Jasser Al-Hilaly

Alshaya Group is a leading international franchise operator, with nearly 90 of the world’s most recognized brands in its portfolio, Alshaya Group brings great shopping, dining, leisure and hospitality experiences to millions of customers across the Middle East & North Africa, Russia, Turkey, Europe and beyond

As a Regional Talent Acquisition Manager, my responsibility is to lead and manage the team and handle the end-to-end recruitment process for Digital and Technology divisions such as IT, Digital Marketing and eCommerce as well as Corporate and business functions which consist of Audit, Loss Prevention, Logistics, HR, Finance, Central Operations, Property and Legal.

- Responsible for the 360-recruitment cycle
- Leading a team who source, contact & headhunt active/passive candidates through major recruiting platforms and networking in coordination with C suite executives for their hiring requirements
- Created and maintained MI reports
- Attend monthly divisional leadership meetings for recruitment related activities
- Overseeing recruitment activities for local and offshore team
- Developed sourcing strategies to recruit needed candidates as per job requirements as well as researching sourcing tools and recruitment methods to increase effectiveness such as Hiretual, Lusha, etc.
- Managed relationships and negotiated arrangements with temporary recruitment agencies
- Temporary staffing, including internship, contract and temp-to-perm

The American College of the Middle East is a leading educational institution in Kuwait and in the region.
As one of the region’s leading educational institutions, my role was to handle the end-to-end recruitment for faculty and non-faculty

• Recruitment of all faculty & non-faculty positions including junior roles and C-suite level executives
• Recruitment of local and overseas candidates
• Mass-recruitment: recruiting a significant number of employees based on similar qualifications or profiles
• Attracting job applicants by placing advertisements and using job sites
• Joining formalities: collecting documents, completing necessary paperwork and submitting files to personnel for new-joiners
• Utilizing multiple recruiting sources
• Negotiating contracts with potential candidates such as packages (salary, benefits, etc.), joining date and various documentation
• Corresponding with overseas agencies and closely updating status of candidates
• Co-ordinating with department heads for their manpower requirements
• Sourcing: evaluating the skills of candidates through proactive recruiting techniques
• Headhunting: identifying and approaching candidates through various recruitment tools depending on given requirement
• Determining and interviewing candidates based on criteria, job roles and job specifications

⦁ Updating project worksheets on a daily basis
⦁ Closely following-up with internal and external stakeholders on the progress of various projects
⦁ Communicating and following-up with customs in regards to shipments
⦁ Preparing RAG reports for management on a weekly basis
⦁ Work closely with the Ministry of Electricity and Water and Gulf National Drilling for daily updates on shipment progress for sea freight, air freight and land freight
⦁ Prepare Custom duty calculations for financial reporting and verification

⦁ Locating potential candidates based on recruitment requirements
⦁ Reviewing and screening job applications based on manpower requisition (MRF)
⦁ Conducting initial phone interviews with potential candidates to evaluate their qualifications
⦁ Assisting the line manager with interviews and following-up with candidates in various stages of the recruitment process
⦁ Conducting performance appraisal (PA)
⦁ Assisting the line manager with updating reports (open vacancies, current vacancies, etc.)
⦁ Various administrative tasks such as scheduling interviews and maintaining documentation of interviewed candidates and hired employees in an orderly manner
⦁ Overseeing job applications