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    “We’ve got work to do”: Overcoming the gap in diversity recruiting

    As more candidates are open to remote roles, our 2020 State of Remote Work Report uncovered that employers believed the top benefit of hiring remote employees was having more diverse candidates. With a heightened focus on how companies are building diverse teams and inclusive workplaces, companies may be evaluating the work that still needs to be done in order for workplaces to be truly equitable, inclusive and diverse. 
    During an episode of our Talent Talent to Me podcast, Jennifer Tardy, career coach, diversity recruiting trainer, and CEO of Jennifer Tardy Consulting, joined us to discuss the gaps she found in training programs as a Head of Talent wanting to best prepare her team for their diversity recruiting initiative and how that experience led her to create her own program for recruiting teams wanting to close the existing gaps.
    Identifying the gap
    When companies begin the work of creating an inclusive workplace, unconscious bias training may be thought of as a smart place to start. While unconscious bias training is valuable and well-intentioned, it is a start not a well-rounded solution. As a Head of Talent in her former life, Tardy explained how she was disappointed to find that the trainers and program material for diversity recruiting training couldn’t speak to the depths of diversity and inclusion in hiring as she would have liked. Not only were the resources for recruiting teams insufficient, Tardy also identified a larger systemic issue within hiring that needed to be fixed for diversity recruiting to work effectively.
    Recommendations in the market primarily focused on boolean strings but didn’t discuss how companies might get in front of and attract diverse talent, how to interview for authenticity, and how to create an inclusive workplace for people of underrepresented groups, especially if the company didn’t have good representation to begin with. The hiring system today calls on recruiters to weed people out of the pipeline. In doing this, pipelines begin to look homogenous or are influenced by bias. Then interview questions end up not assessing a candidate’s skills fit or who they truly are but rather for who was able to produce a better answer. In the end recruiters may miss out on the aspects about the candidate that make them diverse in background, opinion, and experience and disproportionately weed them out. This may ultimately impact a recruiter’s ability to attract, interview, and hire diverse talent if they aren’t changing the system that weeds them out in the first place.
    Learning on common ground
    Tardy’s belief that diversity recruiting training must start on common ground and should go to the depths of why DE&I initiatives exists in the first place. Tardy’s clients pledge in her training sessions that they are not a place of guilt but an avenue for finding solutions to move forward. Typically when people don’t feel like they know enough or know what language to use when it comes to diversity, Tardy shares, they opt out of participating in discussions–recruiters don’t have the luxury of not participating so she wants to equip them to go into them confidently. By laying the foundation for DE&I and common language to use, she notes how teams are more encouraged to engage in meaningful dialogue to create an action plan for lasting change within their organizations. Beyond undergoing diversity recruiting training, she advises recruiting teams to do two things in their process:
    Interview for authenticity
    Tardy shares how current hiring is set up candidates know recruiters are looking for the best answer to interview questions. For people of underrepresented groups, learning how to best answer interview questions is even more critical to prevent getting weeded out and landing a paying job. Tardy challenges recruiters to reframe interview questions with the intention to get to know the candidate and how they can contribute to the team instead of seeing reasons to pass on their candidacy. Figure out how you can really get to know this person, through behavioral interview questions for instance, and determine if they’d be a good fit for the job based on how they think through problems.
    Audit for impact
    Companies have great intent when it comes to DE&I but can sometimes be fearful to look at what quantitative and qualitative data suggests is true. For example, Tardy mentions that by leveraging data through a self-identification campaign, data from exit interviews, or migration data (promotion, demotion, lateral moves, etc), recruiting and HR teams can see where people of color are falling out of their process and organization as a whole. Companies should dive into why people are leaving and identify who in the organization has promotional opportunities over others to see if there are disparities between groups. If companies have great intent, they should also audit for impact and outcomes to see what employees and candidates are trying to tell them about the equity and inclusion of their workplace.
    Once employers move past the guilt and understand how they can contribute to the larger conversation of diversity recruiting, they can know the weight of how to source for diverse talent, how to attract them to their companies, identify where bias is baked into their process, and how to make an effective and ethical selection decision. Recruiting practices can be more inclusive and, therefore, workforces can be more diverse and equitable.

