Kamal Mehta {uae.projects@gmail.com}

Current

Advisor : Recruitment and Staffing at The Federal Ministry of Education : U.A.E.

Past

Gobal projects - HR - Recruitment and Staffing Manager - Construction AP 1000 Nuclear Power Plants. at Shaw Stone and Webster
Regional - HR - Recruitment and Staffing Manager at Areva - Dubai - MIddle East Head Office - Nuclear Power Plants / Distribution and Transmission
Country - HR - Recruitment and Staffing Manager - Expansion of Dubai Airport project. at Siemens Airport Logistics {CoC Dubai} INS

Engineering Projects - Recruitment Manager - Divisonal Head at Reach Exec Search Consultancy

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Education

Negotiation Skills
Project Management
Tata Institute of Social Sciences

University of Mumbai
University of Mumbai
University of Mumbai

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Industry

Staffing and Recruiting

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Kamal Mehta {uae.projects@gmail.com}’s Summary

Senior CEO with 18 + years of dedicated Recruitment Industry experience in managing & implementing effective human capital solutions for multi billion dollar Projects in U.A.E and M.E . Core Competencies are in handling in house, complete project cycle [ c2c ] of recruitments with hands on exp in cross border Executive Search;Resourcing, Negotiations, Contracts and Strategy.

Managerial: Skill’s and Competencies:

A] Commitment:
Able to provide strategic approach to the management systems of an organization through policy and objective setting, focusing on branding of recruitment services that are corporate and project specific, retaining specific principles that are process proven, refining those that are deficient, updating key processes of an organization .

B] Communications, Internal and External:
Involving staff and clients in systems and processes, enhancing departmental interactions, ensuring that staff does not work in isolation but function like a team, focus on client and project servicing and retention.

C] People Management:
Conducting training and workshops, Counseling.Improving morale and motivation, ensure that success is synergy of people and processes.

D] Strategy:
Rolling out and planning Recruitment strategies to headhunt; identify ;source and short list project specific competencies for an in time; in house project recruitments.

E] Collaboration: Large no of positions [Project specific, in Time Recruitments].
Perpetuating and Sustaining strategic partnership with short listed Recruitment agencies for outsourced positions. Involving the Hiring Managers, Recruitment Agencies and key Hr staff in the process of selections and onboarding leading to quicker hiring cycles.

Kamal Mehta {uae.projects@gmail.com}’s Specialties:

Core Competency in Executive CrossBorder search.
Career Achievements :Corporate In-house recruitment and search practice leading to multi million dirhams cost savings in out sourced recruitment fees.
Ardent follower of Mr. Lou Adler, Senior CEO with Consulting and Corporate background.

Interests:

Project Specific Talent Acquisition
Executive Search
Recruitment Planning
Recruitment Strategy
Recruitment Metrics

Kamal Mehta {uae.projects@gmail.com}’s Experience

Advisor : Recruitment and Staffing

The Federal Ministry of Education : U.A.E.

(Education Management industry)

October 2008 — Present (10 months)

Recruitments and Staffings for the Federal Ministry's, schools {K12} and colleges in U.A.E.
Gobal projects - HR - Recruitment and Staffing Manager - Construction AP 1000 Nuclear Power Plants.

Shaw Stone and Webster

(Oil & Energy industry)

January 2008 — September 2008 (9 months)

Working as a Recruitment and Staffing Manager with an American Fortune 500 company. Recruitment of Senior Engineers from the Nuclear power plant construction Industry .Short Term assignment.
Regional - HR - Recruitment and Staffing Manager

Areva - Dubai - MIddle East Head Office - Nuclear Power Plants / Distribution and Transmission

(Public Company; FR 0004275832; Oil & Energy industry)

February 2007 — December 2007 (11 months)

Responsible for project specific in House Recruitments and Staffings, laying down corporate recruitments and staffing policies and procedures, conducting training and workshops,establishing a center of competency for the group"s Head Office in Dubai. Completed recruitments for the various sub stations projects in UAE in a record time of one year.
Country - HR - Recruitment and Staffing Manager - Expansion of Dubai Airport project.

