Rand Qudsi

Career Coach | Talent Acquisition Specialist

Salary / Daily rate

Amman, Jordan

Freelance, open to permanent contract

Skills

Talent Acquisition

Languages

ArabicEnglish

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.

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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

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