relocation by determining new employee requirements; negotiating with movers; arranging temporary housing; providing community introductions.

Company industry:
Construction & Building
Job role:
Human Resources and Recruitment

HR Specialist

November 2009 - January 2012

Abdulali Al-Ajmi Joint Stock company

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

November 2009 - January 2012

Responsibilities:
-Renewal and issuance of residency & passports of employee .
-All dealings with the Labor Office and the Institute for passports and immigration
-Treat with the Website of the Ministry of Labor.
-Following up the governmental pursuer for all issues related to employees official works (reentry visa, other official papers) manually and Muqeem system.
-Following up the yearly task of visa, work permit and insurance renewals.
-Knowing about all government transaction in kingdom of Saudi Arabia .
-Write letters and correspondence addressed to government departments.
-Assistant of Administrative manager and Personnel Officer.
-Follow up annual and probation period performance appraisal for all staff with different Dept.
-Prepare Employment contracts for new staff and.
-Writing job offer letters for new employee
-Enter new employee data to system, and updating HR System
-Follow up employees vacation and arrange replacements.
-Manually and electronic archiving for all staff documents and employees files .
-Booking airline tickets for Employees .
-Issue visa of different countries in the world.
-Company registration in websites for government bid.

Company industry:
Construction & Building
Job role:
Human Resources and Recruitment

Sales Representative

December 2008 - July 2009

New Awa company for chemical raw materials

Cairo, Egypt

December 2008 - July 2009

Salesperson and collecting the dues of the companys customers have

Company industry:
Merchandising
Job role:
Sales

Education

Oxford Training College

December 2012

December 2012

Diploma, Human Resource Management

Egypt

GPA (percentage): 88%

GPA (percentage): 88%

Professional Diploma In human resource Management from oxford training college certificate No. HR861

Oxford Training College

January 2012

January 2012

Diploma, Human Resources

Egypt

Zagazig university

June 2008

June 2008

Bachelor's degree, Ba Commerce

Egypt

GPA (percentage): 72%

GPA (percentage): 72%

Ba Commerce from zagazig university ( Accounting Dept. )

Zagazig University

January 2008

January 2008

Bachelor's degree, Commerce

Egypt

Skills

Screening

Expert

Interviewing

Expert

Microsoft Office

Expert

Source Selection

Expert

Team Management

Expert

استخدام الكمبيوتر

Expert

Internet Application ( Browsing & outlook )

Expert

Give Excellent Results Through a Team Work

Expert

Good Reading Studying Skills

Expert

Operating Systems: Win 98, Win Me, Win XP

Expert

Time planning

Intermediate

Oracle

Intermediate

Office ( 2003 , XP , 2007 )

Expert

communication skills

Expert

Work under pressure

Expert

TALENT ACQUISITION

Intermediate

REAL ESTATE

Intermediate

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Intermediate

STAKEHOLDER MANAGEMENT

Intermediate

ANALYTICS

Intermediate

DECISION MAKING

Intermediate

COORDINATING

Intermediate

LINKEDIN

Intermediate

DASHBOARD

Intermediate

MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS

Intermediate

Interviewing

Expert

Microsoft Office

Expert

Source Selection

Expert

Team Management

Expert

Screening

Expert

Languages

English

Intermediate

Arabic

Expert

Training and Certifications

Certifications
international computer driving license
middle east Institute
May 2008 - Jun 2008

Recommendations

AHMED ELKHALFY

Jul 2011

Jul 2011

recruitment specialistColleague

Islam was considered of the characters that work hard and effort and this is what I would call a work machine, it does not get bored and never tire of the work as well as accurate in his work as completed the work assigned to him in the shortest time possible

Hobbies and interests

Reading, traveling , football