Kickstarting Your Talent Acquisition Efforts in the New Digital Era

August 30, 2022 (SGT) | Online

Haikal M Z Akmar

Chief Human Resources Officer UOA Group

Haikal is the Chief Human Resources Officer , UOA Group, a leading award winning property development and investment company headquartered in Malaysia. His experience encompasses public, privately-held, and foreign-owned businesses in hospitality, financial investment, property development and retails. With over 16 years of experience, Haikal’s areas of expertise include culture building, talent acquisition & performance management, learning & development and more. Haikal has been driving HR transformation and organizations performance culture by redefining skills and competencies requirements, reengineering jobs and leadership capabilities. He is known for strategic leadership in influencing and managing complex & multigenerational stakeholders in building high-performing teams and culture.

30th August 2022

9:00 AM Strategies and tools to streamline HR vertical hiring time

In a diversified workforce post-pandemic, the process of vertical recruitment becomes a challenge in terms of sourcing the right talent. Haikal will share his case study on how he addresses UOA’s pain points in terms of hiring as well as the various framework, tools and resources they have used to streamline hiring time with strategies that have been proven to work with focus on: 

  • Key lessons to overcome mistakes and failures in vertical recruitment 
  • What are the various tools and resources to help with recruiting in diversified workforce 
  • Strategies in culture change, mindset, retraining hiring managers, communications and setting up expectation in recruiting the perfect candidate 
  • Case study of UOA’s vertical hiring process – how they have done it, what went wrong, how they fixed it and how it works again