Hire Arabia Podcast – Recruiting & Business in the Middle East

About Hire Arabia Podcast – Recruiting & Business in the Middle East

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.

Publisher

Ines Mokrani

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

20 Aug 2025

Latest episode

13 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

62 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   13 Oct 2026

   Episode 62 - The AI Skills Shift: What Employers Want Is Already Changing

   Employer demand for AI skills just shifted — from prompting to building. Here’s what Workday’s new data (and an uncomfortable management/L&D gap inside it) means for employers, employees and candidates alike.

2. 

   6 Oct 2026

   Episode 61 - Ownership can transfer in an afternoon. Leadership readiness takes years.

   Ownership can transfer in an afternoon. Leadership readiness takes years. Ines Mokrani examines the real gap behind the Gulf’s succession wave — and the number everyone quotes that nobody can actually source.

3. 

   29 Sept 2026

   Episode 60 - The AI Accountability Test: What GCC Leaders Need to Prove Before the Board Does the Asking

   CEOs have taken personal ownership of AI decisions faster than governance has matured. Here’s what GCC leaders need to be able to prove — before the board asks.

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