Siemens Airport Logistics {CoC Dubai} INS

(Aviation & Aerospace industry)

February 2005 — January 2007 (2 years)

Head of the in House Recruitment division. Job responsibilities include handling Project Recruitments [Sourcing-Head Hunting with a Global content targeting Engineering Competency's and skill sets relevant to the Company’s projects in Dubai] .Focused on Cross Border Exec Search specific to the ongoing ( Multi Billion Dollars Projects) projects in the Middle East, Gulf and Africa - [Expansion of Dubai Airport :14 Billion Dhms project :Three major Packages: Airports Baggage Handling Systems[ T3 project], Air Cargo Mega Terminal Construction ; Maintenance of existing Dubai Airport Infrastructure and facilities project- T1 / T2 [CS] and T3 . Completed recruitments for all three major project Sub packages in two years time. Client - DCA -Dubai Civil Aviation ;Project handover scheduled for end 2007.
Engineering Projects - Recruitment Manager - Divisonal Head

Reach Exec Search Consultancy

(Staffing and Recruiting industry)

January 2003 — February 2005 (2 years 2 months)

Heading the Exec Search practice at Reach Consulting,responsibilites included Cross border Exec search,Resourcing,conducting in house training and workshops, Marketing and Sales,being a divisonal profit center country head with SBU responsibilites.

Kamal Mehta {uae.projects@gmail.com}’s Education

Negotiation Skills

Certificate , 2006 — 2006

Dubai: Fundamentals of Negotiation skills

Activities and Societies:

Certification by Executrain U.S.A.
Project Management

PMI , Project Management , 2006 — 2006

Dubai - Course on Project Management Fundamentals.

Activities and Societies:

Certification Executrain.U.S.A.
Tata Institute of Social Sciences

Certificateship , Research , 1984 — 1984

T.I.S.S. has been the research faculty nucleus; from which evolved,India's and some of the world's finest, b2b institutions like IIT; IIM; XLRI etc... Way back in 1960's...Completed my Research with Distinction

Activities and Societies:

Tata Institute of Social Sciences is a pioneer in the field of research in the Asia Pacific region. It has made worldwide contributions in the areas of Human Resources; Social policy planning; Intervention strategies and development of Industrial Relations. The Institute offers postgraduate and doctoral programmes in Human Resources, Social sciences, Personnel management, Industrial relations and Social work. The Institute has 8 research, 2 resource and multiple research oriented sub cells.
University of Mumbai

Post Graduate , Management Studies , 1981 — 1983

Studies included two months of internship at Air India - India''s flagship national carrier.

Activities and Societies:

K C College - Churchgate - Bombay - Completed my Post Graduate Management studies with Distinction.
University of Mumbai

Bachelor of Science , Physics Major , 1977 — 1981

Team member of the Colleges cricket team.

Activities and Societies:

Major studies in Physics [NM College; University of Bombay] Andheri East - Bombay - Graduated with Honors.
University of Mumbai

High School Certificate , High School Major , 1965 — 1977

Youngest student to pass out from the high school with A+ Grades and with two double promotions in the High School.

Activities and Societies:

Holy Family Convent [High School - Andheri East, Bombay].
Completed primary Education - High School -with Distinction.

Additional Information

Kamal Mehta {uae.projects@gmail.com}’s Websites:

Kamal Mehta {uae.projects@gmail.com}’s Interests:

Recruitment forums Corporate investments - Real Estate. Networking Fishing and Trekking Investments and Finance Movies,Music and Drama Fine Arts,Paintings,Archeology and Antique collection. Recruitments and Staffings International Embassy / Counsular forums

Kamal Mehta {uae.projects@gmail.com}’s Groups:

*Member; Dubai Quality group Dubai
*International Executive Service Corps;Stamford Connecticut
*IESC:Member American Executives Group . July 2001
*AESC:Member The Association of Executive Search Consultants- New York
*Corporate Connect: Member
*Association of International Consultants:Registered Professional
Recruitment Expert August 2001
*Member Dubai Human Resource Forum
*Member Tanmia [ Emiratization Institution ]
*Member German Business Group
*Member Turkish Business Group
*Member Canadian Business Group