Madiha Alam, Talent Acquisition Consultant

Madiha Alam

Talent Acquisition Consultant

Dubai Holding Entertainment

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Master's degree,
Experience
5 years, 6 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :5 years, 6 Months

Talent Acquisition Consultant at Dubai Holding Entertainment
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since March 2022

Performed comparative analysis of various manpower hiring platform, negotiated and on-boarded the selected vendor
• Understood the recruitment needs and developed the hiring plan to onboard 65 FTEs in a duration of 3 months
• Leading full 360 recruitment cycle by sourcing candidates, conducting telephonic and personal interview, verifying
documents, conducting reference check hiring approvals and releasing offer
• Partner with key stakeholders, leaders & hiring managers to drive hiring needs & new ways of improving the process
• Conduct recruitment update meeting with hiring departments to set the expectations & maintain communication
throughout the recruiting process
• Coordinated with PRO for on-boarding of the selected candidates and issuance of their Visa
• Created internship program process and onboarded top 10 colleges of UAE to fulfill Emiratization
• Developed graduate training program across technical positions for Parks & Resorts

Assistant Manager at Rebel Foods
  • United Arab Emirates
  • August 2019 to January 2021

Recruitment
• Liaised with the functional heads to understand the recruitment needs and developed the hiring plan
• Sourced, screened, and shortlisted the resumes through ATS, job portals, references, and headhunting
• Organized and managed multiple hiring drives, hackathon and hiring challenge for various positions in technology
and marketing
• Formulated and executed strategy for cost effective lateral hiring and option for campus hiring
• Handled end-to-end recruitment cycle by conducting telephonic and personal Interviews in coordination with team
lead and negotiating compensation offers and allied bonus and benefits with candidates
• Conducted benchmarking exercise for internal parity and implementing across various functions
• Oversaw background and documents verification of the candidates before joining and designed induction plan
• Aligned and improved the interview process based on the NPS & feedbacks of selected and rejected candidates
Employee Engagement
• Organized monthly one-on-one discussion and employee morale and wellness survey among various functions to
analyze the stress point and formulate and execute changes in liaison with functional heads
• Created open learning forums and organizing technology meet ups
• Understood employee needs and arranging various training programs, preparing survey, and understanding the
scores for business group.
• Monthly Hideout activity for Tech and Innovation Team to check employee pulse, with games, awards and open
discussion forum among team
Policies & Projects
M.A in HR Management Diploma in Labor Laws B.B.A in HR Specialist Recruiter
• Prepared the internship requirements and created the policy for onboarding of interns
• Developed and executed buddy program to assist new hired in an organization
• Designed PMS 2.0 and created user friendly experience for self-evaluation and 360 feedback process
• Was responsible for end-to-end management of agencies and drafted onboarding policies with efficient training
for better flow of hiring fulfillment

Research Associate at Antal International Networks
  • United Arab Emirates
  • August 2018 to August 2019
specialist
  • January 2018 to February 2018

responsible for Technology hiring for e-commerce clients
• Consulted high-potential candidates by understanding their career aspirations and positioned them with prospective
clients based on their need and fitment resulting in increased recruitment effectiveness
• Managed Recruitment Process Outsourcing for a leading FS client by hiring for various positions including Lead
API, Full stack developer, SDET, SRE, Delivery Lead and Lead Business Analyst for their digital transformation.
Open Minds-A Birla School, Patna Dec’15 - May’16
Assistant HR Admin
• Screenedprofiles of200+ teachers, interviewed30+ teachersand on-boarded 7 teachers forthe school
• Conducted inductionfor newteacher by presentingandexplainingthem aboutMissionandVisionandpoliciesofschool

at Reach ManagementConsultants Private Limited
  • United Arab Emirates
  • August 2017 to September 2017

Was responsibleforsourcing ofcandidatesforclientslike VST MotorsGroup, SanmarGroupandCholayil Pvt.Ltd
• Assorted excel sheetof all selected candidatesinHirecraft software ATS for further processing

at CumminsGenerator Technologies India Pvt.Ltd
  • United Arab Emirates
  • May 2017 to June 2017

Project Title: Legal compliance calendar Preparation and Evaluation of CWK working in core area
• Prepared legal compliance calendar which notified the due date to fill the compliance every month. Used different
color codes to represent the priority of compliance filed in.

at Apollo Hospital
  • United Arab Emirates
  • February 2017 to March 2017

Worked withguest relations departmentto assess thepatientsatisfactionforservices providedduringtheir treatment
• Helpedindriving paperlesswork culture by updating employeedetailsinJCAlist ofApolloemployeeportal

business development at ManpowerGroupServicesIndiaPvt.Ltd
  • United Arab Emirates
  • July 2016 to September 2016

associatesingeneratingleadsandpursuing them for further recruitment process
• Responsible for releasing thecontracts to the newrecruits and experience certificate to the exiting employees
Co-curricular Activities
• Conducted paperpresentationat HRconclave2017on“HRtransformation-towards buildingan efficientHR
model”atWomen’s ChristianCollege
• Presentedpaper and published articleon effectivenessofemployeewelfarein journalat Ethiraj college, Chennai
• Organizing Committee, PersonalityGrowthWorkshop conductedbyDepartmentofPsychology and
Management studies, Women’s ChristianCollege
• Organized Committee, Workshopby ToastmastersInternational atWomen’sChristianCollege.Ensuredparticipation
from 600+ students whoattended workshoponEnhancingCommunicationSkillEveryday

Education

Master's degree,
  • at Women’s Christian College
  • February 2023

, HRM

High school or equivalent, Labor
  • at C..E St. Karen’s Secondary School
  • February 2023

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High school or equivalent, Labor
  • at C..E St. Karen’s Secondary School
  • February 2023

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High school or equivalent, Labor
  • at C..E St. Karen’s Secondary School
  • February 2023

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Bachelor's degree, Labor
  • at Women’s Christian College
  • January 2018

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Bachelor's degree, Labor
  • at Laws & Welfare Pune University ILS Law CollegeHR Pune University Ness Wadia College of Commerce
  • January 2014

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Specialties & Skills

HR Transformation
Employee Engagement
People Management
Recruitment
RECRUITING
BENCHMARKING
BENEFITS ADMINISTRATION
BUSINESS ANALYSIS
CUSTOMER RELATIONS
DELIVERY
E-COMMERCE
FUNCTIONAL