Career Center Team Biographies
Caroline Nassar
Assistant Director, Career Advising and Scholarship Engagement
t: +20.2.2615.3820
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Caroline Nassar is an assistant director of career advising and scholarship engagement at The American University in Cairo's (AUC) Career Center. Her scope of work involves providing individual career advice to students and alumni as well as holding career development workshops and outreach sessions to help clarify career interests and to support their career planning and job search. Nassar is also qualified to administer and interpret several self-assessment tools such as the Strong Interest Inventory (SII) and the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). She is an advocate for equal opportunity for all; she aids in raising awareness of inclusion in the workplace and works with students with disabilities to better prepare them for the job market.
Nassar has experience in supporting students and alumni in their graduate studies search, and scholarship and application process. Her scope of work spans from reaching out and coordinating with different international universities to hold on-campus graduate study information sessions, to planning and organizing an annual international graduate study fair with participation from international universities, institutes, and organizations offering graduate study opportunities and scholarships.
Nassar graduated from the German University in Cairo with a bachelor's degree in business informatics, then later obtained her master's degree from AUC in the field of international and comparative education. She currently coaches public universities’ staff members in career planning and job search as part of a USAID-funded project (UCCD), teaches at the Professional Educator Diploma at AUC, and volunteers with CISV to promote peace education among teenagers internationally.
Engy Emil
Manager, Career Services
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t: +20.2.2615.3793
Engy Emil is passionate about guiding the young generation to gain the knowledge, exposure, and support needed to confidently and resourcefully be launched to the next phase of their lives, grounded with high ethics, character excellence, and multiplying further impact into their future spheres. Emil contributes to the planning and organization of career readiness programs/events. She provides training workshops and one-on-one advising sessions to coach undergraduate/graduate students and alumni in areas of self-assessment, researching majors, exploring interests, career planning, mock interviewing, resume critique, and developing job search strategies. Emil obtained her bachelor's degree in business administration, and a diploma in counseling psychotherapy, and is a certified coach from the International Coaching Federation. Before her work at AUC, Emil facilitated and mentored students in private schools in character development education. She also tailored and delivered training programs for parents and coached a wide range of family members to pursue personal growth and improve relationship dynamics.
Leidya Boutros
Director, Employer Relations
t: +20.2.2615.3790
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Leidya is currently overseeing the Career Center’s employer engagement programs including experiential learning programs and recruitment services. In this role, Leidya leads the conceptualization, development and implementation of comprehensive student exploration programs such as the job shadowing and externship programs; student engagement programs such as internships, CO-OP, work study program; and hiring solutions such as year-round full-time, part-time and temporary job opportunities accessible to graduating seniors and alumni. Leidya also has experience as assistant director of career services and scholarship engagement, guiding students and alumni in various stages of career development which has, coupled with prior roles, provided her with experience across the spectrum of career services in higher education.
Leidya is one of the few Facilitating Career Development Master Trainers (FCD-MT) certified by the National Career Development Association (NCDA) outside of the U.S. Since 2012, Leidya has contributed to the first training of career services providers in the region and in Egypt in universities’ career centers, established through a USAID-funded grant. Leidya was also selected to deliver the course to professionals from the Egyptian Ministry of Youth and Sports, and an Egyptian youth development non-governmental organization as part of the Aswan Skills Development Program (ASDP) funded by Global Affairs Canada. Leidya also delivered multiple courses to Saudi professionals in various sectors, as part of the joint strategic initiative between the King Saud University and the NCDA.
Leidya holds the Certified Career Services Provider (CCSP) credential, and is licensed to run and interpret the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and the Strong Interest Inventory (SII). She is a certified Holistic Narrative Career Professional (HNCP) and accredited Strengths Profile practitioner. Leidya is a member of NCDA, the National Association for Colleges and Employers (NACE), and the National Society of Experiential Education (NSEE).
Leidya’s professional experience includes diplomatic service in the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and working on public diplomacy programs in the U.S. Embassy in Cairo. Leidya’s passion for helping people was the motivation behind the career shift from political science to career guidance. After acquiring a bachelor’s degree in political science from Cairo University, Leidya continued to obtain a master’s degree in international relations from the American University in Cairo and has completed a master's in counseling psychology through a distance program with Hope International University in California.
Leila Dubois
Senior Career Advisor
t: +20.2.2615.3800
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Leila Dubois is a senior career advisor at AUC's Career Center. At first, Dubois joined the Career Center while pursuing her bachelor's degree as a peer career advisor, part of the peer career leader work-study program. Her current scope of work involves providing individual career advising to students and alumni as well as holding career development workshops and outreach sessions to help clarify career interests and support their career planning and job search. Dubois is also managing the peer career advisor team in addition to co-managing the peer career leader work-study program.
