Launch your career with the Summer 2023 Localized Virtual Career Fair!

We’re bringing employers, industry experts, and career coaches together on Localized to help you launch your career in tech and business. This is your opportunity to interact with employers seeking to recruit exceptional and diverse talent in meaningful roles across different industries and geographies.

Sign up for the career fair to:

✅ Learn about open positions in your country and meet with recruiters looking for talent like you 

✅ Explore different industries through expert sessions about sectors like AI, FinTech, Robotics and more

✅ Attend Career Development Workshops to improve your CV/Resume and Cover Letter writing skills

✅ Apply for open positions



Localized is a career intelligence company that connects learners with industry experts to guide them and employers to hire them. 

Localized Virtual Career Fair: Summer 2023

Chemistry

Marketing 

Information Communications Technology

Be part of the world’s most successful, purpose-led business. Work with brands that are well-loved around the world, that improve the lives of our consumers and the communities around us. We promote innovation, big and small, to make our business win and grow; and we believe in business as a force for good.

Our portfolio of companies ranges from nutritionally balanced foods to indulgent ice creams, affordable soaps, luxurious shampoos and everyday household care products. We produce world-leading brands including **Lipton, Knorr, Dove, Axe, Hellmann’s **and **Omo**, alongside trusted local names and innovative-forward thinking brands like **Ben & Jerry’s, The Dollar Shave Club and Dermalogica**.

**What Roles are You Looking to Fill?**

Marketing, Sales, Finance, Operations, Design, Product, Data Sciences, Supply Chain

**Will You be Recruiting Interns or Early-Stage Employees or Both?**

Both


**Are Your Opportunities Remote, City or Country-Specific or Flexible?**

Flexible: Remote & UAE, KSA, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain

Employee Experience Lead - Arabia

Entry-Level Careers at Unilever: How to Get Your Start After Graduation

VP Marketing & Operations

Country Administrator 

Trend Micro, a global cybersecurity leader, helps make the world safe for exchanging digital information. Fueled by decades of security expertise, world-leading global threat research and intelligence, and continuous innovation, our cybersecurity platform protects hundreds of thousands of organizations and millions of individuals across clouds, networks, devices, and endpoints. .


**What Roles are You Looking to Fill?**

Tech, Sales, Account Management 

**Will You be Recruiting Interns or Early-Stage Employees or Both?**

Both

**Are Your Opportunities Remote, City or Country-Specific or Flexible?**

Country-Specific: UAE, South Africa, Egypt, KSA, Qatar, Jordan, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Oman, Kenya, Nigeria, Bahrain

Sr. Manager- Human Resource, MENA

Talent Acquisition Manager & HR Partner MMEA

Senior HR Business Partner Sub-Saharan Africa

Cybersecurity Careers for Grads: Opportunities and Programs for Entry-Level Candidates

Volunteer

Are you interested in marketing but unsure how to land your first role after university? Rami Shamel is a LIVE Content and Campaigns Manager @ **TikTok** he has also worked for world-class global brands including **Apple, Google and YouTube. ** Learn how a History major graduated from university and landed a tech job at the biggest tech companies in the world. 

This expert will share insights on: 

✅ How to land your first role in Marketing 

✅ Tips to help you stand out in the application process 

✅ Working in marketing, what can you do? 

✅ Translating your skills and degree to help you land your first job


How to Land Your First Marketing Job

Biomedical Engineering

Students, graduates, and early career professionals interested in project management skills or in exploring a project management career, need to grow their skills and knowledge, but often do not know where to start. Career Navigator is a free career development platform for students, those exploring a potential career in project management, and early career project professionals.  You build out a comprehensive profile of skills, interests, and goals. Career Navigator will provide a step-by-step personalized roadmap, with goals and milestones, to help you achieve your career and growth goals. 