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    Senior Dotnet Developer – Dubai | BAC Middle East

    Employment: Full Time

    One of our Multinational clients is looking for a Senior Dot Net Developer who will be responsible for developing, maintaining, and supporting dot net applications, as well as deploying and monitoring the applications on cloud infrastructure. Additionally, the senior dot net developer will work with the management and the business to develop technical briefs, specifications, requirement specifications and test plans as required.Job Location: Dubai, UAEIn this role, you will as part of the development team:• Develop, support, maintain, and enhance dotnet (framework and core) applications and technology solutions.• Work closely with the business to determine client needs and help develop requirement specifications.• Ensure development efforts meet or exceed client expectations, meeting requirements of scope, functionality, and time while adhering to defined and agreed upon standards.• Become familiar with all development tools, testing tools, methodologies, and processes.• Encourage collaborative efforts with on-premise and remote team members.• Demonstrate a strong working understanding of the industry best standards in software development and version control.• Ensure the quality and low bug rates of code released into production.• Develop and maintain internal project documentation.• Deploy the solutions developed to the cloud/server infrastructure.• Maintain high availability of the deployed solutions.• Must possess strong technical and business communication skills. Knowledge of Arabic is a plus.• Have an aptitude for continuous improvement.

    Technical skills:• Advanced knowledge of C#• Proven experience of developing ASP.NET 4.5 (or later) and dot net core web applications• Knowledge of enterprise application design and patterns• Thorough understanding of writing secure code• Advanced Entity Framework and Entity Framework Core ORM skills.• Substantial experience developing Web API endpoints for Mobile Applications• Proven front-end development experience using the React framework, preferably using Typescript.• Extensive experience in Microsoft SQL Server 2016 and above, with proven knowledge of stored procedures and advanced query designs.• Experience with continuous integration, deployments, and troubleshooting, preferably on Azure.• Experience of working with Azure functions, Azure cloud storage, virtual machines, and domain management.• Thorough knowledge of the git versioning platform.Experience:• Overall Experience 5 – 7 Years• Minimum of 5 years’ experience with .NET technologies• Minimum of 3 years’ experience of managing application deployment.Education:• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or related field.Kindly note that candidates that are immediately available to join would be given first priority, as this role needs to be filled ASAP.

    BAC Middle East – the longest established professional recruitment consultancy in the UAE. Established in 1979, we have been at the forefront of the region’s recruitment industry for 40 years and were the first firm of our type in the world to achieve ISO9001 certification: a reflection of our constant emphasis on quality and customer satisfaction.
    With our well-developed infrastructure and staff strength, we are able to assist you with recruitment needs ranging from junior professionals through to middle and senior management, whatever your industry sector.
    BAC’s proven regional experience and resources can help ensure that you recruit the best available candidates and enjoy the many advantages of a managed recruitment process. More

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    Ecommerce Technical Developer / Manager | BAC Middle East

    Employment: Full Time

    On behalf of our client we are looking for Ecommerce Technical Developer / Manager who has the ability to oversee, update and improve an Ecommerce platform.Duties Include:- Manage the e-commence platform that include product listings, managing sellers, handling customer correspondence andlogistics.- Day to day operations that include ordering, invoicing, and inventory control through managing sellers.- Manage the moderate development and design improvement of the platform using Angular and JSON- Develop proactive response and processes with customer support and enquiries.- Enhance the platform and SEO guidelines to create targeted content to improve overall traffic to the site.- Conduct and implement website changes for improving the overall customer experience.- Support in analytics to identify trending products, shops and provide competitive action strategies.- Manage seller and buyers accounts.- Execute social media marketing campaigns.- Online sales, trending products, trending hashtags reports

    You must have previous experience in managing or developing e-commence platforms that include product listings, managing sellers, handling customer correspondence and logistics and good working knowledge of JSON, Angular and SEO.Candidates must also have experience in dealing with customers via phone and email and have a good command of written and spoken English.

