This is the slides of a talk by Ameer Sherif, CEO of WUZZUF - on the "HR Basics learned from fast growth Startups" It was held on 10th and 11th of January at Fairmont Heliopolis Hotel, Heliopolis, Egypt as part of the HR360 Conference Egypt which has been the pinnacle meeting point for the HR community in Egypt to meet, swap notes, listen to great insights, and MOVE FORWARD! ========================================­====== Ameer Sherif is CEO and Co-founder of WUZZUF - Egypt’s #1 Online Recruitment Platform. Having co-founded WUZZUF 5 years ago, Ameer managed to bootstrap for 3 years during the tough revolution years until reaching profitability and then successfully fundraising from top angel investors in Egypt as well as top VCs in Silicon Valley – making WUZZUF the 1st startup from Egypt to join the [500 Startups] accelerator program in San Francisco. In the past 3 years, WUZZUF has helped over 5,000 companies hire more than 50,000 Egyptians - and has sponsored 60+ job fairs and employment events. WUZZUF's goal is building and utilizing technology to match people with the right jobs at scale. Ameer is passionate about lean startups, agile development, product management, machine learning, and inbound marketing. Ameer holds a BSc in Electronics Engineering and a MSc in Computer Engineering, both from Cairo University.

1. Back to the Basics
HR Lessons from Fast Growth Startups
Ameer Sherif
CEO and Co-founder
@ WUZZUF

2. Agenda
• About me and WUZZUF
• Why back to HR basics? Business basics?
• Why high growth tech startups?
• Business lifecycle
• The basics… Talent acquisition and retention
• The HR Generalist / CEO, motivation, and culture
• Organizational deveopment, Learning & Dev, Comp & Ben
• HRIS, Policies and procedures, and Succession planning?
• The HR basics and business lifecycle
• Questions
• WUZZUF Survey

5. 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
WUZZUF Overview, Impact,
and Growth…

6. 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
WUZZUF Overview, Impact,
and Growth…
• The tough years… 2010... 2012
• 3M+ Job applications, 100k+ vacancies,
• 50%+ market share of high-end jobs in Egypt
• 5,000+ companies, 60,000+ people hired
• Raised $2m in total. 90% from US and Europe
• ~10x growth in past 2 years. 8 to 80 employees

7. Back the HR Basics… or business basics?
What’s your definition of business?
Why growth tech startups?

8. 8

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Apple Inc.
Founded in 1976
Now: $233 BILLION in revenues
115,000 employees!

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Microsoft Corporation
Founded in 1975
Now: $94 BILLION in revenues
118,000 employees!

13. Intel
Founded in 1968
Now: $55 BILLION in revenues
106,000 employees

15. HP
Founded in 1939 by Bill Hewlett
and Dave Packard
Now: $111 BILLION in revenues
302,000 employees

17. Samsung HQ in 1930s
Founded in 1938
Now: $305 BILLION in revenues
489,000 employees!

19. Google
Founded in 1998
Now: $66 BILLION in revenues
60,000 employees!

21. Amazon
Founded in 1994
Now: $89 BILLION in revenues
222,000 employees!

23. Facebook
Founded in 2004
Now: $12 BILLION in revenues
12,000 employees
1.5 BILLION Users

25. HR Basics #1
Talent acquisition and retention

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27. HR Basics #2
The HR Generalist, Culture, and
Motivation – a.k.a. the CEO

28. HR Basics #3
Compensation and Benefits, Org
Dev, and Learning and Dev

29. 29

30. HR Basics #4
HRIS, Policies and Procedures, and
Succession Planning

31. Talent acquisition
Talent retention, performance management
Vision, Mission,
Values, Culture
Compensation and Benefits, Org Dev, HRIS, Policies, etc.
Learning and Dev, Succession planning

32. To summarize…
Refresh your view on the basics
of HR and business
Read... explore...and stay relevant

33. Thank You !
@AmeerSherif

34. Questions?
@AmeerSherif