Experience

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  SpringBoard

  • Egypt

  • Youth Career Expert & Founder

    • 2014 - Present
    • Egypt

    Founder of SpringBoard, the first career coaching practice in Egypt dedicated to youth. Extensive experience and expertise in coaching high school students and also confused college students, inspiring them to find their passion and identify their career direction, choosing best fit college majors and universities locally and abroad, as well as writing winning personal statements that best highlight their uniqueness. Have worked along side top international schools, providing career decision making sessions and offering personalized one-to-one career coaching support for their high school students. Client list boasts many students who were proudly accepted into some of the world's top ranked universities, such as Ivy League and Russel Group.

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  American University in Cairo

  • Egypt

  • Instructor - Creative Thinking & Problem Solving

    • 2014 - Present
    • Egypt

    * Teaching undergraduate students about creativity as an essential 21st century skill for the employment market across disciplines, types of creativity, and tools to become more creative. Course is project-based, and includes extensive coverage of design thinking and the design thinking process. * Teaching the application of creative thinking tools to career exploration. Designed a creative expression module "I Am More Than Meets the Eye", inspiring students to delve within themselves using various career exploration tools, to find their passion and to market themselves creatively to a prospective employer.

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  Smart Angles

  • Egypt

  • Partner & HR Manager

    • 2009 - Present
    • Egypt

    Managing all HR aspects and acting as a backup for General Manager in all operational tasks.

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  Allianz Egypt

  • Egypt

  • Head of Human Resources (Executive Committee Member)

    • 2002 - 2009
    • Egypt

    Strategic partner within the Executive Committee playing an instrumental role in restructuring and re-engineering the previous locally-owned Arab International Insurance Company to become Allianz Egypt, a multinational corporation meeting the standards of the worldwide Allianz Group. Developing an HR strategy for the organization, and setting up a fully fledged human resources department with all of its sub-functions. Creating and implementing all HR systems, policies and procedures for the company. Recruiting & managing a professional team handling compensation & benefits, training & development, career & performance management, manpower planning & recruitment, payroll & personnel affairs.Honored to have received an "Award of Recognition" from the company in 2018, and many years after my resignation, as one of the most impactful contributors to the success of Allianz Egypt since it was established. A wonderful gesture of loyalty and appreciation to its founding team members.

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  Unilever Mashreq

  • Egypt

  • Human Resources Development Manager - 6th October Factory Site

    • 2001 - 2002
    • Egypt

    Recruitment, training and development, manpower planning, career planning, skills profiling, performance management, motivation and morale building. Worked within a cross-functional team on leading and implementing TPM (Total Productive Maintenance) at the factory site, and getting the site certified. Senior HR manager on site responsible for a manpower of approximately 1500 employees.

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  Unilever Corporate Centre - London, UK

  • London, United Kingdom

  • Graduate Recruitment Manager - Central Asia & Middle East Region

    • 1999 - 2000
    • London, United Kingdom

    Management of graduate recruitment process for the Central Asia & Middle East region from the UK, targeting top calibre students from leading universities all over the UK. Working with a consultancy firm on tailoring a one-day competency-based assessment centre. Conducting on-campus presentations at target universities. Conducting all first-round short-listing & interviewing in tandem with functional departments, and short-listing students for final one-day Selection Board (assessment centre) with the Regional President, Regional Vice President & Directors as assessors. Leading & managing all Selection Board logistics and working closely with the regional executives as assessors. Conducting a thorough cost-benefit analysis of the regional graduate recruitment program and evaluation of its success

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  Unilever Egypt

  • Graduate Recruitment Manager

    • 1999 - 1999

    Management of all graduate recruitment activities including on-campus recruitment and selection, the full selection process, interviews and the assessment center. Management of the Unilever Egypt Management Trainee Program, a two year intensive job rotation and training program within the company aimed at honing key Unilever competencies and skills to fast track high potential fresh graduates into a management career.

  • Assistant Manager - Human Resources Development

    • 1997 - 1999

    Driving key human resources projects, working under direct mentorship of the Human Resources Director on various HR development activities such as competency-based graduate recruitment and selection, training needs analysis, development and implementation of company annual training calendar, performance target setting and performance appraisals. Marketing of Unilever on university campuses, company representative at all university fairs and graduate recruitment events. Initiated and marketed company summer internship program on university campuses. Launched a quarterly company in-house magazine “Good Morning Lever” as editor, and established cross-functional editorial committee. Created a company Learning Resources Centre.

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  American Univeristy in Cairo

  • Egypt

  • English Language Instructor - English Language Institute (ELI)

    • 1996 - 1996
    • Egypt

    Instructor of reading and vocabulary, grammar, listening skills, and writing to first year university students, within the context of an intensive English program to develop their English Language proficiency to a level that would enable them to comfortably pursue their studies in English within the university.

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  American University in Cairo

  • Egypt

  • English Language Teaching Fellow - English Language Institute (ELI)

    • 1993 - 1995
    • Egypt

    Instructor of English language (as a part of a TEFL Master's Degree scholarship) within an intensive English program for first year students at AUC to develop their English Language proficiency to a level that would enable them to comfortably pursue their studies in English within the university.