Chief Happiness Officer
Happiivue
Total years of experience :17 years, 7 Months
Founded Happiivue to provide organizations management consultancy on talent development, corporate happiness and wellbeing in the workplace, performance management and to maximize engagement and productivity. Working with various organizations here in the UAE. Delivering one/two-day workshops on employee engagement, the power of appreciation, values, team building, leadership development, coaching and mentoring. Working with universities and corporates as part time guest lecturer and speaker.
Worked alongside a team of 8 other HR generalists, reporting to 1 HR director.
• Helped with the development of strategic plans and recommendations for HR functions.
• Coached managers and supervisors in proactive employee relation activities. Creating an environment of choice and employee engagement. Identifying recruitment and retention strategies.
• Implement and drive performance and feedback processes such as performance reviews on management staff.
• Prepared and communicated offer letters and contracts to new employees and existing employees.
• Scheduled interviews - organized and updated employee files, Maintained security and confidentiality of employee information.
• Created a great place to work, maximized productivity through employee communications, performance management and succession planning, retained and rewarded appropriately and competitively.
• Provided information regarding company policies and procedures; updated labor laws to new and current employees and administered stock options for old and new employees.
• Created PowerPoint presentations including charts, graphs and organizational charts from a hand-written draft.
Transferred work directly with Reservoir Engineering Team June 2014 (Technical Assistant)
Worked alongside the Department manager, running a department of 40 technical engineering staff, offshore and onshore. Supported the day to day operations, talent development and employee relations.
• Supported line managers in creating a culture of employee engagement based upon company values and strategy.
• Reinforced a culture of performance-focus and diversity.
• Acted as an advisor to Line Managers in order to educate them and minimize risk.
• Ensure compliance with company HR policies throughout the employee lifecycle.
• Communicated and implemented changes to policies and procedures.
• Ensure that the disciplinary procedure is properly applied.
• Managed department and team job descriptions and job design.
• Managed employee competency assessments and performance management.
• Supported line manager in employee KPI’s and Annual Appraisals.
• Handled training and development plan for engineers, recommending and selecting vendors.
• Screened and management talent acquisition, on/off boarding of petroleum engineers/Geologists.
• Coached and mentored engineers to maximize employee engagement and performance.
• Managed department organizational development for 40 employees in Turkmenistan and Dubai.
• Happiness Officer since 2017 facilitating initiatives for organization, workshops and team gathering.
Managed a small team of consultants in the Upstream Oil and Gas sector: responsible for developing client portfolios which included talent development, recruitment planning and resourcing.
•Joined Rethink Group in the Manchester office on a 6 weeks training course, with a detailed study into the oil and gas exploration and production, full upstream technical life cycle and became familiar with all service providers, operating companies on a global scale and projects ongoing across the globe. Through various business development, manpower planning and onsite meetings.
•Relocated and flew out to the Dubai offices, went on to win many service manpower agreements with Schlumberger, Oilserv, Bakerhughes, Weatherford, ADNOC, Qatar Petroleum, Maersk Oil and many other large and small well-known companies.
•Managing manpower nationalization campaigns in country of need.
•Recruitment many local IRAQI engineers in Basra, Angola and other high-risk countries where talent where hard to find. I recruitment many UAE and Saudi nationals in country.
•Managing various client portfolios that required a vast number of engineers and projects managers. I recruited 3 staff within a 2-week period, screened, interviewed and offered all operating from the UK offices and places them in Dubai HQ.
•Built a recruitment database from scratch for all business segments, Finance, IT, HR, Executive Level and Technical Engineering.
•Weekly client meetings onsite, face to face and via conference calls to the US and UK. Where we discuss the current pipeline of projects, excess needs and how and where we can resource. We access the budgets/cost strategies against the urgency of recruitment plans. I coordinated interviews on/offshore with my clients whilst the interviews take place. Referenced, fully qualified of all applicants prior to interviews and offers of acceptance from the employer.
•Responsible for job evaluation, job descriptions and social medial recruitment campaigns.
Technical IT Recruitment Consultant involved in the large and small-scale recruitment campaigns: in the IT /digital media/mobile & software development sector. Clients: Oracle, Sky, AKQA, Razar Fish, Shazam, Booking.com, BBC, Channel 4 Media, Deloitte, Betfred, William Hill, Tribal DDB,
Duties: I would advise clients on sourcing local and internal talent, daily rates, cost to contract staff depending on project requirements and creating and writing new job descriptions to include key competence frameworks for technical teams.
Responsible for mobilizing engineers from project to project on a contract /demand basis to work on mobile, web based, and gaming and social application development for all levels of engineering.
Managed applicants through appropriate online portals Taleo, Adecco websites, Job boards, Jobsites and groups on social media sites (Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and all other social applications).
Sourced, screened, shortlisted and managed talent/clients both on the telephone and face to face. Researched weekly market trends, data analysis, skill shortages and technology trends to report to clients for future talent management design strategies.
Wrote and shared monthly articles and social blogs online emerging technologies and trends whilst managing a group of 5-10 specialist android and Ios (apple) software contract developers out on project.
I was part of technical recruitment team responsible for the south west of England, responsible for all technology and software development clients, digital media and gaming industries.
•Screened and telephone interviewed candidates by their CV’s, shortlisted and reference checked as per requirements for software development projects, contractors and permanent staff.
I started out in digital media sales, where I was hugely successful for the first 12 months. I was promoted to the recruitment team where I was responsible for managing our monthly recruitment campaigns to attract sales, engineering and admin staff to BT from various local surroundings through both newspaper and online advertising. Managed both internal and external job postings, screened, shortlisted and rejected various job applicants.
•Coordinated and attended both telephone and face to face Interviews alongside other panel members. Psychometric and Technically tested applicants. Prepared rejection and offer letters to send via the post. Drafted and printed employment contracts prior to new hires joining.
Master’s Degree in Human Resource Management – Sept 2015 – Jan 2018. Middlesex University, Dubai Campus. Organisational Design and Development. Resourcing and Talent Management. Performance Management. Reward Management. Learning and Talent Development. Leadership and Management Development. Understanding and Implementing Coaching and Mentoring.
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