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FranklinCovey is a global leader in leadership, strategy, execution and personal development. At FranklinCovey, our passion and focus is on meeting the challenge of the ages: achieving greatness. Many seek it. Yet most fail to achieve it. FranklinCovey Middle East’s mission is to enable greatness in people, leaders, and organizations throughout the Middle East. Our aim is to develop future leaders by delivering global knowledge and practical experience necessary to lead successfully in the new global knowledge worker’s age. For several years, we have studied greatness in unprecedented depth. We have had the distinct privilege of working with leading organizations around the world striving to achieve it. We’ve learned that it’s as simple -and as challenging- as moving the core performers toward the top.

FranklinCovey’s client base covers more than 90 percent of the Fortune 500 organizations as well as numerous government entities and educational institutions. We have more than 3,000 highly qualified facilitators around the world and more than 25,000 client facilitators. With 2000 associates providing professional services in more than 145 countries around the world, we train more than 1 million people every year in thousands of leading organizations.

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Hay Group is a global management consulting firm that works with leaders to transform strategy into reality. We develop talent, organise people to be more effective and motivate them to perform at their best. With 89 offices in 47 countries, we work with over 7000 clients across the world.

For over 60 years, we have been renowned for the quality of our research and the intellectual rigour of our work. We transform research into actionable insights. We give our clients breakthrough perspectives on their organisation and we do it in the most efficient way to achieve the desired results. Our focus is on making change happen and helping people and organisations realise their potential.

We have over 500 clients in the Middle East and we work with them across many of countries in both the private, public sectors, and across every major industry. We work with them across a range of issues such as:

• Building employee motivation and engagement
• Leadership development and talent management
• Clarifying strategies
• Restructuring the organisation
• Boosting organisational performance
• Making mergers and acquisitions work
• Government reform
• Making teams work effectively
• Job Design and defining work
• Job Evaluation and Grading
• Providing information on remuneration in 14 countries
• Rewarding for performance and results

We don’t believe any one particular area of expertise is the magic answer. We work together with our clients to design customised solutions combining a range of services, depending on what we really feel they need.

PREMIUM RECRUITMENT SPONSORS:

MonsterGulf.com was launched in 2006 to connect the most qualified job seekers with the progressive organisations in the Middle East. MonsterGulf.com covers 8 countries - United Arab Emirates, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain, Qatar, Jordan and Lebanon. The site today has a rich database of 1.7 million registered job seekers who have put their trust on Monster to find them the right job. Over 2,500 companies in the Middle East use Monster products to find the best suited candidates for their vacant positions.

With a strong “Talent from anywhere” proposition, Monster Gulf helps employers in the Middle East find the right talent not just in the Middle East but also across the world. With a local presence in key markets in North America, Europe, and Asia, Monster works for everyone by connecting employers with quality job seekers at all levels and by providing personalized career advice to consumers globally.

For more information, please visit:
www.monstergulf.com. Or email to info@monstergulf.com

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Leadership Training and Consultancy (LTC) is a dynamic Multinational company dedicated to taking people and organizations from where they are to where they want to be.

Since its inception in 1998 in Egypt, LTC has cemented its position as the pioneer and undisputed market leader in Human Resources and Leadership development. As a tribute to its amazing success, LTC has expanded its operation base to partner with clients spread throughout the Middle East and North Africa through local offices in Dubai and Doha with more to come, employing world class, internationally acclaimed training programs such as Ken Blanchard’s Situational Leadership II, and Acumen Learning’s Building Business Acumen and many more.

By taking individuals through the steps of Self Discovery, Knowledge and Attitude development, Behavior and Skills training, and finally Continuous Performance Improvement, LTC has garnered a decade old reputation for quality delivery in consultancy, training, leadership and organizational development.

Simply put, LTC unleashes human potential, giving leaders of tomorrow the tools of success, today.

Forum is a world leader in helping organisations achieve the results of their growth strategies faster, more effectively, and more completely. We focus on the essential driver of growth strategies: people.

We help organisations transform their sales force, refocus on the customer, shift to a performance culture, and develop people at all levels. Our work has contributed to improved profitability and increased market share, revenue growth, customer and employee loyalty for our clients.

