Recruitment Specialist
Qatar Foundation
Total years of experience :16 years, 8 Months
Responsible for the full cycle of recruitment process for Qatar Foundation and over 30 of its centers. This includes but is not limited to: Evaluating prospective employee experience with job description Initiating, negotiating and preparing Employment Job Offers Assisting new employees with familiarisation of QF work environment and its policies Assisting new employees with information on Qatar immigration regulations/requirements and laws Engage in regular communication with the new employee to maintain interest until all the recruitment formalities are over Coordinate and arrange all the required documentation for the new employee-request for visa, Medical, CID letters, references, etc. Coordinate and arrange all the required logistics and mobilisation for the new employee-request for accommodation, tickets, transportation, etc Coordinate and arrange interviews as requested for QF centres both in person and via skype /telephone (local and international) Updating QF centers on on-going recruitments on a weekly basis Updating the recruitment report on a daily basis Preparing reports for management as and when requested Attend meetings as required Preparing employee Employment Contracts after employee joins
Oct 2009 - Present Ta'allum Group of Schools Doha, Qatar
HR Team Leader
I am currently Leading HR Transactions for 3 Schools under Ta'allum Group
My role and duties are as follows: Payroll Administration
HR Policies and Procedures drafting and review
Staff Salary reviews
Needs assessment at various schools
Prepare manpower plan followed by advertising & recruitment plan, strategies
Writing job descriptions, preparing advertisements
Advertising-both locally and internationally through various channels (newspapers, recruitment companies, recruitment agents, company websites, etc)
Managing & Coordinating the following: screening, short listing, interview process (right from preparing standard questionnaires for different job categories to conducting the interviews, evaluation of candidate), carrying out the interviews with various panels, candidate selection, job offers, salary negotiation, contracts, induction, visa process, ticket booking, accommodation, candidate arrival, induction, medical insurance, etc
Organizing and taking part in international recruitment drives
Established the following: -Recruitment protocol
-New Hire protocol
-New hire induction protocol
-End of Services Protocol
-Requirements on career page on company website
Report writing, evaluation on success of recruitment strategy
Organized & conducted training programmes for HR Team members
Designed & Developed forms and policies along with other team members
Jul 2008 - Sep 2009 Al Maha Schools Doha, Qatar
HR Coordinator
A few months on this post and I was promoted in the same organization to HR Coordinator.
My main role was to coordinate all HR activities across all the 5 Al Maha Schools. I was coordinating a team of 3 members, while at the same time actually functioning as HR for the Girls School. I coordinated all the below functions for not just 1 school, but 4 schools. I held regular meetings and assessments with school Principals to determine staffing needs and accordingly established a recruitment plan keeping in mind the budget.
2 schools-Boys and Girls are now an Academy, also an entity of Ta'allum Group.
M.B.A. (Masters Diploma in Business Administration: Majors in Finance-Other subjects included Personnel Management, Marketing & Industrial Relations) Trainings and courses in HR: • Interviewing skills for Recruitment & Selection (Spearhead HR Training Institute) • MS Office Skills (Human soft) Courses administered to junior HR staff: • Qatar Labor law & regulations • HR policies and procedures • HRMS System • Payroll administration • Forms administration • Organization charts
B.A. (Bachelors in Arts-Majors in English & Psychology) Jyoti Nivas College, Bangalore, India
I.C.S.E. (Indian Certificate of Secondary Education) Baldwin Girls' High School, Bangalore, India