    BAC Middle East – the longest established professional recruitment consultancy in the UAE. Established in 1979, we have been at the forefront of the region’s recruitment industry for 40 years and were the first firm of our type in the world to achieve ISO9001 certification: a reflection of our constant emphasis on quality and customer satisfaction.
    With our well-developed infrastructure and staff strength, we are able to assist you with recruitment needs ranging from junior professionals through to middle and senior management, whatever your industry sector.
    BAC’s proven regional experience and resources can help ensure that you recruit the best available candidates and enjoy the many advantages of a managed recruitment process. More

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    CFA Instructor | A Leading Financial Organization in Qatar

    Employment: Full Time

    Job Purpose:Working as part of multi-disciplinary teams, role holders are responsible for contributing to an exceptional student experience through the delivery of teaching, research, business and enterprise engagement activity. Role holders will actively engage in research and related activities, which will inform curriculum development and delivery and raise the profile of the Department, Faculty and University nationally and internationally.Key Responsibilities:• The role holder will contribute to delivering the Faculty’s strategic priorities, which include the integration of excellent teaching, high quality research, emerging business and regional engagement development activities within an academic context.• The role holder will be responsible for the development, organisation and delivery of curriculum content, within undergraduate programmes of the department.• The Programme leader is responsible for the overall experience of the students on the programme, together with the management and organisation, quality assurance and continuous improvement of the programme they lead.• Programme leader is ultimately responsible for academic leadership, management and assessment, for the programme they have been designated to lead on.In particular, the role holder will be required to contribute to the Faculty as outlined below:Learning and Teaching• Expected teaching load is 3-4 modules at each Fall and Spring semesters• Responsible for the development of the programme, delivering content and activities which reflect discipline and university best practice• Delivery of the programme including coordination of module activity to support a positive learning experience• To contribute to research informed learning, and the development of innovative methods of teaching, learning and assessment.• To liaise closely with teaching, technical and administrative staff to ensure quality teaching support• Be available to students and programme representatives, meeting the latter on a regular basis – at least twice per semester and ensure all students are informed of the response to issues raised and actions taken.Research, Innovation and Enterprise activities• To undertake research and scholarly activities contributing to the Faculty’s research profile and the University’s vision identified in the Corporate Strategy 2013-2017. This may include participation in institutional and collaborative research and involvement with industry stakeholders, other institutions, external organisations and other university partners.• To supervise students’ scholarship and research activities.• To undertake consultancy as agreed and directed by the Associate Dean for Research and Innovation• To undertake business development activities as agreed and directed by the Associate Dean for Business and Engagement.Academic Management and Administration• To deliver programme and module administration• To undertake tasks associated with student recruitment, induction and programme planning; involvement in assessment boards, course development teams etc.• To attend Faculty, Subject, programme and University wide meetings and committees as appropriate.• To represent the Faculty effectively in both the national and international context.General and Academic development• To contribute to the implementation of the Faculty’s Academic Plan.This may include:• Planning and development of postgraduate and / or undergraduate provision.• Programme / module evaluation and revision.• Engagement with regional and international initiatives and collaborative ventures.• To undertake continuous professional development and participate in staff appraisal, staff development and other post-entry training based on an assessment of individual and institutional needs.• To undertake any other duties in the Faculty as shall be reasonably requested.