We combine experience and research-led insight in learning design, consulting, and facilitation to bring about changes in attitudes, beliefs, and behaviours that enable employees to achieve and exceed the desired benefits of a strategic change, to reduce time to improved performance, and to sustain the change over the long term.

www.forum.com

Zurich International Life (Zurich) is registered in the Isle of Man and has established branches in Dubai, Bahrain, Qatar, Singapore and Hong Kong with regulated activities in the UK, Sweden and Switzerland. Zurich opened its first office in Dubai in 1988, with a second office following in the Gate Village in 2006. The Middle East is an important and rapidly growing region for Zurich and staff growth in the region has increased from just over 100 in 2006 to over 200 in 2007. This local expertise means that we can offer customers the global strength of a leading insurer with the detailed knowledge of local markets.

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About RecruitGulf.com

Recruitgulf.com is a UAE based recruitment company which provides jobseekers with the perfect platform to find the job of their dreams and for recruiters to identify the right candidates, easily and cost-effectively.

It forms part of the Saongroup.com, one of the fastest growing online recruitment companies in the world which comprises a portfolio of successful recruitment websites, including Irishjobs.ie, NIjobs.com, Jobs.ie, Myjobgroup.com CaribbeanJobs.com, SHjob.cn (Shanghai) and Myjob.com (Beijing). Saongroup has offices in Ireland, United Kingdom Luxemburg, Caribbean, China (8 cities including Shanghai and Beijing) South Africa and India.

With a presence in 11 countries, Saongroup.com employs more than 1,500 staff and launched its Middle East site RecruitGulf.com in June 2007.

Currently, RecruitGulf.com has over 3,000 jobs on its website for the region and records over 100,000 unique visits per month.

With its cutting edge technology, RecruitGulf.com provides services to some of the largest companies in the region, ranging from airlines and banks to the construction industry.

In short, it’s the one stop shop for job seekers.

"Ascent’s mission is “To be a partner with companies in building great organisations through developing their people.”

Established in Dubai in 2000, Ascent provides people within various industries opportunities for to grow and realise their own potential, thus enabling organisations to maximise their human assets, optimising efficiency and effectiveness towards increased profitability.

Through focusing on coaching, facilitation and human resource systems development, Ascent delivers solutions that are customised to suit the needs of a particular business’ organisational culture and people.

Ascent exclusively offers a broad portfolio of world renowned training products such as Situational Leadership®, Herrmann International’s HBDI®, Think on Your Feet®, teambonding™ and Business Today Simulations, as well as access to specialists in various fields of soft skill and attitudinal training.

Utilising highly skilled senior facilitators with relevant and credible experience, along with a strong back-office team, Ascent ensures efficient support for all their customers and trainers.

Stanton Chase International was founded in 1990, today is one of the 10th largest Executive Search Firms in the world.

Stanton Chase International is a specialized global executive search consultancy firm of first choice to multinational companies, offering executive search services with worldwide reach, regional knowledge and local insight. Today, it operates with truly integrated resources of over 64 offices in 39 countries. Stanton Chase is ranked 7th globally and 3rd in the Asia Pacific Region.

Stanton Chase in Dubai was established in 2006. Strategically positioned to serve a growing demand for global talent across the Middle East region. Our team consists of industry specialized consultants and researchers. It is important to state that all our Partners and Consultants have gained their experience and knowledge, working as executives in the industries they serve.

Stanton Chase International is a member of the Association of Executive Search Consultants.

As the fastest emerging job site in the Gulf, Naukri.com - Gulf is an online platform for recruiters to hire quality talent from the Gulf and for job seekers to land their dream job. Backed by the strength of Naukri.com, India’s no.1 job site, it has made a head-way in the market with almost 1200 clients and is aggressively expanding.

Thousands of job seekers from UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, etc visit the site daily. The site offers recruiters the advantage of a diverse database of CVs from industries like Construction, Banking, Oil & Gas, Information Technology, Hardware, Hospitality, Healthcare, Education, Telecom, Petrochemicals, Logistics and so on.

At Naukri.com – Gulf, we regularly evaluate needs and create tools to ease and streamline the hiring process. Recruiters can leverage their executive search with a comprehensive set of recruitment solutions and gain the advantage of technology to optimize recruitment.

Jerry Varghese is a frontrunner group in professional recruitment solutions. We are consultants who provide integrated, comprehensive and cost effective placements in business, industry and government. Having a major presence in the Middle East, we are involved in staffing on a global scale.

For the last 25 years we have been employing our global sourcing expertise to couple with the understanding of the recruitment dilemmas faced by the GCC employers to provide tailor made solutions helping address specific recruitment challenges of the current times.

We excel in 11 industry verticals and staff our client’s varied manpower requirements irrespective of the type and the scales.

