Nazeem Abdul Rasheed

EMDAD in its core business as both an upstream and downstream integrated solution provider is headquartered in Abu Dhabi, and is a UAE based Group of company. Established in the year 1979, the company supports the energy sector by making use of innovative cutting-edge technologies from world class solution providers. It is an ISO 9000, ISO 14000 and OSHAS 18000 accredited name which also integrates divergent divisions matching the technical sectors and engineering organizations for its wide range of clientele across the UAE and the nearby regions. Emdad Services is a winner of the Sheikh Khalifa Excellence Award 2000, and includes a strong stakeholder base along with a remarkable experience in the market.

Servicing for

Upstream

• Well intervention services : Casing exit system (Whipstock) and Fishing, Milling and downhole tool rental services
• Mud Services
• Cold Tubing, Cementing and Stimulation Services

Downstream

• Shutdown and turnaround services
• Catalyst Handling
• Valves testing and maintenance
• Calibration and Commissioning
• Asset Integrity services
• Electromechanical construction and Fabrication
• FM and HVAC

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Managed high-volume recruitment process for 1500+ positions per year within Technical Division & Commercial, Business Development, IT, Legal, Projects, and Auditing adhering to strict deadlines
• Collaborate with the business & Department Heads on forecasting talent gaps based on business demands to build proactive candidate pipelines. Support stakeholders to understand market dynamics and constantly evolve acquisition and selection approaches to meet expectations.
• Conduct technical and competency led interviews as well as other forms of assessment to ensure that the right person is employed.
• Utilizes a variety of online search tools to proactively source/Headhunt talent, create networks and pipelines to accommodate current and future headcount needs.
• Develop and maintain pro-active and constructive relationships with senior levels of the HR department by demonstrating an understanding of the business, the associated requirements and managing expectations accordingly.
• Managing entire suite of recruitment action from the receipt of manpower requisition, sourcing, interviews, selection, compensation offer and securing candidate acceptance.
• Preparing Monthly Reports related to recruitments, lead time report, internal opportunities/ IJPs etc.
• Enhance and encourage awareness of internal referral program and where required, focused effort on diversity. Recommend, coordinate and participate in hiring events such as Job Fairs, external recruiting and other networking events.
• Implement employer branding activities to increase brand reach, both internally and externally
• Ensure efficiency in Time To Hire and quality of hire is maintained, while delivering a high level of accuracy within Company Applicant Tracking System.
• Travel Overseas for recruitment purposes as and when needed.
• Employed best practices in developing and implementing an effective recruitment and onboarding process supporting the needs of a rapidly growing organization.
• Conducted interviews with Line Managers, negotiated offer and performed reference checks.
• Performed end-to-end Onboarding process ensuring an exceptional new joiner experience with maximum business engagement within minimal time frame.
• Exhibited excellent knowledge of local onboarding regulations and ensured full compliance.
• Team lead for requirement gathering, process mapping and implementation of HRMS.
• Generated extensive Reporting in Excel for Recruitment, Onboarding, and Employee Lists.
• Managed all formalities during employee termination, resignation including exit interviews and documentation for final settlement for submission to finance.
• Ensuring timely processing of visas and travel/ accommodation arrangements for new recruits, coordinate and arrange for the pre-medical examination.
• Part of a 5-member Recruitment team to hire Talent.
• Mentored 2 HR Assistants.
• Conducted System testing of HRMS and communicated the same to Consultants for their review.
• Established positive working relationships with Hiring Supervisors, Project Managers, and VPs.
• Corresponded with other business units of Emdad requiring support with recruitment.
• Processed and ensured accuracy of documents relating to recruitment and candidate selection.
• Assisted in Manpower Planning, developing recruitment strategies, planning campaigns,
• interviewing, short listing, evaluating results and selecting candidates.
• Contributed in maintaining contact with local and international recruitment agencies, draft advertisements, organize local and overseas recruitment programs, and assist in career fairs and open days projecting Company as a first-choice employer.
• Maintained a confidential, accurate and up-to-date filing system for correspondence, recruitment and manpower statistics.

