
Rand Qudsi
Career Coach | Talent Acquisition Specialist
Salary / Daily rate
Amman, Jordan
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
Career Coach & HR specialist with 6+ years experience at UNDP, NRC & major corporations. Successfully coached hundreds of clients to career transitions and achieved 80% placement rate for job seekers. Expert in recruitment, talent acquisition, and building HR systems from ground up. Ready to guide your career growth and help you land your dream role.
Work experience
Career Coach
Career CareFreelance
Feb 2021 - Present
5 years 9 months
•Help clients in identifying personal career interests. •Assist clients in planning strategic career moves and developing needed career skills. • Guide clients who desire to enter career or change career. •Perform personality and skills assessments on clients. •Administer aptitude tests to help determine clients’ interests and talents. •Consider clients’ experience and education when recommending career paths. •Recommend additional education to clients to help them achieve their career goals. •Counsel clients on how to strengthen their weaknesses. •Advise students on courses to take in high school and college to prepare for a particular career. •Help students choose the right colleges to match their career choices. •Help students locate financial aid and other funding to pay for their educations •Review clients’ resumes and cover letters and provides feedback. •Hold seminars and workshops to educate individuals who are searching for the right career path (for both students and job seeker).
UNDP
Oct 2021 - Jan 2025
3 years 4 months
New York, United States · Remote
Human Resources Analyst
Feb 2023 - Jan 2025
2 years
New York, United States · Remote
-Prepared documents, statistics, and reports both pro-actively and as required or requested. -Mentored all transactions related to positions, recruitment, hires, benefits, and separations. -Worked closely with cross-functional teams to design and integrate gender-sensitive recruitment, retention, and development strategies, improving organizational compliance with diversity and inclusion frameworks. -Tracked contract status, management, and administration of all NCE Unit’s interns and I/NPSAs both at headquarters and in the field, and act proactively to extend, or conclude, them in a timely manner; -Developed effective succession management and workforce planning through timely and accurate projection of vacancies. -Coordinated with NCE procurement support teams and/or BMS/CPU efforts to ensure optimal approach is adopted to contract external experts, including feeding rosters with identified recommended candidates. -Continuously developed successful implementation of policies, practices and procedures -Ensured a transparent and competitive recruitment and selections processes -Advised hiring managers on the best staffing modality and appropriate use of different contract types and recruitment methods. -facilitated competitive recruitment and selection processes including reviewing and provided guidance on development of job descriptions, screening of candidates, preparation of relevant assessment tools and reports, proper panel composition, writing of interview reports when necessary, and preparing submissions to the Appointment and Promotion Board/Panel in collaboration with HR Business Partners. -Obtained budget clearances, requesting updates or creation of positions, updated organigrammes, undertaking internal circulation and sending job descriptions to OHR for classification. -Provided staff trainings on briefs and debriefs on issues relating to areas of work.
Recruiter
Oct 2021 - Mar 2023
1 year 6 months
Amman, Jordan
Skills: Career Management
Transition to Employment - Human Resources
Norwegian Refugee Council
Jul 2020 - Oct 2021
1 year 4 months
Amman, Jordan
Acting as a liaison between job-seekers and employers Job seekers / Beneficiaries: • Leading and conducting soft skills and employability trainings for job- seekers and registered beneficiaries • Developing a continuous career coaching content and program to beneficiaries • Career coaching and guiding beneficiaries • Providing a long-term career guidance tool kit for the beneficiaries • Placing and employing 80% of registered beneficiaries with contracted employers • Reaching out to qualified job-seekers by disseminating announcements thru new channels Employers: • Consulting Human Resources services to interested employers • Building a Human Resources system to contracted employers • Generating HR handbook, guidelines and internal policies to contracted employers • Creating Job descriptions ,needed templates and organization chart to contracted employers • Building a performance appraisal and evaluation system to contracted employers • Creating a leave tracker system with employees personal information • Announcing opportunities , screening , interviewing and recruiting qualified candidates to open vacancies • On-boarding and off-boarding employees for the contracted employers
On-Boarding Coordinator, Talent and Acquisition
Tata Consultancy Services
Jul 2019 - May 2020
11 months
Dad, 2854 Hungary
• Ensured smooth operations of on-boarding new joiners while in correspondence with candidate experience • Coordinated with multiple stake holders to ensure internal process guidelines were managed correctly • Worked on special initiatives to properly engage employees with TATA Consultancy services • Recruited and Interviewed candidates
Career Coach
Business Coach Kft.
Feb 2019 - May 2019
4 months
Budapest, Hungary
Learning and training about self-coaching, career coaching and organisational coaching techniques and philosophies
Recruiter
PwC
Jul 2018 - Oct 2018
4 months
Amman, Jordan
Screening,filtering and assessing profiles along with conducting phone and face to face interviews with candidates. During my Internship I heavily supported and assisted Recruitment Department in few interesting projects.
Sustainability Excellence
Aug 2015 - Jan 2018
2 years 6 months
Amman, Jordan
HR Coordinator
Jan 2016 - Jan 2018
2 years 1 month
Amman, Jordan
Built a whole new HR Department through multitasking in recruiting process, human resources policies, Legal matters, operations and administrative tasks, addressing employee matters and organizing work activities for the company Main Accomplishments: • Reduced turnover rate by 12% with the assistance of the CEO and operation manager thru addressing and solving employee’s matters • Introduced and implemented a successful HR system in order to keep personal records, sick-leaves, annual leaves, performance appraisals and other human resources functions that matters • Successfully implemented strategies to reduce expenses • Created a friendly working environment where employees felt comfortable through introducing flexible working hours, semi- causal dress, weekly on- formal get together outgoing and other similar activity • Introduced effective performance appraisal process that satisfies all parties • Created Human Resources appraiser, appraise and Human Resources forms • Created Company Handbook which provided clear guidance • Created templates and letters including off- boarding, on-boarding, welcoming new employees, applicants’ follow-ups and other important templates • Addressed employee matters , travel arrangements and organized work activities for the company. • Prepared and coordinated any functions pertaining to employment, compensation, labor negotiations, policies and employee relations at Jordan, UAE and Qatar which gave me the opportunity to have a wider scope and in-depth knowledge in the gulf are ( Qatar , UAE) and Jordan.
ESG analysis
Aug 2015 - Jan 2016
6 months
Amman, Jordan
Assessment of MENA companies based on Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors.Supporting investors to make better informed decisions through innovative sustainability analysis.
Trainee
Protech Co.
Aug 2013 - Oct 2013
3 months
Amman, Jordan
Human Resources Assistant
Education
Eötvös Loránd University
Master of Science - MS
2018 - 2020
2 years 1 month
Princess Sumaya University for Technology
Bachelor's degree
2011 - 2015
4 years 1 month
Amman National School
International Baccalaureate (IB)
2001 - 2011
10 years 1 month