    Specific Knowledge, Skills, Abilities & Education• Demonstrable expert knowledge of a relevant subject area/s.• Experience in the design, development and delivery of successful learning and teaching programmes and related learning interventions.• Experience of programme management on a range of academic, research and professional programmes.• Experience of successful contribution to research both individually and through the supervision of research programmes in collaboration with others.• Experience of fostering collaborative links, for example with international partners, industry, commerce and/or the public sector.• Professional practice experience• Prior experience in British University System• Ability to teach effectively on a range of academic and professional programmes using a variety of approaches to student learning.• Ability to produce academic outputs consistent with criteria for selection for a future Research Excellence Framework (REF) submission.• Ability to work closely with individuals and organisations internally and externally to build collaborative links for the benefit of the University as a whole.• Ability to plan and organise the successful delivery of all aspects of programme management.• Able to foster a culture of collegiality, demonstrating the ability to influence and involve others.• Ability to operate effectively in teams in a variety of roles.• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, oral and written.• Evidence of Continuous Professional Development and the ability to collaborate with others in teaching, research and consultancy.• Doctorate qualification in a relevant subject discipline (or exceptionally, doctoral equivalent through demonstration of academic standing in the field.)• Post graduate and professional qualifications in a discipline relevant to the faculty.• Higher Education Academy Fellowship• Evidence of effective team leadership in an academic or industrial environment• Professional qualified or at the finalist stage: a) CFA, b) CPA, c) CFP and e) CGA Canada is preferable.

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    Operations Manager | National Bank of Pakistan (NBP)

    Employment: Full Time

    • Overall Management of Branch affairs including development of Business, achievement of targets / KPIs through marketing and promotion of Banking Products.• Adherence to banks policies and procedures while ensuring security of day to day operations.• To ensure smooth and error free services to customers and timely attendance of their complaints and queries.• Ensure inter-branch transactions are executed correctly and timely.• Supervise the Balancing / Reconciliation of NOSTRO / VOSTRO accounts,• To review reports and liaise with controlling office regarding branch affairs.• To ensure the performance of branch meets the allocated targets.• Attend meetings as and when called by to ensure smooth operations of the Branch as per requirements set by the local management.• Review and provide comments on any observations relevant to Branch Operations cited by the auditors in their reports.• Ensure confidentiality and transparency in maintaining customer bank accounts.• Comply fully with regulators policy & procedures.• To review trade transactions and to ensure its quality, accuracy and data integrity.• To ensure smooth TAT in trade transactions.• To maintain bank’s internal control standards, including timely implementation of internal and external audit points together with any issues raised by external regulators.• To monitor and ensure prompt rectification of audit related objections.• To ensure branch staff workers as a cohesive motivated team.• To establish a culture and environment that attracts, retains and motivates the highest caliber of skilled professionals.• Any other duty assigned by the management.

    • To ensure and maintain smooth Operations of the Branch• Relevant Experience / Minimum Bachelor Degree Holder• Review trade transactions and to ensure its quality, accuracy and data integrity.• Ensure smooth TAT in trade transactions.

    National Bank of Pakistan is largest state owned bank operating in Pakistan. It has redefined its role and has moved from a public sector organization into a modern commercial bank. The Bank’s services are available to individuals, corporate entities and government. While it continues to act as trustee of public funds and as the agent to the State Bank of Pakistan (in places where SBP does not have presence).
    National Bank of Pakistan has built an extensive branch network with over 1313 branches in Pakistan. It has agency arrangements with more than 3000 correspondent banks worldwide. Its subsidiaries are Taurus Securities Ltd, NBP Exchange Company Ltd, NBP Capital Ltd, NBP Modaraba Management Company Ltd, and CJSC Bank, Almaty, Kazakhstan. It has recently opened a subsidiary in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.
    The bank has global presence having 23 overseas branches in 11 countries. The bank also has a representative office in China and Canada. More

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    Compliance Officer | National Bank of Pakistan (NBP)

