Ashhar Ali 🚀🚀 Email & Phone Number

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

As the Group Talent Acquisition Manager at EIX Investment Consulting, I specialize in attracting and securing top-tier talent to drive our firm’s strategic vision and growth. With a deep understanding of EIX’s objectives to create a strong investment foundation both locally and globally, I am dedicated to building a team of experts capable of enhancing our impact in diverse sectors, with a focus on emerging markets.At EIX, we are committed to fostering sustainable investments and partnerships that align with Abu Dhabi’s economic priorities and extend into global markets. Our portfolio, which includes high-potential companies like ADMOG and Rabdan Cars, reflects our drive to innovate and lead within key industries. In my role, I ensure that our hiring practices align with these ambitions, bringing on talent that is not only skilled but also aligned with EIX’s growth-focused mission.With expertise in recruitment strategy, stakeholder collaboration, and market insights, I continuously work towards creating an agile and dynamic talent pipeline, integral to EIX’s growth and long-term success in the investment landscape.

Dubai, Ae

Dubai, Ae

Dubai, Ae

• At Mark Williams I work on roles with leading global and locally based Financial Institutions, covering SWFs, Family Offices, Private Equity, Asset Management, Advisories and on few clients across Energy sector• I work on the delivery side, managing end to end candidate journey

Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, Ae

• Manage the end-to-end recruitment process from candidate selection to placement.• Conduct face to face meetings with clients for role requirements, discuss Terms of Business and negotiate fees.• Candidate sourcing through Gulf Talent, LinkedIn, CRM database and company website.• Conduct daily face to face interviews with candidates at all levels of employment.• Prepare adverts as per the job description and publish them on a range of platforms including LinkedIn, Gulf Talent and the company website.• Obtain potential leads from application forms, interview, reference and follow up for business development.• Negotiate pay and salary rates, finalising offer details between client and candidate.• Attend weekly team meetings for business development.

Dubai, Ae

Dubai, Ae

As the regions largest specialist marketing recruitment firm, we service clients globally. Honest hard work, strong ethics, integrity and expertise in our field are the cornerstones of our brand values and the four pillars of our business.Working within Public Relations, Digital, Advertising, Branding, Marketing, Creative, Media, Sales, Event, we aim to continue to lead the market with a fresh and modern approach to recruitment.I strive to use my industry passion and knowledge to truly understand my clients' requirements, business challenges and objectives to recruit the right talent for them whilst understanding my candidates needs to help them make the right career move.● Managed full life cycle recruiting for PR, Communications and Marketing positions for multinational agencies and direct clients.● Recruitment/Sourcing of passive & active candidates through extensive research, relationship building, complex internet searches, Boolean Searches, existing talent pool database and active use of in-house recruitment tools.● Develop and maintain relationships with hiring teams to ensure hiring goals are met.● Work directly with HR Directors and hiring managers to define and implement creative, strategic approaches to identifying and hiring for many difficult to fill positions.● Advanced user of LinkedIn recruiter.● Headed up IT desk for a period of 5 months in the absence of a dedicated consultant.● Was promoted to a Recruitment Consultant role to head up PR & Communications desk.● Effectively sourced international talent and managed the whole process from offer to relocation till the candidate starts.● Managed Pre-interview preparation for candidates.● Industry experience – PR & Communications – Digital – Events & Exhibitions – IT – Business Support – Hospitality

Dubai, Ae

• Managing end-to-end recruitment process, by working closely with HR managers and hiring managers.• Headhunted globally finding right talent for various clients’ from leading MNC’s to SME’s & start- ups.• Conducting quality talent market research and proactive talent sourcing.• Using advanced candidate sourcing techniques (search engines, social networks, job boards, user groups, competitive intelligence, databases and direct recruiting techniques) to deliver best-in-class talent solutions to various clients. • Advanced user of LinkedIn recruiter.• Effectively sourced international talent and managed the whole process of relocation till the candidate starts.• Execute highly effective phone interviews, video conferences and in person interviews to qualify candidates and ensure a strong and thorough interview process.• Focusing on continuous improvement and process efficiency to ensure a maximum number of new candidates, leads, internal referrals and external referrals on a daily basis.• Support the hiring managers through initial talent screening and assessment, qualified candidates recommendation and pipe-lining, and candidate relationship management.• Improving customer experience (candidates, hiring managers and HR partners).• Client account management.• Advertising vacancies appropriately by drafting and placing adverts in a wide range of social media platforms, but not limited to LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter etc.• Conducting reference checks.• Pre & post interview briefing to candidates.• Negotiating pay and salary rates and finalizing arrangements between client and candidates.• Staying up to date with news, trends and changes in client industries (signing up for news feeds, newsletters, Google alerts etc.)• Successfully recruited junior - senior level staff in the following industries: Media » Market Research » Digital » Advertising » PR » Events & Exhibitions » Marketing » Branding & Design » FMCG » Luxury Retail

Dubai , Ae

• Most of my role involved sales operations for both Corporate and Consumer customers.• I have successfully identified key customer needs and advised on solutions by applying knowledge of products, systems, applications which resulted in providing qualitative service and long term customer relationship. • I have also successfully contributed to achieving sales targets and lead a team of 5, for over a year.• Address and resolve problems in an exceptional nature to achieve timely and satisfactory solutions.• Validated the documents according to company’s criteria and be in direct contact with the documentation team for verification and corrections.• Was based in Mall of the Emirates outlet – flagship store.• Core Competencies:o Customer Acquisitiono Result Oriented o Relationship Managemento Management Reporting (Financial Reports, Sales Reports etc.) o Inventory Management o Team Managemento Strong Communication Skills• Accomplishments:o Lead a team of 5 members for over a year, inculcated a strong team environment which helped in achieving branch targetso Implemented process improvements ideas (e.g. employee best practices sharing, staff appreciation days, 80% reduction in customer service cycle time etc.)o Awarded “Best Customer service Agent” o Awarded “Knowledge Champion Award”

Singapore, Sg

• Responsible for the overall achievement of the Sales targets set by the management. • Selling banking products, maximizing accounts profitability through cross selling company's other products such as personal loans, smart loans and liability accounts, home loans. • Identifying business opportunities by listing new companies.

Dubai, Ae

Education record

High School