• Reporting to the Operations VP of the company.
• Key Account Manager for various Government & Semi-Govt Organizations, Oil and Gas,
• Medical, Education, Construction, companies for providing Recruitment and Outsourcing Services.
• Responsible for business development efforts: perform industry analyses, identify high potential prospects, contact hiring managers, originate client mandates and negotiate contract terms.
• Manage new and existing client relationships and serve as primary point-person for client contact.
• Attend regular client meeting with existing Clients to ensure the proper flow of business & new requirements.
• As an Account Manager oversees projects from the start till completion, ensuring the recruitment assignment is completed on time.
• Follow-up with the clients until the deal is finalized
• Supervise research staff and Recruiters to draft position specifications, research industries, associations and companies to identify suitable candidates, lead candidate selection, interview qualified candidates, and negotiate compensation packages.
• Well aware and familiar with the UAE Labor laws, its rules and regulations pertaining to manpower outsource.
• Review the short-listed resumes received from the team and finalize the list for submissions to the client.
• Ensure smooth operations and efficiently handle the queries/concerns of the outsource staff.
• Compile weekly reports on the revenue generated and the targets achieved, present the same to the Management.
• Extensive exposure to the Oil & Gas recruitment activity
• Effectively manage the team of recruiters in the oil & gas vertical & achieve set targets.
• Educating the team on various client requirements and shortlist profiles for client review
• Manage Call-Off Contracts and submit tender bids.
• Successfully handled bulk Manpower Mobilization & Demobilization for various Shutdown and Turn-Around Projects as per planed schedules.
• Assist in forecasting payroll and payroll needs
• Working with the Team as needed on payroll-related issues
• Familiar with complete ADNOC Group Recruitment Procedures based on ADNOC Manpower Agreement 2221333 and various manpower service agreements.
• Liaises with local, regional and international recruitment agencies on recruitment matters, negotiates terms and conditions of employment with candidates, contractors/agencies
• Proactively plan and manage recruitment for all positions within the relevant departments/Divisions.
• Utilize online recruitment services to attract and source applicants/job-seekers.
• Handling all matters related to overseas agencies as well as other recruitment tasks
• Ensuring job postings update on career webpage & job portals
• Coordinating with ITD regarding the enhancement of careers web pages.
• Ensure that all on-line job applications are properly screened/assessed in all aspects
• Providing high level of customer services to candidates, colleagues and Managers across the organization
• Reviewing and updating processes and procedures in order to improve work flow.
• Arranges personal interviews as per customary schedule and coordinates with Government Relations Section/Travels Section for necessary visa, security pass, travel, hotel accommodation arrangements, etc.
• Scrutinizes job offer, employment contracts and ensures to obtain the necessary government and medical approvals and clearances.
• Conducts reference checks on candidates, when required
• Maintains statistics of recruitment activities regarding new recruits, vacancies, interviews, advertisements, job synopsis candidate?s profiles, etc. and ensures updating and recording of information in the Recruitment Module.
• Participates in conducting surveys of the local labour market situation in order to evaluate the performance of local, regional and international Recruitment Agencies and to assess trends/constraints and proposes on the appropriate course of action to achieve an efficient and cost effective recruitment process.
• Plans and deals with recruitment for all positions within the relevant departments/divisions; including administering recruitment campaign, candidate sourcing, short-listing, skills & personality testing, behavioral interview assessment with Line Managers and offer negotiation, etc.
• Provides necessary support and assistance to the recruitment team in their daily activities.
• Maintain best recruitment practice, share ideas and information to ensure consistency through a value added services.

• Recruiting for the Energy, Infrastructure & Technical team
• Specialized in recruiting manpower for Shutdown and Turnaround projects
• Coordinate candidate and client expectations and requirements.
• Collaborate with hiring manager to determine job requirements, competencies, and selection criteria for open positions.
• Assigned the tasks of utilizing on-line database, candidate referrals, internet and networking to identify potential candidates.
• Build source pools of candidates through a variety of staffing approaches and networking to ensure a strong pipeline of qualified candidates.
• Utilize the internet effectively to search for candidates.
• Screening resumes identifying potential candidates.
• Conduct preliminary interviews with candidates, capturing feedback for meaningful discussion with hiring manager.
• Document candidate evaluation and interview process.
• Coordinate the development of employment offers, and negotiate on behalf of the hiring manager.
• Ensure that candidates have both the hard and soft skills necessary to excel in their role.
• Providing local market advice in relation to salaries, quantity of jobs and candidates available.
• Maintained constant communication with Hiring Managers for completing recruitment process and procedures
• Building relationships with clients to ensure detailed knowledge of job requirements, person specifications and work culture therefore enabling me to provide the best candidates for selection.
• Train and support colleagues and new employees on recruitment procedures.
• Provide support on training and development to client companies.

• Advising Clients and businesses on how best to use information technology to meet their business objectives.
• Screen, Evaluate and shortlist candidates as per the client requirement for various outsourced projects
• In addition to providing advice, I estimate, manage, implement, deploy, and administer IT systems on Client behalf
• Provide more objective advice and recommendations to the client.
• Provide specialized expertise.
• Provide a temporary help during one-time projects, where the hiring of permanent employees is not required
• To outsource all or part of the IT services
• Handled the tasks of screening, selecting and submitting candidates to job orders within a defined discipline
• Responsible for preparing and coaching candidates for interviews
• Handled the tasks of maintaining candidates and newly hired employee records in the Applicant Tracking Systems
• Assigned the tasks of negotiating offers with candidates to meet target gross margins of the organization
• Performed recruitment tasks by applying the policies, rules and procedures of the organization
• Handled the tasks of follow-up of candidates regarding offer letters and overseeing the selection process of candidates, which includes advertising, interviewing, coordinating starting dates and processing paper work associated with newly hired
• Performed other tasks as assigned.?

• Control and launch remote sessions to client computers and providing remote assistance.
• Monitor the health of the workstations and server computers.
• Pinpoint bottlenecks and faults.
• Monitor CPU, Memory usage, network traffic and network latency.
• Remotely monitor process.
• Find and end errant or crashed processes and launch new processes.
• Manage allocation of software?s on the network and assign appropriate software?s.
• Troubleshooting network and user problems.

• Installed and administered local area network?from network cabling, through network server configurations, user account assignations, updates, and granting permissions for shared resources.
• Conducted load and server stress test using test application and automated procedures

Joined as Technical Support Assistant, Providing technical assistance to 75 staff, assisting with network access, printing, and application software operation

• Assisted IT Coordinator with administration of a network of more than 100 workstations, spanning three locations
• Performed routine maintenance and user file backups
• Followed departmental procedures to purchase, configure, and install new and recycled hardware systems, maintaining corporate standards for system compatibility.
• Implemented a relational database system to maintain inventory records for hardware and software, ensuring software license compliance for all installations.
• Assembled system and software application documentation, informing users of training opportunities in the corporate learning center