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Kym Abbott

Senior Recruitment Manager

Kym Abbott is the Senior Recruitment Manager at GEMS Education. Based at the company’s Head Office in Dubai, Kym is responsible for the development and implementation of the global recruitment strategy for their network of more than 70 schools. Each year, GEMS Education hires more than 1500 teachers to their global network of schools as the largest K-12 operator in the world.

Kym has been recruiting teachers and senior leaders to the Middle East market for 8 years. Since joining GEMS he has overseen the recruitment for 10 new schools in the United Arab Emirates and Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Notable achievements include the popular GEMS Founders School, Al Barsha, which in 2016 welcomed 1800 students in its first year, requiring 97 new teachers, and 105 in 2017. In September 2021 under Kym’s leadership, the GEMS recruitment team sourced 50 of the highest quality educators to open up the brand new GEMS Saudi International School, Dammam, KSA, during the Covid-19 outbreak.