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In this episode of the Hire Arabia Podcast, host Ines Mokrani is joined by Leyla Hassan, HR Director in Dubai, to explore the rise of women in leadership across the Middle East.
Together, they discuss:
🌍 Government initiatives like Saudi Vision 2030 & UAE’s gender balance strategy
🚀 Barriers women still face in leadership roles
💡 Success stories that prove inclusion drives performance
✔️ Practical steps companies can take to empower female leaders
🎧 Tune in if you’re an HR professional, a business leader, or simply curious about how women are reshaping the business landscape in the Arab world.
👉 Don’t forget to subscribe for more insights on recruitment, leadership, and opportunities in the Middle East!
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The Hire Arabia Podcast, hosted by Ines Mokrani, explores the fast-moving world of recruitment, talent acquisition, and business expansion in the Middle East. Each episode dives into the realities of hiring across the region – from cultural awareness and market-specific talent pools to strategic onboarding and employer branding.
🎙️ Together with co-host Omar and other expert guests, we discuss:
Why companies succeed (or struggle) when hiring in the Gulf region
Practical recruitment strategies for global organizations
Stories from the field – the good, the bad, and the unexpected
Insights for professionals curious about career opportunities in the Arab world
Whether you’re a company expanding into the Middle East, a recruiter navigating cross-border hiring, or a professional looking to grow in one of the world’s most dynamic regions, this podcast is your guide to building bridges between talent and opportunity.
👉 Subscribe now to stay ahead in Middle Eastern recruitment and business trends.
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In today’s episode of the #HireArabia Podcast, host Ines Mokrani is joined by guest Omar to break down the top 3 #RecruitmentSuccess factors in the #MiddleEast:
🌍 #CulturalAwareness – why understanding values, traditions, and workplace expectations is the foundation for successful hiring.
👥 Market-specific #TalentPools – how to identify and access the right candidates across industries in the Gulf region.
🚀 Strategic # Onboarding–turning new hires into long-term success stories by aligning them with company culture and goals.
Along the way, we share stories from the field – the good, the bad, and the unexpected – that highlight the real challenges and opportunities when hiring in the region.
🎧 Tune in if you’re:
👉 Subscribe to the #HireArabia Podcast for insights, strategies, and stories that connect #Talent with #Opportunity in one of the world’s most dynamic regions.
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Middle East Talent & Leadership Podcast
Hosted by Ines Mokrani
The Middle East Talent & Leadership Podcast explores leadership, executive careers, talent, business, and the realities of today's workplace across the Middle East and beyond.
Hosted by Ines Mokrani, Founder & CEO of MatchMaker No.1, the podcast looks beyond headlines, corporate narratives, and comfortable assumptions to understand what is actually happening inside organizations, careers, and markets.
From leadership decisions and executive hiring to career strategy, transformation, AI, and changing labor markets, each episode examines the forces shaping how organizations operate — and how leaders and professionals need to respond.
Some episodes challenge conventional leadership thinking. Others examine what is happening in the market and ask whether the prevailing narrative actually matches the evidence.
Because business reality is rarely as simple as the headline.
The podcast explores four core perspectives:
Leadership Reality
How leaders make decisions, build influence, navigate complexity and create the conditions for performance.
Career Reality
What really shapes executive careers, professional value, visibility, opportunity and progression.
Talent & Hiring
How organizations identify capability, make hiring decisions and build the leadership and talent they actually need.
Market Reality
What economic, technological and regional developments mean for businesses, leaders, hiring and careers — with a particular focus on the GCC within a global context.
Topics include executive leadership, decision-making, Executive Search, global talent strategy, organizational psychology, executive careers, AI and the future of work, transformation, international expansion, and the changing business landscape across the GCC and beyond.
For CEOs, executives, managers and ambitious professionals who prefer clarity over corporate clichés and evidence over comfortable narratives.
No corporate myths. No manufactured optimism. No provocation for the sake of attention.
Just clear perspectives on how leadership, careers, talent and business really work.
New episodes every week.