Talent Acquisition Specialist Resume Example
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Rania Haddad
Talent Acquisition Specialist — Tech & Commercial Hiring
rania.haddad@example.com+971 55 218 4470Dubai, United Arab Emirateslinkedin.com/in/raniahaddad-ta
Applicants screened4,800
Interviews run610
Offers made81
Hires74
Summary
Full-cycle recruiter with 8 years hiring engineers, product people and sales teams across the GCC. I run the whole process: intake with hiring managers, sourcing on LinkedIn Recruiter and GitHub, structured interviews, offers and onboarding hand-off. Last year I closed 74 roles at an average of 31 days, with 92% offer acceptance and Emiratisation targets met.
Experience
Senior Talent Acquisition Partner
Careem · Dubai
Mar 2021 – Present
74Hires in 2025
31 dAvg time-to-hire
92%Offer acceptance
- Own hiring for engineering and product (Android, iOS, backend, data); partner with 14 hiring managers on intake, scorecards and weekly pipeline reviews
- Built a GitHub and community sourcing playbook; outbound now delivers 58% of engineering hires and agency spend fell AED 1.1M
- Launched a UAE-national graduate track with 3 universities; 19 Emirati engineers hired in two intakes, 100% first-year retention
Recruitment Consultant — Technology
Hays · Dubai
Jun 2018 – Feb 2021
AED 2.4MFees billed
- Placed 96 permanent and contract IT professionals with banks, telcos and government entities; top biller in the Dubai tech desk for 2 years
- Ran salary benchmarking for clients using live placement data; cut offer renegotiations by a third
Recruitment Coordinator
Bayt.com · Dubai
Sep 2016 – May 2018
- Scheduled 1,200+ interviews a year and kept the ATS clean; candidate NPS rose from 41 to 63
- Wrote job ads in English and Arabic for 300+ roles and A/B-tested titles to lift apply rates 18%
Selected projects
Interview scorecard rollout
Competency-based scorecards for 40 role families; 90-day attrition of new hires down from 11% to 5%
Hiring-manager training
Half-day interviewer certification for 120 managers; panel no-shows and late feedback cut by half
Summary example
Full-cycle recruiter with [N] years hiring engineers, product people and sales teams across the GCC. I run the whole process: intake with hiring managers, sourcing on LinkedIn Recruiter and GitHub, structured interviews, offers and onboarding hand-off. Last year I closed [N] roles at an average of [N] days, with [X%] offer acceptance and Emiratisation targets met.
Example bullet points for a Talent Acquisition Specialist
- Own hiring for engineering and product (Android, iOS, backend, data); partner with [N] hiring managers on intake, scorecards and weekly pipeline reviews
- Built a GitHub and community sourcing playbook; outbound now delivers [X%] of engineering hires and agency spend fell [$X]
- Launched a UAE-national graduate track with [N] universities; [N] Emirati engineers hired in two intakes, [X%] first-year retention
- Placed [N] permanent and contract IT professionals with banks, telcos and government entities; top biller in the Dubai tech desk for [N] years
- Ran salary benchmarking for clients using live placement data; cut offer renegotiations by a third
- Scheduled [N]+ interviews a year and kept the ATS clean; candidate NPS rose from [N] to [N]
- Wrote job ads in English and Arabic for [N]+ roles and A/B-tested titles to lift apply rates [X%]
Replace the [brackets] with your own numbers and facts. Never claim results you didn't achieve.
Skills to include
- Boolean & X-ray sourcing
- Structured interviewing
- Offer negotiation
- Employer branding
- Greenhouse
- Workday Recruiting
- LinkedIn Recruiter
- SeekOut
- Gem
- UAE labour law & visas
- Emiratisation (Nafis)
- Funnel & source-of-hire reporting
Tips for a Talent Acquisition Specialist resume
- Put the hard requirements recruiters screen for in the top third: Boolean & X-ray sourcing, Structured interviewing, Offer negotiation.
- List current credentials with the issuing body, e.g. LinkedIn Certified Professional — Recruiter, CIPD Level 5 Associate Diploma in People Management.
- Give every recent role at least one measured result — for example hires in 2025.
- Match the job title in your headline to the posting where it is honest to do so.
- Run the built-in resume checker and paste the job description into the keyword match before you download.
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