Ayse Kesmenoglu

To act as the ‘first point of contact’ for both individuals and managers requiring HR advice, support and guidance on HR people issues - Manage the HR process for the 9 regional offices - Recruitment and on-boarding activities - Complete pre-employment checks - Oversee the starters and leavers process for allocated offices - Performance management - Support the EMEA HR Business Partner with projects such as change management - Regional annual leave consolidation process at year end - Assist on budge

• Scheduling, re-scheduling and canceling of Interviews in Europe and the Middle East • Keep and administer calendars for Talent Acquisition Consultants and Hiring Managers • Job Postings and sourcing of candidates in diverse job portals • Administer and regularly update candidate’s database • Telephone Interviews • Brief candidates for interviews with Hiring Managers e.g. providing them with necessary information for the interviews, explaining them their exercises and giving them tips for improvement

• Telephone and personal interviews of candidates, especially in a large-scale project for recruiting 100 new employees for a new branch of an automobile bank • Point of contact for clients and processing their recruitment requests • Identification and direct communication of potential candidates • Briefing candidates for Interviews at our clients • Update and administer consultants’ agendas • Online Job Posting and sourcing • HR Administration of temporary employees e.g. administering weekly time sh

• Pre- and post processing as well as executions of telephone and personal interviews • Field works such as visiting of art exhibitions, events, conferences etc. • Writing of newspaper articles for the cultural and international departments • Researching • Translations from German into English • Participation in Team meetings and making proposals for potential topics for articles • Administrative Assistance for the cultural department

• Minutes taking for the International News Desk • Translations from German, French or Dutch into English for the International News Desk and the Cultural Department • Researching in the international press • Posting news on the CNN-Türk website • Administrative and operative assistance for daily documentations

International and Comparative HRM; HRM Strategies and Policies; Organizational Change and Behaviour; Comparative Employment Relations

European Law; Economics; Comparative Politics