Yossra Al Zawawy, Regional Recruitment & HR Business Partner

Yossra Al Zawawy

Regional Recruitment & HR Business Partner

Al Yasra Fashion

Location
Kuwait - Hawali
Education
Bachelor's degree, Majoring in Mass Communication, public relations section
Experience
13 years, 8 Months

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Total years of experience :13 years, 8 Months

Regional Recruitment & HR Business Partner at Al Yasra Fashion
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • My current job since February 2019
Senior Recruitment Officer at Gastronomica ME
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • July 2018 to February 2019

- Drafting and updating job advertisements for job openings, source suitable candidates, screening applications, interviewing candidates, scheduling interviews with line managers, collating interview feedback, communicating feedback to candidates, conducting reference checks and ensuring that all candidate records are update in the recruitment database.
- Assisting & coordinating the implementation of policies, procedures and techniques pertaining to recruitment & selection.
- Conducting telephone, Skype & face to face interviews with candidates.
- Planning, assisting and coordinating recruitment events.
- Manage & analyze appropriate recruitment campaigns.
- Liaise with hiring managers regarding candidate progress and provide suitable shortlist of candidates when required.
- Assist in establishing relationships with recruitment agencies, universities and professional societies in order to have an adequate flow of candidates.
- Use social media and professional networking sites to identify and source candidates.
- Develop a pool of qualified candidate in advance of need.
- Draft job offers for new recruits and obtain signed job offers from new recruits.
- Support and assist with overseas recruitment trips.
- Assisting with development of job description.
- Assist with key recruitment and human resources projects across within the GCC.
- Guide and support junior members of the team in the absence of the recruitment manager.
- Generation and preparation of recruitment activity reports.
- Updating and maintaining recruitment & Onboarding trackers.
- Updating and maintaining recruitment database/ ATS.

Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist at Azadea Group
  • Kuwait - Hawali
  • April 2015 to April 2018

• Build a network as well as recruitment material and presentations needed for job fairs, open days, and other recruitment initiatives.
• Implement best practices methodologies in order to ensure that the most qualified candidates are attracted and recruited with all related data accurately captured.
• Gather and analyse data to contribute to strategic planning and projects, as well as set an action plan accordingly in order to answer staffing needs.
• Develop plans in order to enhance the service provided to candidates, colleagues and line managers.
• Develop innovative reporting in areas such as salaries, employee benefits, and department needs in order to facilitate access to information.
• Liaise with line managers to ensure a full understanding of their requirements and preferences; interview and select applicants who meet the specified criteria for the position as per the set company policy.

Recruitment Specialist at Azadea Kuwait
  • Kuwait - Hawali
  • April 2014 to March 2015

• Liaise with line managers to ensure a full understanding of their requirements and preferences, as well as interview and select applicants who meet the specified criteria for the position as per the set company policy.
• Develop recruitment plans based on staffing needs and select most appropriate recruitment methods to source candidates.
• Suggest improvements to the recruitment lifecycle in order to ensure efficiency in sourcing candidates.
• Build effective working relationships with placement agencies, colleges and universities for recruitment purposes.
• Identify opportunities for recruitment campaigns; plan, communicate and drive them upon approval.
• Create and implement automated statistical reports as requested in order to ensure proper staffing analysis and recruitment process monitoring.
• Conducts competency-based interviews, uses appropriate assessments and checks candidate’s references with their previous employer.

Junior Recruitment specialist at Azadea Kuwait LLC.
  • Kuwait - Hawali
  • September 2012 to March 2014

• Sources CVs for open positions from the company’s website and different search engines.
• Conducts prescreening for the selected CVs and coordinates with recruiters and line managers to schedule interviews.
• Administers tests to short listed candidates and transferred employees, computes the results and enters them in the database.
• Updates candidates on the status of their applications.
• Maintains the recruitment system, updates it on a daily basis and manages online job postings.
• Checks candidates’ references with their previous employers when required from the recruitment team.
• Processes recruitment documentation and information from a variety of sources in order to support ongoing Recruitment activities.
• Liaises with line managers to ensure a full understanding of their requirements and preferences and sources applicants accordingly.
• Conducts competency-based interviews, uses appropriate assessments and checks candidate’s references with their previous employer
• Makes offers to successful applicants, regrets the unsuccessful ones and updates the candidates’ database systems as required
• Provides required support to facilitate the flow of work and ease the workload of the Recruitment Team.

HR Admin at Azadea Misr LLC.
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • July 2010 to September 2012

- Collating and/or summarising data and produces routine reports, schedules, advertisement texts, summaries and letters, seeking additional information where necessary, to support specific HR activities
- Screening incoming mail and telephone calls, draft responses, redirects correspondence and callers to appropriate people and/or departments where required, obtaining additional information where necessary.
- Identifies and undertakes initial investigations into data discrepancies in order to correct errors and ensure the highest standards of data accuracy.
- Provides professional advice and guidance to internal customers on HR issues in own area in order to ensure that HR policies are properly applied and implemented and high standards in HR practice are achieved and maintained.
- Assists the shops regularly and consistently in order to get correct and objective feedback on employee performance, capabilities, potential and problematic issues.
- Implements appropriate filing and data retrieval systems in order to ensure ease of access to up to date information at all times.
- Organize and maintain employee record forms regarding transfers, promotions, announcements and other in an effective manner.
- Serve as initial point contact in handling employees issues and grievances by receiving and processing incoming mails and phone calls.
- Collect and consolidate HR data, and prepare routine reports, letters, schedules, advertisement texts…etc. to support HR activities.
- Maintain files of leaving employees and ensure their completeness after the exit interview has been conducted.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Majoring in Mass Communication, public relations section
  • at Ein-Shams University
  • November 2010

• Public Relations and Communication course in New Planet Advertising Company in June 2008. • ICDL course in Berlitz learning center.

Specialties & Skills

Administrative Support
English
Teamwork
Communication Skills
Interviewing
Microsoft Offices (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, Viso)
Able to work in teams.
• Conducts competency-based interviews, uses appropriate assessments and checks candidate’s referenc
Interviewing
Job Description Development
Recruiting
Communication skills

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Expert

Training and Certifications

PADI Advanced open water (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2017
Competency biased interview (Training)
Training Institute:
Lama Makouk
Date Attended:
December 2013
Duration:
9 hours
Business English (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2014
Valid Until:
January 9999
Train the Trainer (Training)
Training Institute:
Azadea Group
Date Attended:
August 2014
Duration:
16 hours
Problem Solving and Decision Makking (Training)
Training Institute:
Azadea Group
Date Attended:
December 2014
Duration:
16 hours
Advanced Communication the power of influance (Training)
Training Institute:
Azadea Group
Date Attended:
April 2014
Duration:
9 hours

Hobbies

  • Diving
    Certified Advanced open water diver
  • Yoga
    200 Hours of Yoga teacher training at Goa, India