General FAQ

Hmm… we knew you would ask this question…  🙂
And this is our tragedy to be honest. We support and fight every day for companies to hire Emiratis, but we do not have a single one… Why you may ask? Because our line of work involves a huge amount of working hours, we usually work from 8 till late and it isn’t unusual that we work during the weekend as well.
So if you ever hear about a young and dynamic Emirati ready to work this hard for a private sector company with these type of working hours, please send him/her across immediately!

Of course, just give us a call on 04 305 0740 and we’ll send you a list of our latest placements we’ve made, along with our clients’ names.

We don’t. In fact it is the opposite.

We first ask them if they would be open to hear about better career opportunities. Since no job is perfect, the general approach to that is “YES” or “IT DEPENDS”.

Once we’ve established that, the next step is to understand what would be a better opportunity, in terms of salary, training, environment, management, company’s culture, job location, working hours, career change / growth…etc.

It is only if the client role can solve the candidate’s challenge that we pursue further.
This has allowed us to provide a very tailored service to our candidates instead of just trying to recruit them for the roles we have. Very quickly, we earn their trust and more and more profiles were registering with us due to our reputation.

Aha… that’s the million dollar question… In fact it is quite simple.
We mainly gather our candidates through 2 ways:

1. Pure headhunting, where we call companies within the same industries as our clients and ask to speak to people in the same job that we are recruiting for. We usually know if they are Emiratis by simply checking the names on LinkedIn.
2. Or Pure Networking. We always ask for more names in our candidate network. But we make sure we do not ask for people that are looking for word. But rather people that could say good things about them and that are in the same field for example.

With these 2 methods, we have been gathering names and CVs of people that are not actively looking for work and thus invisible to other employers and recruiters.

3 to 5 working days!
Once we speak with you to understand the role, you will usually receive our shortlist within 3 to 5 working days. The reason we are so fast at delivering qualified shortlist is that on top of only focusing on hiring Emiratis, each of our consultant specialises within 1 niche Job Sector.
This “niche within a niche” specialisation makes every consultant very efficient because they already know who they will be speaking to for your roles…
Often times, candidates are already registered on our database, remember we’ve been specialising in recruiting top Emirati Talent since 2010.

For 3 reasons:

1. Our invisible Search Methodology focuses on attracting candidates that are happy, recognized and loyal to their current employers. We know they are loyal because they are not looking elsewhere at the moment.
2. We never advertise on Job Portals or go to career fairs. These methods only produce visible candidates that have shared their CV with countless employers and recruiters. That’s why when they’re hired, they continue being approached for better offers… and they don’t stay…
3. Our candidates are not visible / known to other recruiters and employers. As a result, they simply do not receive as many career opportunities that come to compete with their compensation in your current company.

Since they are not actively looking for work, invisible candidates are happy with their current role, recognized by their employers and loyal to their current company.

We figured out that focusing on attracting happy, recognized and loyal candidates was the best path to hiring for attitude. We target candidates with these type of traits for our clients, rather than the unhappy ones that are not satisfied with their current job, often not recognized by their employers and disloyal to their employers because they’re applying elsewhere.

Iris Executives does only one thing, Recruiting Emiratis.
The problem with the majority of recruitment agencies in the country recruit both Emiratis and Non-Emiratis with the same approach… Our systems and processes have been designed to fit the Emiratisation Culture and Market Realities. For example, we do not advertise our jobs on job portals because we found that this was not the best approach to attract top Emirati Talent.
In fact, a consultant at Iris focuses on exclusively approaching “Invisible” Emiratis.

They are called “Invisible” because that’s what they are to most employers and recruiters. The business model at Iris focuses on headhunting Local Talent that are not actively looking for their next role. We have developed a series of headhunting techniques that simply opens up their mind to the possibilities of joining a new organisation.

This is only 1 example of how we offer superior results compared to recruiters that do not specialise solely on Emiratisation.

Iris Executives was created in 2010 and became the first headhunting firm to exclusively specialise in the Emiratisation Sector

Nop. We solely specialize in Emiratization and we really mean it.