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The Middle East's largest HR event to date, The HR Summit and Expo 2012, was a phenomenal success with over 1220 HR professionals attending the show and featuring 80+ speakers and thought leaders.

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Arabian Gazette is your window to the Middle East and North Africa region that provides you with insightful news, features and analysis about matters related to business, economy, finance, society, technology and environment.

ManagementNext is India's leading Management and Leadership magazine. Its mission is to nurture holistic thinking and doing among executives and entrepreneurs through sharp insights and fresh perspectives. The magazine aspires to initiate compelling conversations among business and team leaders. Keeping with the times, the magazine is now made available as an app on iPad, iPone and Android devices and on digital magazine stores. With the arrival of the truly digital experience, the magazine's reach is now global.

HireMENA.com is the first of its kind digital publication to focus on recruitment and HR best practices in the MENA region. Featuring curated and original content, HireMENA.com is a fast growing collaborative community. HireMENA.com seeks to report and provide information for employers, recruiters and human resource professionals in the Middle East and North Africa.

Be sure to follow us on Twitter & Like us on Facebook for the freshest HireMENA news.

Official Emiratisation Partner

First of its kind to offer its employment services and job opportunities to UAE nationals only; ershaad.ae is a provider of emiratisation support services to UAE employers across all industries and emirates that are active in seeking and employing talented Emiratis (including Interns, Fresh Grads, Operational Staff, Mid-level Management and Top Executives).

To its online audience, ershaad.ae has brought to the UAE a state- of-art recruitment engine "www.ershaad.ae"; which acts as a user friendly and direct communication line between UAE top employers and talented Emirati Job seekers. The online portal currently serves more than 150 of the most prestigious brands in the UAE and more than 30,000 online UAE nationals since May 2008 only!

In its 4th edition; ershaad.ae also publishes a comprehensive employers' directory, and an interactive DigiMag, that offer its readers a convenient one-stop information bank to the region's top employers and a collection of carefully selected professional development digest.

Through its various business channels and recruitment tools, ershaad.ae aims to empower UAE Nationals by directing availability and offering real career choice to job seekers; who are willingly able to make a difference and actively take part in shaping the country's future.

Marketing Partner

Learning Minds! Group is a comprehensive learning and human capital management company. Formed in 2007, Learning Minds! Group has grown tremendously over last few years, credit to its continued commitment of providing quality-learning solutions to clients.

Till recently, we were known for providing the best Training Solutions, however, based on constant client's demand and enhanced vision, we have expanded the our portfolio of services, that includes:

• Learning and Development Solutions
• Talent Management Solutions
• Creative Learning Solutions

For more information on how we can help improve performance in your organization please email info@learningmindsgroup.com or visit www.learningmindsgroup.com.

Strategic Career Partner

Bayt.com is the leading job site in the Gulf and Middle East, connecting job seekers with employers looking to hire. Every day, thousands of new job vacancies are listed on the award-winning platform from the region's top employers.

First Select International is a premier recruitment company based in the UAE for over 25 years. Through its offices located in eight countries they provide Executive Search, Overseas Recruitment, Contract Staffing, Training, HR Consultancy, Psychometric Testing and Video Conferencing Services. Within the UAE, FSI operates through its branch offices in Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Ajman in the following vertical sectors: Aviation, Alternate Energy, Banking, Call Center, Education, Engineering, Hospitality, Healthcare, IT, Media, Oil & Gas, Office Support, Retail & Security industries with a mission to find 'The Right Person for the Right Job'.

The HR Review is the first and only magazine that specializes in the subject of Human Capital Management in the Middle East.

With a main focus on tackling the topic of human resources from a strategic business perspective, The HR Review aims at providing a profoundly assessed analytical content and recommendations on the latest people management challenges in Middle Eastern and specifically Arab businesses.

By this, the HR Review embarks on building concrete awareness in the Corporate World about the criticality of the Human Factor for success and continuity. The Magazine also aims at bringing the worlds of Business and HR together in terms of shared responsibility for Organizational Performance.

The HR Review is published every two months; initially as an e-magazine till end of 2011. Starting January 2012, The HR Review will be available in both 'e' and print versions for its readers.

Human Capital, launched in June 1997, has created a niche for itself as India's leading monthly magazine on HR. The magazine pioneered a change in the HR industry by introducing for the first time, the concept of an HR business magazine, which provides local and global perspectives, as well as information on HR vendors, products and services. Human Capital continues to be India's most respected and widely read HR magazine, with a reader base of over 65,000 all India. Human Capital's website www.humancapitalonline.com contains an exhaustive online library over 1200 articles from 14 years back issues.

Founded in November 2011 by recent graduates Iba Masood and Syed Ahmed, gradberry.com is the Middle East's leading careers portal, exclusively for student internships and graduate jobs. Gradberry.com is a UAE-based start up which aims to help employers in finding the right graduate for their organization and plant fruitful careers for students and graduates. The portal is currently home to more than 8,000 students and graduates from the UAE and abroad. The Fruit Bowl, gradberry's career blog, provides career resources to support and facilitate the job search experience for students and new grads.

HR People Magazine is a professional magazine created to provide information on the HR profession to support the attainment of high people performance. It is designed to be one of the foremost magazines dedicated to the people profession in Nigeria and the larger African community. The scope of the publication includes, recruitment and selection, learning and development, compensation management, reward and benefits, talent management, HR technologies, performance management, employee relations and engagements, health and safety, labour relations.

21st Edition is scheduled from 15th - 17th February, 2013 at Taj Lands End, Mumbai. The Congress will host a pre-congress "3rd Compensation & Rewards Summit " on 14th February, 2013 and post-congress “ Open Innovation” on 18th February,
2013. The Congress will be an Executive Level Retreat in which participants will review Evolving Trends in HRM that could change their paradigm on leading people at work. We would urge you to please visit www.worldhrdcongress.com.