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Oakville, Ontario, Canada

A role that is crucial in providing guidance and advice to leadership and employees on compensation and benefits policies and programs, recommending total rewards best practices and proposing appropriate updates to policies and programs, and ensuring completion of activities related to the administration of compensation, benefit, and recognition plans and initiatives.

Oakville, Ontario, Canada

A role that is critical in providing support to a cross-functional team in the implementation and maintenance of SuccessFactors - Recruiting & Careers module.• Provide day-to-day operational support for SuccessFactors RCM. • Help users by investigating and troubleshooting their system-related questions and issues. Train users, as required.• Consult with the HR team to obtain, analyze, and document their business needs and translate those needs into system/functional requirements.• Support the enhancement of HR systems by developing, executing, and documenting system testing to verify that results satisfy expected outcomes.• Audit and analyze data to ensure integrity (data accuracy and completeness) in SuccessFactors - RCM. • Develop and maintain system documentation, user manual(s), and training materials that support recruitment processes.• Identify opportunities to continuously improve recruitment processes and systems.• Participate in SuccessFactors RCM implementations through planning, process design, configuration, testing, and deployment.

Oakville, Canada

A role that is crucial in ensuring the smooth execution of the full-cycle recruitment process by providing prompt administrative support to the Talent Acquisition team and delivering high-level customer service to all internal and external client groups. ▪ Provide support in full-cycle recruitment by posting jobs on various job boards and schools, screen applicants, develop of interview questions and assessments, participate on interview panel, complete reference checks, extend verbal job offers, make letters as appropriate, collect new hire documentation, and facilitate onboarding with Payroll and Talent Management team.▪ Manage and facilitate the hiring of Summer Students and Interns.▪ Provide frontline support to hiring managers to ensure the best hire, candidates to ensure a positive experience including debriefing unsuccessful candidates as appropriate.▪ Participate in weekly team meetings and provide status updates.

Karachi, Pakistan

A distinctive combination of HRBP and HR Generalist roles whereby full-cycle recruitment and Talent Management services were provided to assigned client groups with more than 650 employees. ▪ Managed high-volume full cycle recruitment (including bulk recruitment, contractual hiring, and intern hiring workload for all operational and technical departments and placed over 180 temporary and permanent employees in various departments with an average time to hire of 21 calendar days along with offer acceptance rate of 96%).▪ Oversaw all Talent Management, HR service delivery, and operational tasks associated with the employee lifecycle with 99% accuracy and a turnaround time of 12 working hours / 1.5 working days, designed and implemented a process of induction & onboarding, stay interviews, and exit interviews.▪ Revamped and compiled yearly manpower budgets to measure variance between the actual versus budgeted manpower headcounts and payroll costs. ▪ Liaised with key stakeholders in recruitment to assess their needs and planned recruitment in accordance with the hiring manager’s requirements. ▪ Implemented HR policies, addressed employee grievances, managed employee services, developed reports on recruitment metrics, turn over and exit interviews. ▪ Coordinated with the vendor regarding all HRIS development, implementation, modifications, and testing of different modules and reports conducted training for seven HR and over 500 end users (employees).▪ Enhanced the employer branding through social media, and other mediums i.e. engagement and benchmarking surveys, organized recruitment drives and visited job fairs▪ Planned and executed engagement surveys and coordinated employee engagement and retention activities.

Karachi, Pakistan

Karachi, Pakistan

A role where concentrated efforts were made to ensure timely acquisition of the best available talent, continuous process improvement, and effective policy design and implementation.▪ Executed all front-end recruitment and selection activities up to the offer stage, ensured up to date communication with all internal and external stakeholders.▪ Redesigned the interview assessment sheet. ▪ Maintained and handled all operational work for Martin Dow Europe. ▪ Developed a system for monthly field force orientation program.▪ Prepared and updated job descriptions, internship plans, SOPs for major HR processes. ▪ Assessed training needs for new and existing employees and maintained details on a training plan document, identified internal and external training programs to address competency gaps, and maintained employee training records.

Karachi, Pakistan

Provided front-line stakeholder and client management support to Senior Recruitment Consultants; Sourced and screened resumes, handled all interview logistics, scheduling, and coordination; Conducted preliminary rounds of interviews, negotiated rates & salaries; Sent appropriate communication to unqualified candidates; Managed business and candidate database; Generated weekly and monthly recruitment reports.

Preparing students for mathematics and geometry sections in BCAT(Aptitude tests for LUMS, IBA, IoBM, SZABIST, Karachi University and other leading business schools), SAT, GRE and GMAT tests.

Certificate, Human Resource Management

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Human Resources Management And Services, 3.24

Exchange Participant, Business Administration And Management, General, 3.73

Bachelor Of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Human Resources Management And Services, 3.42

Activities and Societies: General Secretary - Vanquishers, Sport Society, IoBM Deputy Director Marketing - Vanquishers, Sports Society.