Yasar Ahmad is the Global VP of People at HelloFresh Group, a $10B global consumer food solutions company with more than 25,000 employees operating in 17 countries. He leads an HR team with over 200 members globally.

Interview with HR Vision about the Future of HR and People

Artificial intelligence (AI) is cited as representing both the biggest challenge and opportunity in recruitment, so it comes as no surprise that it is high on the agenda for all of this year’s 11.

In this dynamic landscape, the ability to effectively manage talent across different regions while aligning skills with organisational goals has become a critical mandate for departments worldwide.

By enabling managers and employees to self-serve on skills and talent, HR professionals can adopt a broader strategic focus, leveraging advanced analytics to inform executive decisions and ensure organisational resilience in terms of future skills and talent needed.

As the role of HR has transformed into that of a strategic partner, HR professionals have become critical drivers of innovation in their organizations.

Skills-based is one of those HR buzzwords that everybody agrees is important, but no one seems exactly sure what it means or how they can achieve it in practice. Let’s fix that. Here's my Interview with HR Grapevine.

Join Yasar Ahmad in this comprehensive course. Helping leaders plan, manage and deliver a end to end talent transformation project.

My observations on ChatGPT / Generative AI is that the most advanced users in our industry have been individual contributors operating on their own initiative in to get more efficiency in their personal work. This has been amazing to see, but something is clearly missing -

In a conversation moderated by Recruiting Brainfood’s Hung Lee, we discuss the role AI can play in enabling high quality, personalized candidate experiences. Yasar Ahmad (Global VP of Talent, Mobility & Rewards, HelloFresh), Kevin Grossman (President, Talent Board), and Siadhal Magos (Co-founder & CEO, Metaview) discuss how forward-thinking recruiting teams can leverage AI to:

Yasar is currently the Global Vice President of Talent, Mobility, and Rewards at HelloFresh. Previously, Global Head of Talent Acquisition at Zalando focussed on Technology Hiring, and prior to that the Director and Head of Strategic Hiring at Wipro and Wipro Digital.

Yasar Ahmad, Global VP Talent, Mobility and Rewards at HelloFresh, on the business need for workplace happiness and lesser-appreciated, high-value strategies for a positive work environment

Yasar was listed as TATech's 100 Most Influential Talent Leader

Your job today will eventually evolve, recruiters, whether by choice or by force. At some point, you will realize the efforts you make are superseded by actions far less time-consuming.

When we think of ‘diversity hiring’, we often think of the result: new diverse talents joining our organization. But if we wind up a bit, how do we get there?

Yasar Ahmad is the Vice President – Talent at HelloFresh Global, one of the world’s leading meal kit company founded in Berlin. » Read more about: Balancing the Grind with Yasar Ahmad, Vice President – Talent at HelloFresh Global »

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McKinsey built a business on trust-building, with multiple components and then has gone on to sell this very model to its clients. The framework deconstructed addresses the stentorian cry for help that people functions require to become customer-centric.

Innovation is something that every organization strives for, across the board. Finding new and inventive ways to operate that will optimize processes and bolster growth is mission critical. And this is no less true for those in the talent acquisition sphere.

In this episode, Marian M.P. Temelkov, Global CEO at Dynamis Group, welcomes to the podcast Yasar Ahmad and Thomas Klein from HelloFresh!

In this panel discussion with four industry experts and enterprise talent leaders, we bridge the gap between technology and vision. How do talent leaders today approach the question of AI in transformation? How do they create a vision that can bring along the rest of the business in order to effect the kind of change that will help them attract and engage the best talent?

Hiring is intensely competitive – yet many companies don’t realize that their ability to win is the result of a whole-company hiring mindset and leaders who make hiring their top priority. In this session, you’ll hear how the best companies have become more diverse and competitive by transforming how they think about hiring. You’ll walk away with great advice from successful leaders who turned their business partners into Talent Makers.

Luke Eaton spoke with their Global VP of Talent Yasar Ahmad and Global Head of TA Carolina Veiga to learn more about how they doubled productivity with what they’ve called TA 4.0.

During this podcast episode, Ben sits down with Yasar and Owen to discuss their new Talent Acquisition function - TA 4.0, and what this means for the business.

We often talk about evolution in talent acquisition. That has always seemed appropriate in an area where the pace of change has been relatively slow compared to other areas of the corporation. However, what we are seeing now is much more like a revolution as talent shortages, changing business priorities, and rapid technological advancement send shock waves through the industry.

In this weeks episode of TH4SU, Theo gets to chat with Yasar Amhad on FreshRecruitment 4.0.


We discuss:

*Yasar's new role at HelloFresh - Sustainable, Global, Food

*Moving beyond reactive recruitment to recruitment 4.0

*TA Strategy - Define a vision, create a mission statement and frame your principles

*Data driven decisions from the outset

*DE&I creating and inclusive team

*Hiring recruiters based on unique skills and building their role around them in line with new 4.0 model

*What's next...