    Employment: Full Time

    Assist the Compliance Manager in achieving effective management of the compliance risks faced by the Branch as well as applies the compliance program.Assist the Compliance Manager for the Identification, measurement, assessment, and follow-up of compliance risks.Assist the Compliance Manager to pre an annual compliance plan for managing compliance based on identification, measurement and monitoring of risksAssist the Compliance Manager to organize the education and awareness on compliance issues and prepare an educating and training program on compliance for the staffRegularly audit the Branch’s procedures, practices, and documents to identify possible weaknesses or risk.Assist the Compliance Manager to create, maintain, and update the compliance risk register (log).Create, maintain, and update a data base for all applicable regulations, laws, rules, and circulars and it should be continuously updated.Assist the Compliance Manager to conduct investigations of potential breaches of the compliance policy and share the results with the Branch’s Management and Compliance GroupAssist the Compliance Manager to monitor, review, and submit regulatory ad-hoc requestsAssist the compliance manager on the responsibility of communications with both internal teams and regulators to identify guidance and opportunities from a risk standpoint.Review of reports by other departments before the submission to the regulatorsProvide support to the business units on regulations and rules to prevent violating any regulations.Assist the Compliance Manager to create, maintain, and update the compliance incidents log.Coordination and follow up on the implementation of action plan with the relevant departments.Prepare the Branch Compliance Committee Meeting agendas and document its minutes of MeetingLiaising with external parties including regulatory authorities and other interested parties as required.Ongoing review on the Branch’s customers documents to ensure compliance on the accounts opening rules.Assist the Compliance Manager to facilitate Regulatory Inspections, manage Regulatory Penalties, compliance with regulatory inspection reports.

    Reporting to the Compliance ManagerTo ensure effective implementation of policies, plans, and procedures of the compliance department and manage, coordinate, and monitor the day to day compliance program. Maintain the organization’s obligations as its related to the supervision and reporting of non-compliance.

    National Bank of Pakistan is largest state owned bank operating in Pakistan. It has redefined its role and has moved from a public sector organization into a modern commercial bank. The Bank’s services are available to individuals, corporate entities and government. While it continues to act as trustee of public funds and as the agent to the State Bank of Pakistan (in places where SBP does not have presence).
    National Bank of Pakistan has built an extensive branch network with over 1313 branches in Pakistan. It has agency arrangements with more than 3000 correspondent banks worldwide. Its subsidiaries are Taurus Securities Ltd, NBP Exchange Company Ltd, NBP Capital Ltd, NBP Modaraba Management Company Ltd, and CJSC Bank, Almaty, Kazakhstan. It has recently opened a subsidiary in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.
    The bank has global presence having 23 overseas branches in 11 countries. The bank also has a representative office in China and Canada. More

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    Supervisor of Self – Supervisory Unit | National Bank of Pakistan (NBP)

    Employment: Full Time

    • Review and authorized of SAMA’s combat terrorist financing requests & inquiries through Tanfeeth and SAMANet Systems.• Ensure of performing screening against sanction lists for names provided in the inquiries/requests are conducted in proper and timely manner.• Review and authorization of freezing and blocking process for legal persons and natural persons as per SUU’s requests that generated from Tanfeeth and SAMANet systems.• Request, following-up, and obtainment of SSU requests required documents from relevant departments.• Preparation and submission of SSU reports and ensure of compliance with the SAMA’s instructions and timeframe.• Development the skills of SSU’s team by providing training, coaching & guidance.• Development, review, and update on an ongoing basis the SUU’s policies, procedures, and controls.• Representation of NBP Riyadh at SAMA Self-Supervision committee meetings and make sure to comply with committee resolutions• Development, maintenance, and update electronic database for all SSU requests and enquiries raised by SAMA.• Preparation and submission of weekly report to the Compliance Manager in regard to SSU’s activities, performance, and challenges.• Follow up with United Nation resolutions and local regulations in regard to counter financing terrorism and update the internal policies and procedures accordingly.• Development of business continuity plan for the SSU as per the Branch BCM framework and conduct ongoing tests to ensure its effectiveness and notify SAMA with the plan and its test results.

    • Reporting to the Compliance Manager• Relevant Experience / Minimum Bachelor Degree Holder• Compliance with the SAMA requirements on combating terrorism financing and supervision of the performance on tasks of Self supervisory Unit.

