As part of its on-going commitment to employers throughout the region, the Middle East’s leading job site, Bayt.com, held an exclusive employer seminar entitled the ‘The Economic Downturn: Sourcing and Assessment Tools and Processes’, on April25 at the W Hotel in Doha Qatar.
The seminar brought together Qatar’s top recruitment and talent management professionals, the heads of some of Qatar’s most successful organisations, and keen recruiters to learn about the latest recruitment trends in Qatar. Case studies, presentations and panel discussions were presented by both recruitment and talent development experts at Bayt.com and a high-level panel of guest speakers.
During the seminar, Bayt.com’s Vice President of Employer Solutions, Suhail Masri, gave a keynote address entitled Optimizing Productivity and Going Back to Basics with the Right HR Formula in Qatar.
“As a home-grown Middle East business, we are vested in empowering employers and job seekers in the region. Since our launch in2000, Bayt.com continues to help leading companies in Qatar to recruit top talent. Employer focused seminars reinforce our commitment to understand and share local market dynamics, while engaging in a knowledge sharing initiative that will help them better understand the issues that affect both the recruitment and the retention of top talent in the region,” said Suhail Masri.
He adds: "Bayt.com is proud to be the chosen recruitment partner for employers in Qatar. Today, we have half a million professionals on Bayt.com residing in Qatar, and our employers tools are the fastest, easiest, and most cost-effective way for employers to source top talent in the country."
During the seminar, a panel discussion that shed light on the modern HR department featured industry heavyweights Raja Assili, Chief Operating Officer, HEC Paris; Aysha al Mudahka, Chief Executive Officer, QBIC; Zuhair Naqvi, Managing Director, Dicotech; and Tamer Amer, Regional HR Manager at PORR Qatar. The panel covered pressing topics such as how today’s professionals approach a job search, what tools and techniques can be used in the modern HR department and how they can successfully tap into leading job sites to enhance their ROI.
In addition to the panel, a host of high-level guest speakers were invited to address the hiring and retention of employees through specific case studies. These included Filip Gilbert, Partner at Deloitte & Touche Bakr Abulkhair & Co; Hasan Imam Khawaja, Manager Talent Acquisition & Retention at Qatar District Cooling Company; and Munther Zeidan, General Manager at TAQAT for Distance Employment.
Bayt.com is committed to empowering employers in Qatar, and across the region, with the tools, technologies and information they need to source, attract and retain top talent. Bayt.com has catered to organizations large and small, in both the private and public sector, and across the entire industrial spectrum, since its inception in2000. Bayt.com hosts dedicated employer events on a regular basis and has been instrumental in matching hundreds of thousands of top talented professionals with relevant career opportunities, valuable career content, and great opportunities for professional networking.