Abunayyan Holding, a family-owned Saudi conglomerate, has launched an online portal to attract top talent while also reducing recruitment time by up to 50 per cent.

The first of its kind in Saudi Arabia, the Mostaqbaly online portal was developed in response to the challenges that the company faced when recruiting qualified Saudi talent to fill vacancies across its strategic business units (SBUs) throughout the Kingdom, a company statement said.

Mostaqbaly provides an active online professional engagement platform and a dedicated career vacancies service.

The professional online recruitment system has helped the talent management team at Abunayyan Holding manage the large volume 25,000+ of resumes that are received, while at the same time providing detailed company information and a platform for candidates to keep in touch with the company.

Saeed Al Mabrouk, head of Strategic HR Development from Abunayyan Holding said:  "Like many businesses we are fighting a war for talent.  Attracting and retaining people with the right specialist skills and experience is an ongoing battle.”

“By launching Mostaqbaly we have created a platform where we can track and trace the careers of people with the qualities we require and continue a dialogue until such time we have an appropriate vacancy.

"By taking our recruitment online through our own portal we have developed a secure space to capture, reach out and engage with qualified candidates who can support our continuing drive for growth in the sectors in which we operate,” he added.

To complement this strategy, Abunayyan Holding also collaborated with LinkedIn to further enhance Mostaqbaly's reach.  Through the popular professional social networking platform, Abunayyan Holding's profile page gained a massive increase in followers from 300 to 8,000 followers.

"The result of these two initiatives means that we now have a pool of top quality candidates for vacancies and can search for appropriate skills and experience as new opportunities arise.  We've already had over 10,000 views on our job pages, while increasing our brand awareness by 50 percent as we continue on our journey of becoming a top ranked employer of choice," said Feras Al Sadi, head of Strategic Marketing and Corporate Communication.

“Currently, Abunayyan Holding is aiming to fill 38 vacancies across its diverse Strategic Business Units (SBUs) which operate in the power, water, oil and gas sectors,” Al Sadi added. – TradeArabia News Service