Recruitment Specialist

Job description / Role

Conducting various recruitment activities that provide line managers and store operations with a suitable pool of applicants from which to select and for negotiating and finalizing contracts with candidates.

Accountabilities
- Develops recruitment strategies to achieve required staffing levels and builds recruitment materials for presentations, job fairs and open days.
- Manages the entire recruitment cycle with a view to hire and attract the best talents from various sources and selects employment advertising methods when needed.
- Coordinate with head of departments and for the annual manpower plan and budgeted manpower of store operations
- Liaises with line managers to ensure a full understanding of their requirements and preferences.
- Checks vacancy requisitions for policy and budget compliance
- Ensures remaining informed of developments in areas such as salaries, employee benefits and departmental needs.
- Organizes advertising, interviewing and selection processes for recruitment campaigns
- Ensures timely and quality recruitment methods to conduct interviews with job seekers and prepares shortlists of candidates
- Takes a proactive approach to meet staffing requirements by attracting, sourcing and screening applicants using innovative techniques.
- Manages and ensures arrangement of interviews with head of departments and line managers for applicants
- Discuss recruitment policies with superiors to ensure effectiveness of selection techniques and recruitment programs
- Coordinates with both local and overseas recruitment consultancies and finalize contracts with them
- Conducts competency-based interviews and uses appropriate assessments.
- Checks candidates references with their previous employers.
- Updates the candidates database systems as required.
- Provides a high level of customer service to candidates, colleagues and line managers.
- Builds effective working relationships with placement agencies, colleges and universities for recruitment purposes.

Requirements

- Bachelors degree in Human Resources or related field.
- 3-5 years experience in Recruitment.
- Capability to handle challenging issues in a diverse and dynamic environment.
- Aptitude to recruit for a wide range of positions.
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to relate well to people.
- Strong initiative and solid judgment skills.
- Fluent in English (written and spoken). French is an advantage.
- IT Skills, MS office application.

About the Company

Retail Group Egypt is a subsidiary of Alhokair Fashion Retail. Fawaz A. Alhokair & Co (known as Alhokair Fashion Retail) was formed in 1990 by Fawaz, Salman and Abdulmajeed Alhokair. The company has since become the largest franchise retailer in the KSA, MENA, Central Asia and Caucasus regions, and is the only listed business of its type in the Middle East. Quality, innovation, service and trust are the guiding principles for all Alhokair Fashion Retail operations.

These values are coupled with an ability to move quickly, to seize new opportunities and to enter emerging markets. Since the opening of its first store in 1991, Alhokair Fashion Retail has grown considerably and now trades in more than 2,100 stores across 100 shopping malls in 16 countries, with a retail platform operating on a total GLA of over 500,000m.

All of this is ably managed by a workforce numbering more than 12,000. Alhokair Fashion Retail currently represents over 80 fashion brands, across a diverse platform covering Womenswear, Menswear, Kids & Baby, Department Stores, Shoes & Accessories, Cosmetics, F&B, and Entertainment.