**From this session, you will learn more about:**


✅ What Career Navigator is and why students will find it helpful

✅ How you can use it to start charting your career path

✅ What types of content and activities it recommends

✅ How to access it and navigate through the platform


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# About the Project Management Institute (PMI): 

Project Management Institute (PMI) is the leading professional association for project management, and the authority for a growing global community of millions of project professionals and individuals who use project management skills.  Collectively, these professionals consistently create better outcomes for business, community and society worldwide.  PMI empowers people to make ideas a reality.  Through global advocacy, networking, collaboration, research and education, PMI prepares organizations and individuals at every stage of their career journey to work smarter so they can drive success in a world of change.


**Meet the speakers**

# Kerry Brooks: 
Kerry Brooks is the career platforms product manager with PMI’s Global Emerging Products team. Her background is in product development and management, as well as strategic marketing. Kerry works with her teams to develop career-focused digital solutions to solve customer pain-points throughout their career journeys. Currently, Kerry is focused on enhancing and growing career platforms and tools like Career Navigator, the PMI Job Board, and Kickoff as part of her portfolio.

Kerry has her Bachelor’s Degree in Communications from Marist College and her Master’s in Business Administration from Wilmington University. She also holds the Certified Product Manager certification from Pragmatic Institute, and her Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) and Certified Scrum Master
(CSM) certifications.


Project and Human Resource Administrator and Management Specialist 

Global Product Manager

Mapping Your Career Path with PMI: Tools & Resources for Students & Grads 

Majorel is an international service company, specializing in customer experience and business process outsourcing services. It has more than 82,000 team members and operates in 45 countries on five continents.

Majorel designs, delivers and differentiates customer experience management (CXM) on behalf of some of the world's most respected brands - in sectors ranging from banking and telecommunications, to retail and tourism.

**What Roles are You Looking to Fill?**

Customer Success

**Will You be Recruiting Interns or Early-Stage Employees or Both?**

Early-Stage Employees

**Are Your Opportunities Remote, City or Country-Specific or Flexible?**

In Country -- Egypt

French Talent Acquisition Senior

Offshore Talent Acquisition Specialist

We design, build and deliver end-to-end CX for many of the world’s most respected digital-native and vertical leading brands.

Our comprehensive east-to-west global footprint in 44 countries across five continents, with 82,000+ team members and 60+ languages, means we can deliver flexible solutions that leverage our unique expertise in cultural nuance – essential for true excellence in CX.

The real ‘*Majorel difference*’ lies in our culture of entrepreneurship. We are relentless, resourceful, resilient and agile – all pulling together as One Team. It’s the only way to deliver the total reliability and digital transformation necessary in our constantly changing world.

Customer Service Opportunities in Egypt with Majorel: Relationship Management for Grads

Freelance Graphic Designer

✨**Interested in joining Google? Fill out this form [https://bit.ly/3p9Np2P]()!**✨

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# Welcome to the world of Google! 

Are you curious about what it’s like to be part of **Google**, one of the world's largest technology companies?

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**Google**, a subsidiary of Alphabet, is known for its wide range of products and services, including  **YouTube, Google Cloud, Fitbit,** and more. 

As an industry leader, at Google, we believe that a  problem isn't truly solved until it's solved for all. At Google, we build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe. 

Bring your insight, imagination, and a healthy disregard for the impossible. Bring everything that makes you unique. Together, we can build for everyone. Check out our career opportunities at [careers.google.com]()

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# About the session:

During this session hosted by the Google team, you'll gain insights into the day-to-day experiences of employees.

Here's an outline of the schedule for the session:

✨ A presentation of Google's company culture

✨ An introduction to tech Googlers and their roles 

✨ Panel discussion  

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This session aims to provide you with a deeper understanding of the working environment at Google and the various tech roles. By getting a better understanding of the responsibilities Googlers have, you’ll gain valuable insights into what it takes to work at Google and build for everyone.

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# About the Speakers:


**Tara Ojo - Software Engineer - **Tara studied Computer Science with Multimedia at Aston University in Birmingham, UK. Tara has worked in edTech, eCommerce, and other industries before joining the London office as a Software Engineer. She currently works within Research on projects in the healthcare space.

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**Andrei  Timofticiuc - Software Engineer Fitbit -** Timo has over 12 years of software development experience and is always curious to see what's under the hood of software systems. He specializes in iOS development, having worked on projects from small startups all the way to large-scale businesses, with global mobile products used daily by millions of users. He is a certified cat lover and part-time musical artist.

