Sharaf Retail to hire over 1500 people with innovative new career website

DUBAI, UAE - June 11, 2013 - PRLog -- Sharaf Retail, the company behind leading retail and hospitality brands such as Sharaf DG, Forever 21, Cotton On, Sanrio, Adventure HQ, Yellow Hat, YooMoo and Hello Kitty Spa has just launched a whole new career website www.tareeki.com - the first of its kind in the region.

In the GCC, analysts expect the retail industry to achieve a compoud annual growth rate of 8.3% until 2015. With this growth, comes a competitive environment for hiring the best talent*.

Yasser Sharaf, MD of Sharaf Retail, explains, “With the addition of new brands to our portfolio, new store openings in existing markets and geographical expansion, we anticipate hiring approximately 1500 employees in the next 18 months - Tareeki.com plays a central role in it.”

Tareeki, which means ‘My path’ or ‘My journey’ in Arabic, offers candidates a unique interactive experience of the career path they can follow in each of Sharaf’s retail brands.

Robert St-Jacques, Head of HR at Sharaf Retail, adds, “We didn’t want a one size fits all career website. We have diverse businesses with different recruitment messages for each one. The new career portal is perfectly aligned with them, no design detail is accidental. It’s all very targeted.”

Job seekers can search through vacancies, apply, track their application, subscribe to email alerts for future opportunities, and so much more.

Mohammed Owais, CTO of Cazar, the recruitment marketing and technology solutions provider for Sharaf Retail explains, “The same cutting-edge web technology processes tens of millions of candidates each year for hundreds of our blue chip clients such as Sharaf Retail across the Middle East & Asia. It’s playful and interactive but has serious business objectives.”

For more information on job opportunities for any of the brands at Sharaf Retail, please visit the career site at www.tareeki.com.