• Company aims to attract the right applicants, who can support its strategic ambitions of being a leading digital lifestyle operator
• Site offers an insight into Zain's people, vision, and activities
• Zain receives over 100,000 online applications per year, with70% of company's new recruits over past year comingfrom online applicants
Kuwait - Zain Group, a leading mobile telecom innovator in eight markets across the Middle East and Africa, announces the launch of its updated and inspiring Careers website, under the banner of 'Discover your wonderful opportunity'.
The landing page of Zain Group's Career site can be found at www.careers.zain.com and features the captivating Zain Group produced video titled; "The second best job in the world", in which a series of children describe what they would like to be when they grow up. The video points to the fact that even throughoutadulthood, people ought to continue striving for their dreams as children do.
The site's underlying theme is 'Multiple Flavors of Wonderful', and it seeks to communicate the working environment that Zain is fostering as it develops into a digital lifestyle organization. A number of the company's attributes are highlighted on the site, and include vibrancy, fun, professionalism, caring, and innovation. Zain is also keen to emphasize it is one company that benefits from the diversity of its different individuals.
The front-end of the new Careers site is appealing and visually attractive, whilethe back-end is highly sophisticated, providing Zain HR personnel the latest technology to better identify the most appropriate applicants. The streamlined content allows visitors to land on the country of interest should they be browsing from within the geography, with relevant images of the other Zain operations being represented.
The new site also features more profiles of Zain employees across the Group's eight operations, allowing applicants and other interested parties to learn exactly what working for the company entails.
Commenting on the launch of the new Careers site, Scott Gegenheimer, Zain Group CEO said, "As one of the leading brands and most desired employers in the region, our goal was to create an online careers site that truly resonated with our people at Zain,as well as enhance our talent acquisition process to attract the bestapplicants to support our strategic ambitions of being a digital lifestyle operator."
Gegenheimer continued, "We have so many exciting things taking place across the Group, and we are only as good as the people we employ and develop, so we look forward to receiving more applications from talented peoplearound the world."
Zain has a long history in pioneering leading edge human resources solutions, and as early as 2005 implemented a dedicated Careers site content management system, allowing candidates to apply for vacant positions online, monitor career opportunities available within the organization, and receive response feedback within the shortest time possible.
In addition, to recruit the most appropriate talents, Zain HR personnel are very active in other recruitment activities utilizing multiple social media channels such as LinkedIn, Twitter and through reputable headhunters.Furthermore, on the new Careers site, Zain will conduct social media sessions, including live shows on Twitter and polls on LinkedIn.
Some interesting historical facts about Zain'scareers site include the fact that the average number of applicants exceeds 200per day or over 100,000 per year. It is noteworthy that the percentage of candidates hired over the past year who have come through the career website across all operationsis 70%, reconfirming the importance Zain places on its online recruitment process.
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About Zain Group
Zain is a leading telecommunications operator across the Middle East and Africa providing mobile voice and data services to over 46.3million active customers as of 30June, 2015. With a commercial presence in 8 countries, Zain operates in: Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and South Sudan. In Lebanon, the Group manages 'touch' on behalf of the government. In Morocco, Zain has a 15.5% stake in 'INWI', through a joint venture. Zain is listed on the Kuwait Stock Exchange (stock ticker: ZAIN). For more, please email info@zain.com or visit www.zain.com, www.facebook.com/zain; www.twitter.com/zain; www.youtube.com/zain; www.instagram.com/zaingroup; www.linkedin.com/company/zain
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