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Job description / Role
POSITION OBJECTIVE
- This position is responsible for high volume recruitment in a fast paced environment. The position also has to find and source candidates by conducting college visits, attending career fairs, attending network events, and by leveraging social media. - Ensure smooth on-boarding process of the new employees and assisting with the day-to-day operations of the Human Resources functions.
Key Responsibilities:
Recruitment:
- Recruiting and Headhunting for assigned Brands.
- Manage the sourcing, selection, offer, negotiation, closing, and administrative components involved in full lifecycle recruiting.
- Conduct interviews on telephone / Skype / face-to-face and the technical test.
- Responsible for achieving hiring targets and objectives.
- Conduct a background verification of the shortlisted candidates.
- Collect documents for the visa process and coordinate for the same with the PR department.
- Maintain and build relationship with the Brand Management Team in order to understand their staffing.
- Coach the managers on hiring trends and recruitment tools.
- Develop timely, cost-effective staffing strategies to identify and attract a diverse pool of qualified candidates for all job openings.
- Leverage multi-channel sourcing solutions to develop a diverse pipeline of candidates for future job openings. (e.g. cold calling, networking, job postings, employee referrals, social media, etc.)
- Contributes to the growth of the business by referring quality candidates into the hiring process.
Induction and On-boarding:
- Send the visa copy and joining invitations to the candidates.
- Coordinate with the internal travel desk for candidate's flight and hotel bookings for all overseas candidates.
- Arrange for airport pick-up and hotel drop for the overseas recruited candidates.
- Coordinate with the IT Department for the laptop, Sim card and blackberry device of new employee, if eligible.
Operations
- Getting involved in the discussions with regards to the employee-related issues.
- Weekly updates to the respective GM's for the Recruitment Status.
- Undertake specific projects within the HR function as required.
- Undertake specific projects within the HR function as required.
About the Company
The Apparel Group is a global fashion and lifestyle brand conglomerate residing on the crossroads of a modern economy - Dubai, UAE. The mercurial growth in the last 17 years has been by acquiring a host of world class fashion labels from around the world - Nine West, Tommy Hilfiger, Kenneth Cole, Aldo & Tim Hortons just to name a few.
Today the group caters to thousands of eager shoppers through its over 1530 stores, 75 International brands and employing 12,000 multi cultural staff in over 4 continents. Apparel believes in turning dreams in to reality and we give everyone - our customers, our stakeholders, our employees - an equal opportunity to do so.
Apparel group has carved its strong presence not only in the UAE, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, and Saudi Arabia but opened thriving gateways to market in India, South Africa, Poland, Singapore, Jordan, Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia. Additionally, clear strategies are in place to enter emerging markets such as Hungary, Pakistan, Egypt and Philippines.