    National Bank of Pakistan is largest state owned bank operating in Pakistan. It has redefined its role and has moved from a public sector organization into a modern commercial bank. The Bank’s services are available to individuals, corporate entities and government. While it continues to act as trustee of public funds and as the agent to the State Bank of Pakistan (in places where SBP does not have presence).
    National Bank of Pakistan has built an extensive branch network with over 1313 branches in Pakistan. It has agency arrangements with more than 3000 correspondent banks worldwide. Its subsidiaries are Taurus Securities Ltd, NBP Exchange Company Ltd, NBP Capital Ltd, NBP Modaraba Management Company Ltd, and CJSC Bank, Almaty, Kazakhstan. It has recently opened a subsidiary in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.
    The bank has global presence having 23 overseas branches in 11 countries. The bank also has a representative office in China and Canada. More

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    AML Supervisor | National Bank of Pakistan (NBP)

    Employment: Full Time

    – Assisting with the development, implementation, and maintenance of an anti-money laundering program.- Ensuring compliance with current AML regulations, and other relevant laws.- Developing and maintaining a risk assessment framework for products and services, clients and customers, and other issues relating to money laundering.- Monitor and control activities that are considered higher risks.- Completing reviews of customer due diligence documentation and formation relating to the clients and their beneficial owners.- Conduct analysis of customer transactions in order to asses and determine if the transactions seem plausible or if there is reasonable suspicion that the transaction involves money laundering.- Identification of suspicious or unusual transactions, non-compliant activity or increased AML risk.- Receiving suspicious transactions relating to money laundering and terrorist finance from internal departments of the Branch, and taking necessary actions for collection of information about it, analysis of the data collected, and making necessary decision for taking appropriate action, which should be documented in writing.- Reporting suspicious transactions to the FIU, when suspicions have been determined, in accordance with established requirements, supported by a detailed technical report on the suspected case.- Ensuring that staff, comply with the instructions and procedures pertaining to accounts monitoring; and ensuring that employees understand the importance of such procedures and instructions as well as the importance of the adopted procedures for suspicious activities and reporting requirements.- Preparation and submission of periodic reports regarding the activities conducted by AML Officer as well as the general status of the Branch and its various departments.- Responding to all SAMA’s circulars and requests relating to customer accounts statements and blocking, and preparation of the required information in the proper form and timeframe.- Maintaining a database comprising all data relating to money laundering and terrorist financing matters in the Branch, such as the suspicious cases reported, blocked accounts, etc. and updating of all the old cases in the database.- Participation in the Financial Crimes and Money Laundering Committee.- Participation in the process of educating and training all the Branch’s staff categories and all customers segments.- Prepare the AML questionnaire as internal control when entering a new relationship with a financial intuition- (Carrying out the task of reporting sanctioned clients as per the lists of the Security Council Committees and the committee of (2253/1989/1267/1988), and Security Council Resolution No. 1373 to SAMA.- Carrying out the task of reporting sanctioned clients as per the lists of the Security Council Committees and the committee of (2253/1989/1267/1988), and Security Council Resolution No. 1373 to SAMA.

    – Reporting to the Compliance Manager- To develop and ensure effective implementation of policies, plans, and procedures to combat money laundering and manage, coordinate, and monitor the day to day anti-money laundering compliance programs.- Maintain the organization’s obligations as its related to the supervision and reporting of money laundering activities.

    National Bank of Pakistan is largest state owned bank operating in Pakistan. It has redefined its role and has moved from a public sector organization into a modern commercial bank. The Bank’s services are available to individuals, corporate entities and government. While it continues to act as trustee of public funds and as the agent to the State Bank of Pakistan (in places where SBP does not have presence).
    National Bank of Pakistan has built an extensive branch network with over 1313 branches in Pakistan. It has agency arrangements with more than 3000 correspondent banks worldwide. Its subsidiaries are Taurus Securities Ltd, NBP Exchange Company Ltd, NBP Capital Ltd, NBP Modaraba Management Company Ltd, and CJSC Bank, Almaty, Kazakhstan. It has recently opened a subsidiary in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.
    The bank has global presence having 23 overseas branches in 11 countries. The bank also has a representative office in China and Canada. More