Every company strives for innovation. Finding new and inventive ways to operate that will optimize processes and bolster growth is mission critical, across the board. But Talent Acquisition is something that often gets stuck in the mud. Especially in times when requisition volumes are high, it’s difficult to cast your thinking out and envision what the future of TA could be.

Hiring isn’t just the job of TA – it’s a company-wide imperative. Join Yasar Ahmad (HelloFresh) and Annabel Nichols (Avanade) on stage for an in-depth look at how embedding a culture of hiring into the DNA of your organisation can lead to even better hiring results.

HelloFresh went from 11 to 25 thousand employees in the past twelve months. So what’s their magic ingredient? We spoke to Yasar Ahmad, HelloFresh’s Vice President Talent at RecFest.

#Recfest2022 - Our top 10 TA Superstars

HelloFresh went from 11 to 25 thousand employees in the past twelve months. So what’s their secret ingredient? We spoke to Yasar Ahmad, HelloFresh’s Vice President Talent at RecFest | The Recruitment Events Co..

To get the best people, they need the best talent team, and I was fortunate to speak with Yasar Ahmad, Global VP of Talent, and Rafael Grana, Team Lead Talent Acquisition, around the following their innovative ways to attract talent.

Scaleup leaders in sales, finance and talent usually work closely with legal every day - so how can legal teams enable their key internal clients to work more effectively? Find out in our interviews with Kaoru Fujita, director of sales at Omnipresent; Christoph Nicola, CFO at Finiata; and Yasar Ahmad, global VP of talent at HelloFresh.

It’s never been more challenging, or important,
 to find, recruit, and retain the best talent. In this whitepaper, industry experts Mervyn Dinnen and Matt Alder combine insights from leading employers and Metaview data to provide a blueprint for accelerating the speed and quality of hiring in today’s talent markets.

Which skills will be in demand after Covid-19 and beyond? Here, a number of recruiters and HR leaders share their tips.

Speaking of the glass ceiling, Yasar began, “We live in a human-shaped world. Everything is designed around our experiences. So can your career growth. By focusing on building sponsors for yourself. By focusing on innovating. By going above and beyond.”

It’s no secret that the tech industry faces a diversity problem with slow improvement over the years. A study by Girls Who Code, a nonprofit that educates and supports girls studying computer science revealed that many young women are put off by their first encounters with tech companies due to gender-biased interview questions, inappropriate remarks, or observing a lack of diversity during the interview process.

As we enter 2019, it is only fitting that we all start to look forward – and take a look at what the next year is going to bring.

Adam Gordon sits down with RL100 Member Yasar Ahmad, Global VP Talent at HelloFresh, who explains how he spotted an organisation he wanted to work with, walked into reception and pitched himself for a job!

We have Yasar Ahmed (Global Head of Tech Recruitment) and Keiran Dodd (Global Head of Executive recruitment) talk about their experience with the lockdown. The challenges they've faced, and how important it is that companies need be agile, be willing to pivot, and both inspire change and act on it.

In this success story Yasar Ahmad, Head of Talent Acquisition shares how Zalando builds diversity and inclusion using Codility. He shares why Zalando believes diversity is important, what benefits does it bring and how you can organize your hiring process to make it designed for people.

Yasar Ahmad, our Global Vice President of Talent, has got the answer! 🙌

Yasar Ahmad discusses strategic talent acquisition in a digital age on the BTN today. Here's a preview for you.

Yasar Ahmad, the VP of Talent at HelloFresh discusses the importance of internal mobility in driving engagement and lowering attrition.

AI & Recruitment, exploring all the interesting and scary areas of AI and Recruitment

Explore the powerful synergy between cutting-edge technology and successful recruiting practices.

Learn how to transform your HR teams and turn managers into champions for skills-based approaches to talent management, internal mobility and workforce planning

Yasar Ahmed, Global VP of Talent at HelloFresh, spills the beans on his unconventional journey from being a scrum master to becoming a recruitment legend! Uncover the strategies he employed at Wipro and what keeps him motivated in the ever-dynamic landscape of talent acquisition.

Yasar Ahmad, Global Vice President of Talent, Mobility, and Rewards at HelloFresh presents the fundamental best practices of internal mobility strategies that drive retention, engagement, and business performance

Welcome to the RecFest Live Lounge! Yasar & Steve Jacobs host a series of interviews.

Every company strives for innovation. Finding new and inventive ways to operate that will optimize processes and bolster growth is mission critical, across the board. But Talent Acquisition is something that often gets stuck in the mud. Especially in times when requisition volumes are high, or indeed low, it’s difficult to cast your thinking out and envision what the future of TA could be.