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**Jan Dudziec  - Site Reliability Engineer -** Jan is Site Reliability Engineer, responsible for protecting, providing for, and progressing the software and systems behind several Google’s public services with an ever-watchful eye on their availability, latency, performance, and capacity. Since joining the company he has been working in the Cloud Defense SRE team in the Warsaw office.

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**Alizée Popów - Program Manager -** Alizée is a Program Manager for Student Talent Outreach. Her role revolves around supporting student and graduate candidates in their pathways to Google EMEA with a special focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion. 

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**Tenni Cole-Etti - Technical Recruiter -** Tenni is a Technical Recruiter, responsible for providing talent to several product areas within London and Ireland. Since starting back in 2017, his role has been to act as a subject-matter expert and advisor to multiple clients helping to source for different roles. Using his knowledge of the market and these recruitment processes, he has been able to identify gaps in business talent needs and source candidates to address them.


Program Manager, Student Talent Outreach

Staff Software Engineer

Software Engineer

Technical Recruiter

Life and Working at Google: Careers, Culture and Creativity 

Environmental Specialist

Computer Science

Are you studying computer science, curious about coding or interested in a career in tech? Pat Cedrowski, our very own CTO and Head of Product is sharing his insider knowledge around some of the languages and skills in software engineering. He'll share insights about: 

✅ What is a software engineer and what do they do? 

✅ Difference between an Individual contributor and Architect 

✅ What you need to know about Scrum, working agile, and working with Git

✅ How to prepare and apply to roles in software engineering



## About Pat Cedrowski
Pat is the CTO and Head of Product for Localized, he's worked in a variety of roles in the tech industry for over a decade. Pat has worked as an **Android Engineer & Full Stack Rails Developer** at Wine Library and Android Engineer at MeeGenius, Inc., and then as a **Lead Android Engineer** at CardFlight. In 2015 he became the Mobile Engineering Manager at Weight Watchers and eventually VP of Engineering at Apprentice before Co-Founding his own company, Inlet -- a digital multimedia live streaming platform focused on low latency and highly scalable HLS technology.


CTO and Head of Product

Introduction to Careers in Software Engineering

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Are you interested in doing meaningful work, changing lives and building a sustainable career? Learn about careers at FHI 360. FHI 360 serves more than 70 countries and all U.S. states and territories. The 360-degree perspective embodies the hope and the promise of redefining the possibilities of human development.

FHI 360 is a nonprofit human development organization dedicated to improving lives in lasting ways by advancing integrated, locally driven solutions. FHI 360 employees include experts in health, education, nutrition, environment, economic development, civil society, gender, youth, research, technology, communication and social marketing - creating a unique mix of capabilities to address today’s interrelated development challenges.

**What Roles are You Looking to Fill?**

Research, Operations

**Will You be Recruiting Interns or Early-Stage Employees or Both?**

Early-Stage Employees

**Are Your Opportunities Remote, City or Country-Specific or Flexible?**

Country-specific: Jordan, Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia

Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist, International Development

Entry-level Careers with Purpose: Working for FHI360

Senior Quality Engineer

Are you interested in working in tech but you lack the technical knowledge and don't know where to start? Join Maya Murad, who started off in a career in consulting and transitioned into a role as a technical product manager for IBM. Learn how her role operates, what the day-to-day for a technical PM looks like and how to enter into the world of tech.

✅ Breaking into Product Management with a non-technical background

✅ Productizing early-stage technologies

✅ Managing AI products

**About Maya Murad:**
**Maya Murad** is a Technical Product Manager at IBM Research, based in Boston (USA). Maya has experience working closely with researchers to de-risk early-stage technologies and developing market-ready AI products. She previously worked as a management consultant for Bain & Company and an innovation consultant for the UN World Food Program. She holds an MS in Engineering and Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a BA in Economics from the American University of Beirut.


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Localized Virtual Career Fair: Summer 2023

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Localized Virtual Career Fair: Summer 2023

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