Dubois has experience in supporting students and alumni in their graduate studies, and scholarship and application process. Her scope of work spans from reaching out and coordinating with different international universities to hold on-campus graduate study information sessions, to planning and organizing an annual international graduate study fair with participation from international universities, institutes, and organizations offering graduate study opportunities and scholarships.
Formerly, Dubois was a deputy head and senior second language instructor at the American International School. She returned to the Career Center to continue helping students find their career aspirations and to better prepare themselves for it and plan for a successful career. Dubois has a bachelor's degree from AUC in English and comparative literature and a double minor in business administration and psychology.
Maha El Moslemany
Senior Director, Career Center
t: +20.2.2615.3790
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With more than 17 years of experience as a career educator, Maha El Moslemany oversees the development and implementation of the full range of career services and programs at AUC’s Career Center including employer engagement, career advising, and experiential learning. Over time, El Moslemany was a catalyst of change designing and introducing new programs/services to increase the hiring venues of AUC’s Career Center offered to students/alumni and employers to enhance AUC’s employability rates and increase AUCians’ career readiness easing their transition to the world of work.
Her purposeful passion is enabling Millennials and GenZ's to become the best version of their professional selves. She consciously shifted her career from advertising to career education with a focus on coaching, training, capacity building, and enhancing AUCians’ career preparation toolkits. She has been a Career Development Facilitator Instructor (CDFI) since 2010 and has designed and delivered modules of the FCD curriculum to certify Career Service Providers (CSPs) in addition to coaching and mentoring CSPs across Egypt.
Professional affiliations include membership in the National Career Development Association (NCDA) and the National Association for Colleges and Employers (NACE).
El Moslemany graduated with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and mass communication with a double minor in psychology and business administration from AUC.
Areas of Expertise
Career Guidance and Coaching
Career Readiness and Employability
Strategic Employer Branding
Employer Relations/Engagement
Personal Branding
Experiential Learning
Capacity Building
Job Search
Psychometric Assessments
Marianne Elia
Senior Manager, Recruitment Services
t: +20.2.2615.3518
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Marianne Elia has been working at AUC for the past 18 years. Elia is experienced in recruitment services, she has been closely working with employers from multinationals, non-profit organizations, and small and medium enterprises, engaging them with AUC Career Center recruitment services and events. She has been the go-to person for different employer activities with the Career Center. Currently, Elia is working as a senior manager of recruitment services where she focuses on building relationships with different entities and collaborating and engaging employers while managing AUC’s major recruitment event: the bi-annual Employment Fair.
Derived by her passion for service and volunteering, she attained her master’s degree in public administration (MPA) at AUC where she also received her bachelor's degree in journalism and mass communication and a diploma in human resources management. She has also attained the Career Service Provider (CSP) certification offered by the National Career Development Association (NCDA) in the USA, to develop her abilities further and harness her skills. In January 2020, and as a sign of her high standards of performance, Elia received AUC’s Centennial award for her dedication, contribution, and commitment to excellence.
Mary Henry
Manager, Experiential Learning
t: +20.2.2615.3838
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Mary has been working at the AUC Career Center since 2008 where she has successfully built and sustained long term relationships with students, employers, and faculty. She continuously contributes the skills learned to build student trust and rapport to effectively guide them to gain practical insight through the job shadowing program. Moreover, she manages the Co-Op program with the business school and has introduced an interviewing session for students to guide them on how to effectively prepare for interviews and follow-up.
Henry has been recognized in 2019 for offering international internship opportunities for students, various job shadowing visits, and for her customer service and positive spirit within the office. Currently, Mary has just completed the 120 hour NCDA Facilitating Career Development Training and is now preparing to become a Certified Career Service Provider (CCSP) offered by the National Career Development Association (NCDA) to further expand her career skills. From her daily rapport with employers and students and her hands-on experience in experiential career services, she completed a career coaching certificate with Aspire Training Solutions in 2019 to help others reach their ultimate career goals. Henry graduated from AUC with a Bachelor in business administration. Driven by her passion for helping, listening, and encouraging others, Henry completed her masters in counseling from AUC in 2012.
Menna Awad
Officer, Work Study
t: +20.2.2615.3793
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Menna Awad holds a bachelor's degree in economics and a master's degree in economics in international development from AUC. Awad joined the AUC Career Center as a work-study officer after working in the development field for four years where she practiced project impact evaluation and regression analyses assessing multiple variables affecting the Egyptian labor market. Awad is responsible for managing the work-study program, which allows students to acquire hands-on experience and earn additional income in addition to their academic study at AUC.
Nouran Victor
Assistant Director, Information and Career Communications
t: +20.2.2615.3792
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Nouran Victor joined the Career Center in 2015 and she works mainly to promote and publicize the Career Center’s services among students, alumni, faculty, and employers. She handles the office communication strategy and manages all the promotional material disseminated from the Career Center above the line and below the line. Victor has been working at AUC since 2011. In 2010, she started pursuing her master's degree in journalism and mass communication at AUC focusing on the marketing activities of the presidential elections that were held in 2012. Meanwhile, she worked in the mass communication and marketing departments as a teaching assistant until June 2014.
