From 300 CVs to 10: how DBS MENA tracks a hybrid workforce and hires faster with ZenHR

About DBS MENA

Digital Business Systems (DBS) MENA is a software house and SAP partner in Egypt. It runs on flexible working hours, and its consultants and developers split their time between remote work, the office and customer premises. It uses both ZenHR and ZenATS.

The challenge: tracking a flexible workforce and screening hundreds of CVs

When a team works from home, the office and client sites, a fixed clock-in at the front door tells you very little.

“The hardest thing for us was that we have flexible working hours. I wanted people to be able to record where they are, whether they’re working from home, in the office, or at a customer’s site.” — Nadia Khaled Ghazal

Recruitment added a second drain on HR time: each opening could bring in hundreds of applications, and someone had to read every CV. Reporting was manual too, so a simple question from leadership meant hours of gathering data.

Why ZenHR

DBS MENA needed an HR system built for how a tech company works, and one that understands the Egyptian market.

“ZenHR is localized for Egyptian labor law and taxes. That helped a lot. It understands the nature of work in the Egyptian market.” — Nadia Khaled Ghazal

The solution

• Geolocation attendance through the mobile app: employees record where they work, at home, in the office or at a client site, directly from their phones.
• Policies configured for a tech company: work-from-home policy, flexible hours and open shifts set up directly in the system.
• ZenATS with LinkedIn integration and AI screening: Nadia sets the criteria for a role, and ZenATS filters applicants automatically.
• Payroll and compliance localized for Egypt: labor law and tax rules built in.

“ZenATS is the thing closest to my heart. The integration with LinkedIn and AI made our attraction process very smooth. I set the criteria I want, and it does the filtering. Instead of 300 CVs, I get about 10.” — Nadia Khaled Ghazal

Results: a shortlist in minutes, a report in one click

• About 97% fewer CVs to review: AI filtering narrows roughly 300 applications down to about 10.
• Accurate attendance across every work setting, recorded by location through the mobile app.
• Hours of reporting cut to one click: HR pulls a ready report and sends it straight to the CEO.
• Egypt-ready compliance: labor law and tax handled by the system, not spreadsheets.

“This cut down my time a lot. I no longer spend hours searching and compiling. I just pull a report from the system, send it to the CEO, and that’s done.” — Nadia Khaled Ghazal

In her words

“What I love most is ZenHR and ZenATS. They’re close to my heart. They make things so much easier for us.” — Nadia Khaled Ghazal