Sandra Selaru, Recruitment &OD Manager

Sandra Selaru

Recruitment &OD Manager

The Industrial Group

Location
United Arab Emirates
Education
Bachelor's degree, Psychology
Experience
17 years, 7 Months

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Total years of experience :17 years, 7 Months

Recruitment &OD Manager at The Industrial Group
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since November 2015

The Group is a major regional player in packaging, specialty chemicals and food flavours. It provides high quality products mainly in the business-to-business sectors in the broader Middle East, Africa and Indian subcontinent. In addition to manufacturing facilities in Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Morocco, the Group has regional offices and distribution centres throughout the MENA region.

Main roles and responsibilities:

Creating and implementing programs at work that connect employees with business goals.
Consulting with management and other leadership to identify business processes.
Developing methods for data file formatting, data analysis methodologies, and management reporting.
Creating effective strategic planning methods.
Developing team-building exercises and workshops.
Helping employees create project timelines and deadlines.
Implementing major changes in all aspects of operation.
Talking with management to identify specific work situations requiring employees to better understand changes in policies, procedures, regulations, and technologies.
Developing methods of measuring if performance management aligns with organizational goals.
Resolving conflict within groups.
Diagnosing potential organizational problem areas.
Recommending training and development systems.
Designing the selection matrix for choosing the optimum recruitment channel and recruitment source
Exploring the market best practices in the recruitment and staffing and implement appropriate best practices in the organization
Building a quality relationship with the internal customers and external recruitment agencies
Monitoring and constantly reducing the costs of the recruitment process
Setting the social media communication strategy for different job profiles and functions in the organization
Conducting job interviews for the managerial job positions (or key jobs in the organization)
Monitoring the labour legislation and implements required changes to keep the process compliant
Managing and developing the team of HR Recruiters
Acting as a single point of contact for managers regarding recruitment topics

HR &Recruitment Specialist at Jamal Al Ghurair Est.
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • August 2013 to October 2015

Jamal Al Ghurair Group (JAG) is a major player in the building materials and construction industry covering porcelain tiles, gypsum plasterboard, gypsum plasters, clay blocks and similar products in the region.
JAG has two large industrial units under Gypsemna Company (L.L.C.) and Porcellan Company (L.L.C.), for the manufacture of gypsum plasterboard and porcelain tiles. Additional ventures consisted of several successful industrial units, including Al Khaleej Sugar (The biggest standalone Sugar refinery in the world)
Main roles and responsibilities:

Hands on development and management of the company recruitment process.
Maintaining an effective and fast recruitment processes which involves screening, sourcing and interviewing candidates across 3 business units within a global setting.
Using knowledge of the legal obligations and regulations to coordinate the on boarding and VISA processing for all new team members.
Implement the group HR and recruitment activities, policies and strategies from design phase through to on-going maintenance with the CHRO.
Continual development of the company succession planning strategy to ensure the retention of top staff.
Consulting with the company owner on direct and high level staffing additions.
Liaising with senior business management to ensure and assess the recruitment needs within each business unit and relative departments.
Using market knowledge to determine the best way to identify the right calibre of candidates.
Leading weekly company reporting on the HR and recruitment activities with the management team.
Utilizing industry training to write and update Job Descriptions across the company and assist in creating department functions.
Total vendor management from negotiation through to assigning the workload of recruitment and HR consulting activities.
Participate in recruitment conferences, events and job fairs.
Undertake further responsibilities that may evolve in the future.

Recruitment Consultant at Resourcing Solutions International
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • September 2012 to July 2013

Resourcing International was established as an advisory consultancy in talent attraction and retention strategies and boasts a wealth of knowledge in current and planned global infrastructure projects and the impact on labour availability.
Resourcing International will assist you in formulating a strategic policy in talent management, setting clear objectives of how sourcing attraction, training, development, retention, promotion and movement of employees through the organization are managed.

Working globally with large to small Consultancies and Contractors from Executive Search through to site operations on multi-disciplined project programs.

Specialties: Recruitment, Resourcing, Candidate matching, Business Development, HR.