Victor graduated from Misr International University, mass communication department in 2006. With a passionate heart to serve people, she chose to start her career by joining Future Foundation in 2006; a non-profit organization that worked with underprivileged Egyptians in slum areas. At that time, the foundation’s mission was to renovate slum areas inside greater Cairo with new houses and rehabilitate all the inhabitants with fundamental vocational and life skills.
Rana Ashour
Manager, Operations
t: +20.2.2615.3841
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Rana Ashour is an experienced operations and administration professional with over 10 years of expertise in financial management, office operations, and strategic support at The American University in Cairo (AUC). Specializing in budgeting, procurement, and administrative functions.
Since joining the Career Center at AUC in 2018, Rana has been instrumental in overseeing the center’s financial operations, including revenue collection, invoicing, and annual budget management. She is skilled at generating detailed financial reports, monitoring budget performance, and forecasting for upcoming programs and events. Her ability to manage complex budgets and allocate resources efficiently has been instrumental in supporting the Career Center’s mission. Rana’s expertise also extends to operations and administration, where she coordinates logistics for various Career Center events and maintains effective systems for resource management. Her work has played a key role in streamlining operations and ensuring smooth execution of events, workshops, and student programs. Rana holds a Master of Arts in Economics with a focus on International Development from AUC, as well as a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Cairo University.
Rania Abou El Naga
Manager, Career Events and Administration
t: +20.2.2615.3822
[email protected]
Rania Abou El Naga joined the AUC Career Center in 1997 and graduated from the faculty of arts at Helwan University with a bachelor's degree in English literature. With over 25 years of experience in administration, finance, and organizing and planning events, she managed to gain the trust of her colleagues and develop a strong relationship both professionally and personally with the center’s staff, AUC administrative departments, students, alumni, employers, and external suppliers.
Abou El Naga is responsible for managing the organizational, logistics, and procurement-related functions of all the center’s year-round career and recruitment events in coordination with the relevant event owners. She also handles the events’ administrative functions of the career advising, experiential, and recruitment activities and liaises with external agencies.
Her passion for helping and supporting her colleagues, in addition to her interest in learning more, made her expertise in many skills areas like leadership, decision-making, creativity, communication and negotiation skills, graphic designing, and solving technical matters. Moreover, Abou El Naga seeks to maintain high-performance standards and ensures that everything complies with the AUC’s mission and vision.
Sandy Fakhry
Officer, On-Campus Recruitment
t: +20.2.2615.2621
[email protected]
Sandy Fakhry, currently the on-campus recruitment officer at AUC's Career Center, has over nine years of experience in human resources and recruiting services. Fakhry has a strong passion for helping people and is a data-driven recruiter who is passionate about matching candidates with the right career move.
Before joining AUC in 2019, she was a senior talent acquisition specialist at a top pharmaceutical company. During her tenure there, she supported other departments with a variety of functions including planning, budgeting, candidate sourcing, pre-interview screening, job posting management, pre-hire testing, and background check administration.
She began her career as an internal communications officer at Schneider Electric Egypt, thereafter she worked as an agency recruiter across a diverse range of industries and geographies. Sandy recruited professionals in all specialties from staff level to senior management and provided recruiting support to clients by sourcing and screening candidates and conducting interviews to ensure her clients find and hire the best candidates available.
Sophia Khalifa
Officer, Internships
t: +20.2.2615.3862
[email protected]
Sophia Khalifa holds a bachelor's degree in business administration from AUC. After working in various roles within the multinational and FMCG industry encompassing roles within human resources, organizational development, marketing, and business development, she joined the Career Center team to combine her passion for corporations and organizations with her purpose of development through becoming a part of the experiential learning team.
Taline Toufayan
Assistant Director, Operation and Assessment
t: +20.2.2615.3797
[email protected]
Taline Toufayan is the co-founder of AUC’s Career Center, which was established in 1991. With expertise in developing and building the center’s operations and assessment, she led the planning and implementation of the career center’s outcomes assessment strategy, setting evaluation standards for the center’s wide range of services and events. Toufayan oversees the center’s budget and management of events’ logistics. She leads the administration and analysis of alumni employability and employer surveys.
Yara Helmi
Manager, Employer Relations
[email protected]
t: +20.2.2615.3823
Yara Helmi joined the AUC Career Center in January 2022, her main role is to widen the Career Center employers network among various industries. The key focus is to analyze the employers’ database and set the right business development strategies according to industry gaps in relevance to students’ majors and needs. In addition to managing key employers and employer partners. Having more than 15 years of experience in business development and client relations management across various industries and through working with several multinational companies have helped to build professional business acumen in different areas such as data analytics, data management, and data mapping, clients/employers experience, and journey to solicit more opportunities to AUC's students and alumni.