Alhassan

Client: Alhassan was regional manager for Bahrain and the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia for an Indian multinational hospitality company.

Industry: Hospitality

Function: Management, Regional Operations

Challenge: Alhassan was looking to advance his career beyond regional management into a more strategic role within the hospitality industry.

Process: TCD helped Alhassan identify his transferable skills and position himself for senior management opportunities.

Landing: Alhassan was Regional Manager Bahrain and the Eastern Province of
SaudiArabia for a multinational hospitality company.

Hit hard by the pandemic, the company had to restructure and Alhassan yielded to growing pressure at the company to leave.

“I understood the situation. Things were tough in pandemic and no one was hiring at the senior level. They were cutting their losses,” said Alhassan. “I figured they would begin hiring again in 2021, though, so in January I started pushing hard in my job search.”

Alhassan’s challenges weren’t over, though. January yielded no interviews, nor did February. But about the same time, Alhassan came across The Career Doctor (TCD) and decided to take a leap of faith and enlist their help.

“I started in mid-February with the Clarity Program. The purpose of Clarity is to make sure you know what you want in your career. It is also really valuable for flipping your mindset from negative to optimistic before you start with the career navigation phase,” said Alhassan.

„Clarity really helped me to be forward-thinking.”

When Alhassan began the career navigation phase of the TCD Program, his coach, gave him a thorough training on the best practices of job hunting.

“I learned many new methods of hunting and nailing down a job that were different from what I had been doing. I learned a lot about how to use social capital in the job search, what to tell recruiters and what not to tell them, and how to use second- and third-level contacts on LinkedIn. Isabelita gave me so much knowledge about the job-hunting process that I hadn’t known before hiring TCD.”

The opportunity that most excited Alhassan, however, was one in the government sector that Alhassan had been nurturing for over a year. In March 2020, a friend and former colleague had broached Alhassan about his interest in doing work for Vision2030, a major strategic framework of the Saudi government to diversify its economy and develop investment projects in Saudi Arabia.

“Two weeks later I got a call from HR for a preliminary interview. More interviews followed and they collected my salary history and other documents. Finally, I received a verbal offer.”

“I feel like working on Vision 2030 is the right thing for me to do right now. And if I want to change jobs in the future, I now have the right tools to hunt for the right job. If you take the TCD Program very seriously, you acquire the know-how to do a job hunt very effectively on your own later. I tell people it’s a little like college – but for C-level jobs!”

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