Main roles and responsibilities:

Using various techniques to develop and maintain a personal business network with both passive and active candidates in a technical market.
Develop new business opportunities through lead generation and follow up.
Provide a consulting approach and service to all candidates and client contacts.
Management of the recruitment CRM system.
Use of media sites to generate the professional network and the market knowledge within the sector.
Detailed qualification of applicants and client requirements to ensure a strong pairing of candidates with open jobs.
Approaching new and existing clients in relation to future business and to develop the relationships already established.
Management of a major client account in an account management capacity.
Attending client meetings to understand the companies, teams and line managers in the business.
Understanding the company expectations and role details for each company to ensure a quality based service.
Maintain candidate relationships with new and existing candidates and clients through continuous contact and relationship management.
Conducting meetings with candidates to guarantee that the interviews are appropriately structured with all relevant information collected and recorded.
Managing the whole recruitment process externally to ensure support and success.

HR Consultant - Member of a team specialized in banking industry business in all matters of consulta at Leaders Solutions FZ LLC
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • June 2011 to September 2012

Main roles and responsibilities:

Act as an internal consultant, subject matter expert for the HR Manager.
Covering Bahrain office from Dubai by handling executive managerial talent positions for banking industry.
Co-ordination between clients/employers in different countries (UAE, Kuwait, Qatar, Libya, Bahrain) and the candidates middle level (Manager and senior Manager) based in UAE market; GCC; UK; Malaysia; Canada, USA; Pakistan and India
Interact with all levels of management in the delivery of high quality profiles by discussing the opened positions with the employers for following aspects; the main criteria, the reporting line, responsibilities, the seniority level, in order to obtain a clear image of the required demands.
Screen applicants based on skills, relevant experiences using our using internal resources `Teleo' and other external resources; Monster, eFinancial, LinkedIn and referrals in order to make the necessary recommendation to the management.
Building good rapport with our talent candidates by contacting them and schedule meetings to discuss and interview for suitable openings, to establish a level of professional relationship.
Upon successful and positive meeting with our management we submit the short listed talent candidates to the employer.
Coordinate with the employer and the talent candidates in order to schedule meetings and review assessments.
Responsible in collecting all required documents (salary slip, details package and benefits from their current employer) to assist in preparing their proposal offers.

HR Assistant at S.C. Project S.A.
  • Romania
  • September 2009 to March 2011

Main roles and responsibilities:

Being in a constant relation with different departments in order to monitories their requirements.
Arranging interviews, booking interview rooms and sending out confirmations.
Search job portals and social media channels for candidates and contact them regarding roles.
Managing referencing process. This includes sending reference requests to previous employers, chasing return of references and providing feedback to the recruitment team as appropriate
Sending recognition of receipt emails to employees who have referred candidates and logging referral forms on system. Log successful referrals on spend spreadsheet and ensure correct payment is issued by Payroll.
Management of Social Media channels for recruitment attraction - Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, You Tube. Build new channels/groups where necessary. Maintain and improve channels. Attract more followers and keep them engaged.
Developing skills and ability tests to potential candidates.
Assisting the recruitment team with all administration connected with organizing and running candidate assessment days.

HR & Recruitment Consultant at S.C. Catifelin S.R.L.
  • Romania
  • July 2006 to July 2009

Main roles and responsibilities:

Supervising post training, integration and evaluation of new employees.
Preparation of employment contracts and new starter packs in a timely manner.
Issuing and implementation of performance evaluation systems.
Ensure candidate has eligibility to work in the required countries. Take copies of acceptable ID for HR file and record details on Team Spirit spreadsheet. Chase on expiry of visas.
Ensure all vacancies have been closed and removed from all internal/external websites.
Developing monthly appraisals and evaluate the performance
Create a HR file for new joiners and maintain the new joiner’s spread sheet.
Screening, sourcing and interviewing candidates..
Establish performance objectives
To provide efficient administrative support for the HR Manager, ensuring that the users are provided with key information on HR processes and procedures.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Psychology
  • at University Of Bucharest
  • February 2009

Specialties & Skills

Recruitment
Training
Developments
Leadership
Microsoft Excel, Power Point

Languages

English
Expert
Romanian
Native Speaker
Italian
Intermediate

Hobbies

  • Research
    “Al. Obregia” Clinical Hospital:Volunteering Autism, ADHD, Schizophrenia therapy developing tests Educational projects:Research in educational management, psychotherapy and assistive therapy for special and regular people regarding their evolution and integration, investigation and research in social problems. Developing activities for estimating students' self-esteem and anxiety degrees