Freelancing
Freelancing
Total years of experience :16 years, 7 Months
Accomplishments:
• Recorded success as a Career Advisor, offered consultancy to clients, and enabled them in choosing the right career path, find career opportunities, and passing job interviews through professional training programs
• Leading career expert - being at the very top of the profession, helping 35 job seekers in job search application completion and resume building, and evaluating job seekers' skills, qualifications, and experience to match the job.
• Imparted 2 training courses for teachers, trained them on various techniques for dealing with learners, and upskilled 70 trainees.
• Trained and coached 25 new Ministry of Works employees and helped them resolve job-related issues.
• Organized mock interviews and worked with 300 job seekers to develop and enhance networking skills.
• Designed and offered specialized courses that prepared the teachers to cross the supervisory role job interviews with ease.
Responsibilities:
• Encouraging job seekers in achieving professional and personal success, helping unemployed individuals find gainful employment.
• Offering a wide range of services that includes job search strategies, resume preparation, job referral, and placement assistance as well as market information to job-seeking customers.
• Participating in several job fairs and visiting university campuses to provide a wide range of information to prospective job seekers.
• Evaluating personal interests and abilities leads to realistic professional goals, guiding them with information on training courses, and degree requirements, and developing individual employment plans.
• Researching the needs of local employers concerning hiring needs and skill gaps, collaborating with retail business clients, and designing tailored tutoring and training programs that empowered 62 new salespersons for required positions.
Accomplishments:
• A key contributor to the transformation and improvement of HR initiatives relating to optimizing KAC salaries of all grades, streamlining policies/procedures, and gaining approval form the board of directors, resulting in an improvement of 7% in overall staff performance.
• Received appreciation and recognition for HR contributions by the CEO, top management, and board of directors that enhanced the overall performance objectives by 23% in comparison to previous years.
• Provided vital inputs in budget preparation for 2021 - 2022 within established time first time since 2019.
• Successfully implemented the new Oracle ERP, HRIS, which enabled executive management decisions to make quick decisions on HR transactions based on the most updated information and data.
Responsibilities:
• Full Spectrum HR Ownership revamped HR policies and practices and developed an HR Roadmap to improve workforce management and utilization whilst ensuring alignment with KAC's business strategy.
• Acted as a trusted advisor to the CEO and top management, providing guidance and support in the areas of strategic human capital management, challenges/threats/opportunities, benefits administration (salary & grading system), employee relations (conflict resolution), organization development (talent acquisition/training/succession planning & retention), and the overall development of best practices in human capital management.
• Combined broad and deep human resources and industry knowledge with functional capabilities to improve workforce capabilities and skills in light of business goals and dramatically improved performance through integrated talent, HR, and organizational change.
• Established departmental and induvial priorities and a well-defined roadmap to achieve the desired metrics in terms of personal performance and departmental goals.
• Linked business strategy, people, and performance to current/future business objectives.
• Deployed robust budgets for all HR and judiciously allocated budgets to each HR and staff-related activity.
Accomplishments:
• Incorporated an HR consulting company focused on helping clients undergoing organizational change and development.
• Assisted targeted customers, ministries, and companies to achieve their financial goals by enabling a smooth transition and change by offering customized solutions and trainings.
• Served as a lecturer and personal trainer for several prominent figures outside Kuwait that include 2 businessmen and 2 Kuwaiti parliament assembly members in addition to providing personnel development courses for 4 government and commercial sectors for 300 trainees.
• Offered specialized courses and trained 20 teachers in passing supervisory role interviews as well as aided a Private School Group in Qatar in Business Restructuring in the capacity of a Special Advisor.
Responsibilities:
• Established a consultancy firm specialized in providing human resources services, owing to the booming training and management consulting market.
• Developed aggressive business plans, mission statements and identified high-income generating strategies, and capitalized on them to create a steady source of income.
• Proven change agent delivered superior training programs, general management, and achievement of turnaround initiatives, strengthened productivity, and improved quality standards within challenging and high-growth environments.
• Designed over 33 training courses covering key topics in personnel development, and leadership programs and prepared videos for long-term use.
• A key thought leader in conceptualizing strategies of training programs, based on the unique needs of customers to unlock individual/team potential to a competitive advantage.
• Catalyst for building strong talent pools, customer-centric leadership teams, and top-tier performance cultures by guiding clients on HR procedures including performance evaluations, job descriptions, and industry-standard salary ranges for 5 new business owners.
Accomplishments:
• Significantly improved internal customer satisfaction by 78% by delivering superior HR services.
• Streamlined and simplified all administrative procedures based on the observations of the Internal Audit Department and minimized them form 30% to a negligible percentage.
• Attained the Kuwaitization program rate of 60% of the total work force as the requirement of the labor Ministry.
• Fully transformed all manual processes and shifted them to the newly deployed Oracle ERP-HRIS system
• Designed performance-linked incentive programs that improved sales staff productivity by 20%.
Responsibilities:
• Deployed a legally sound and practically operational framework consistent with labor laws, core business strategy, and vision across various verticals of HR Management.
• Streamlined the administrative processes, and converted all manual work to automated processes.
• Implemented robust performance appraisal systems to boost employee performance, and maximize productivity and employee contributions.
• Maintained end-to-end process of the Employee life cycle in the organization starting from the Induction till the Exit of an employee.
• Encouraged an environment conducive to employee development to support the achievement of VIVA strategic goals
• Employed talented management and qualified Kuwaiti nationals to take over leadership positions in the organization, and meet regulatory requirements.
• Devised robust HR policies as an instrument of business transformation that advances strategy, develops agile leaders and conjoins in culture.
• Emphasized and worked across cultures and functions, translated what is valuable and important to diverse stakeholders as well as created supporting agendas, communications, and reports to facilitate results.
Accomplishments & Responsibilities:
• Restructured, conceptualized, and deployed HR structures, systems, and policies that supported high-performance business standards, resulting in increasing overall sales by 15%; minimizing employee retention by 25%, and placing candidates meritoriously in the establishment.
• Dedicated leader with a passion for building effective, collaborative organizations that empower and engage individuals to pursue common goals, balancing employer and employee needs.
• Devised compensation/ benefit plans and rewards programs (performance schemes/incentives) that are directly variable to employee skills/ performance, personnel budget as well as capable to attract and retain a quality workforce.
• Supported an aggressive business plan through organizational alignment of a multi-functional HR Development Management Program to the common Organizational Framework of the organization while fully adhering to Kuwaiti labor law rules and regulations.
MBA: General Business and Strategic Management, Maastricht University – Netherlands (Apr 2007)/ GPA:66%
Bachelor of Science: Management Information Systems, California State University – Sacramento (Jan 1993)/ 2.62