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skill-link.com live - one year of success
Time flies, it has been exactly a year - this week - when the skill-link.com site went live for job seekers. This is the 48th issue of Interest Zone, the weekly online magazine of skill-link.com (it is not 52 due to double issues during long holidays).
The year has been a succes sful and rewarding one; the growing number of job seekers listing with skill-link.com represents a constant vote of confidence, we currently receive a little over 1,000 new resume every month. The job seekers demographics are interesting,
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skill-link.com's professional approach to recruitment starting from the screening of resumes by dedicated Career Analysts (to ensure they are complete and relevant), conducting personal interviews with job seekers before they are presented to potential employers by Candidate Relations Officers (to verify objectivity of information and personal attributes) and finally assigning Recruitment Specialists to assist companies in fulfilling their recruitment needs have all rendered skill-link.com very unique in online recruitment. No other internet recruitment company follows this value added approach around the world. This has enabled us to attract the best employers,
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The combination of online magazine and attractive employment opportunities has generated enviable traffic to skill-link.com,
have a look.
skill-link.com has been very active in promoting its services and helping professionals become better prepared for the employment market; the following are some of our activities throughout the year:
skill-link.com welcoming the new students at the American University in Cairo
(September 2000).
A press conference was held by skill-link.com to present its progress and the various features and services it provides to both employers and job seekers (Ramses Hilton - November 2000).
Board members: Khaled Bichara, Sherif Samy and Alaa El Ghadban.
skill-link.com Managing Director Alaa El Ghadban giving a speach about internet recruitment at the Mubarak Public Library (December 2000).
skill-link.com had a significant presence in the Cairo Telecomp 2000 exhibition (January 2001).
H.E. Ahmed Nazif Minister of Telecom & Informationtalking to skill-link.com's Hisham Hamdy.
skill-link.com participated in the first employment fair to be held at the Gezira Club (January 2000).
skill-link.com cooperates with the Future Generation Foundation to help young Egyptian university graduates enhance their employability. In this photo Mr. Gamal Mubarak visits the skill-link.com stand in one of the Foundation's graduation events (February 2001).
skill-link.com's Chairman Sherif Samy was invited by Cairo University to give a lecture to the students of the Faculty of Economics and Political Science. The lecture addressed how to best approach the job market (April 2001).
skill-link.com celebrated the company's first anniversary by holding a reception at the Cairo Capital Club (May 2001).
skill-link.com participated in the UAE employment fair held at Al Ain city (May 2001); in the photo skill-link.com UAE Country Manager Ms. Heba DeMaurissens is briefing H.E. Obaid Al Tayer Minister of Labor and Social Affairs.
skill-link.com in cooperation with the Rotaract Guezira Club issued a career and professional guide "Your Passport To Professionalism" the first of its kind in Egypt (June 2001).
In addition to the above activities, skill-link.com has concluded cooperation agreements with key parties in the skill development and human resources systems fields.
An agreement with League Technology, the IT training company.
And an agreement with HITS the HR IT solutions providers.
Of course a major initiative undertaken by skill-link.com was to expand geographically, in that first year the company had offices in Dubai and Kuwait.