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Oslo Area, Norway

Hands-on coaching and support to leaders in both strategic and daily leadership issues including recruitments, team development, talent management, rehabilitation, employee engagement and culture building.- Nordic HR Partner for the Commercial Claims organization (2019 - 2020) with a strong focus on building a strong change and learning culture during a significant organizational change process. Achievements that I am proud of: - Built and rolled out a change management course to target both leaders and employees in the unit. This is a course offered to all If employees today. - Contributed to designing and rolling out a new learning model to drive competence development and engagement in the business unit- Support the organization with change management in organizational development processes including union involvement - Support leaders in labor law and regulations issues related to employee cases- Work proactively to identify improvement areas by enabling HR-analytics - Proactive role in the continuous improvement of HR services, and secure that HR Service Offerings are followed.

Oslo Area, Norway

Devoteam Fornebu Consulting is a Norwegian Management Consulting company in Devoteam Group. We facilitate and support our customers with a varied portfolio of services with digitization such as program and project management, strategy and conceptualization, processes, transformation and implementation. In my role, I support organizations on their path of digitizing their HR function. I contribute with my HR knowledge and experience to advise customers in the process of selecting and purchasing the HCM solution that fits best with their organizational needs. - Lead cross-functional workshops to map existing HR processes and challenges related to these and the existing HR system landscape - Guide the customer in describing future HR processes and identify the right HR system strategy that will support the company's strategic goals- Map stakeholders and stakeholder analysis to create the cornerstone of change management efforts - Compile system support needs based on the desire for more efficient and harmonized HR processes across customer units- Prepare and coordinate use-case workshops - Coordinate Request for Proposal processes and vendor evaluations with responsibility for the vendor communication on behalf of the customer.

Rosenholm Campus, Norway

-Interim HR Lead, contributed especially to recruitment activities, payroll processes and employees’ follow-up.-HR advisor role in 3 of the company's key business transfer projects, with responsibility for analyzing compensation & benefits packages, recruiting and contributing with HR expertise in customer meetings.

Oslo Area, Norway

Prospera is a non-profit organization focusing on engaging and enabling professionals in pro-bono consultancy for charities and humanitarian organizations. The organization also focuses on creating meeting places between professionals, government officials, social entrepreneurs, and charity organizations.

Oslo Area, Norway

Owned by Accenture and Microsoft, Avanade has 30,000 professionals in 70+ offices helping some of the world's largest companies to realize business value from platforms and systems built on Microsoft technologies. As Recruiting Lead in Avanade Norway I was responsible for the entire recruiting process for both graduate and experienced hires. Key responsibilities: - Implemented a new recruiting process that increased the quality of hire by ensuring consistency in how candidates were assessed and providing candidates with a better fit with Avanade's Core Values. - Partnered with our business leads across 6 service lines to respond to Avanade’s recruiting needs, identify the right recruiting sources/channels and detailing job descriptions. - Delivered training to ensure that our business recruiting teams have the right interviewing skills. - Owned and developed the recruiting marketing plan and participated at recruiting events. - Conducted employer branding activities (social media, events, ads).- Coordinated a team of 2 consultants within Avanade's HR outsourcing team in Argentina. This included driving process outsourcing and delegating recruiting administrative tasks, training and follow-up. - Implemented a new on-boarding program for new hires across the Nordic region.- Other daily recruiting activities such as: CV screening, interviewing, reference checking, handling candidates and relationship with recruiting agencies, offers and contracts and administration in TALEO. - Some other HR operations responsibility like payroll processes, internal controls, on-boarding of new-hires, and ad-hoc business support for the leadership team when needed.

Oslo Area, Norway

- Provided business support and teamed up with management in identifying and handling personnel issues.- Responsible for Career Managers training and engaged in coordinating other training activities.- Worked closely with our employee engagement survey that included data analysis, conducting workshops and creating and implementing a strategic action plan together with the leadership team. - Coordinated the on-boarding and off-boarding processes including on-boarding of new hires and exit interviews. Analyzed attrition data which contributed to Avanade's retention strategy. - Intranet “super user”, responsible for updating the employee handbook and other communication sites. - Coordinated the HR budget and planned company events.- Responsible for payroll processes and following up working hours, leaves and making sure that employment law regulations are met. - Part of the HSE group in Norway and actively followed up HSE actions. - Participated in HR projects both locally and at Nordic and Global level as needed.

Oslo Area, Norway

Assisted one of the professors with organizing a leadership simulation class: maintained contact with people involved in the project, familiarized with the leadership simulation software and structured the information to be given to students, trained students on how to use the software

Bucharest, Romania

Hudson is a leading provider of permanent recruitment, assessment centres and talent management solutions, worldwide. Key responsibilities:- Profiled candidates and matched them with job offers- Updated the company’s CV database- Headhunting for potential candidates- Created and posted job ads on student mailing lists

Bucharest, Romania

GfK is one of the top market research organizations worldwide. As an intern I was involved in the company’s projects: conducted semi-structured interviews, transcript of focus-group recordings, involved in the development of project reports.

Master Of Science, Human Resources, Organizational Behavior, Change Management, International Marketing, Branding

Activities and Societies: AIESEC member Outgoing Exchange Team Member: promoted internship exchange opportunities around school.

Bachelor, International Business And Economics

Activities and Societies: Board Member of AEGEE Bucharest as Secretary General and HR Coordinator: built up an enthusiastic HR team.