Jerry Varghese is fully geared to take up the most complex recruitment assignments and complete them with ease and on time. Repeatedly recognized by our client and candidate communities alike, our values, commitment and expertise truly make your search for human resources, end at our doorsteps.

We at Careertunity.com

Careertunity.com was conceived as an online recruitment medium to support current market needs. Careertunity.com has attempted to fill a gap in the services provided by today’s recruitment portals. It is supported with an offline recruiting partner who is a key player in the UAE market.

In the initial phase, it focuses on job seekers. The portal’s features are designed keeping in mind the fast pace of corporate life. At present it is a repository of thousands registered candidates and the numbers are increasing exponentially.

Although we are driven with a passion for helping people with their careers, our plan is to bridge the needs of both employers and jobseekers. Our aim is to provide the best product and services in the region to both parties. For employers, it offers an extremely convenient, efficient and cost effective recruitment platform through innovative products and solutions.

Our online advertising options provide increased visibility to companies and our resume database search allows recruiters to locate candidates with specialized skill-sets quickly and efficiently.

Focus Learning was founded in 1996 with a vision to be a global player in the field of human resource development and organisational learning.

Remaining true to its vision, Focus Learning has delivered training for the benefit of more than 500 corporations in Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia, Singapore, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Hong Kong, China, Sudan, Bahrain, Oman, Kuwait, the UAE and Saudi Arabia.

Multinational companies that Focus Learning services includes: Motorola, Panasonic, Toshiba, Mattel, Sharp, Hitachi, Canon, Samsung, JVC, Pioneer, Texas Instruments, Siemens, Intel, Mercedes Benz, Colgate-Palmolive, Toyota, Maxell, Western Digital, B Braun, and Hewlett Packard (HP) to name few.

Focus Learning has been providing training to the GCC for the past several years. Among the organisations that have benefited from Focus Learning training are: SABIC, Saudi Aramco Mobil Refinery Company(Samref), Saudi Hollandi Bank, Almarai, Dubai World, Dubai International Airport, Emirates National Oil Company (ENOC), Etisalat Academy, ADGAS, Dubai Municipality, The Executive Office, Abu Dhabi Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Al-Ain Municipality, MTC Kuwait & Bahrain (now known as Zain), Batelco, BANAGAS, E.K Kanoo, Oman Airlines, Majan Electricity & Muscat Electricity Company, Oman Wastewater, Petrodar, Canar Telecommunication, Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC), KNPC, National Aviation Services (NAS), Commercial Bank of Kuwait (CBK) to name few.

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Precision employment services was conceived, in 1995, as a result of the firm conviction that the activity of sourcing human resources should provide much more than the trial and error approach so often encountered in the industry.

Placing people precisely best sums up our company philosophy. To achieve this, we study the client organization, its needs and job specifications and then offer quality solutions.

With a finely honed combination of skills and experience, our consultants are at your service to provide the required assistance in ensuring that candidates are placed precisely and in a timely manner.

We will work hand in hand with your key members in reaching cost effective, practical business solutions with a view to assist in maximizing your profits, performance and productivity.

We would be only too pleased to be of assistance to you with regard to your staffing requirements.

Reach us and you will find the difference.

Trust us; we know who is good for you……

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WHAT IS SHRM?
The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) is the world’s largest association devoted to human resource management. With a membership of more than 225,000 individuals in over 130 countries, SHRM serves the needs of HR professionals and advances the interests of the HR profession. Founded in 1948, SHRM has more than 575 affiliated chapters within the United States and subsidiary offices in China and India. Visit SHRM Online at www.shrm.org.

In alignment with our commitment to provide the most essential and comprehensive resources, best practices and a network of valuable contacts needed to develop the global human resource profession, SHRM is proud to provide premier educational programs and membership for international HR professionals in the GCC and Middle East.

Whether you are a senior HR professional or new to the HR profession, attending a SHRM Educational program can help you obtain the necessary knowledge and skills to be successful in this worldwide market.

SHL Group, the global leader in talent assessment solutions in the workplace, supports organisations in the selection and development of people at all levels and across all sectors.

Operating in more than 50 countries and in more than 30 languages, SHL offers the world’s largest portfolio of assessment tools and delivers innovative approaches to help organisations increase productivity, identify future leaders and gain a competitive advantage through improved people performance. In the last 12 months, SHL has delivered over two million objective assessments.

SHL works with thousands of organisations worldwide, including 80% of the FTSE 100 and 50% of the Fortune 500. For more information, please visit www.shl.com.

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