Providing professional & personal support to current students Mentoring, aligning my professional strengths to enable them to network effectively, increase their self-awareness around their personal strengths, maximise their full potential and developing an action plan to help them succeed in their identified career path.

LifeArc have a number of key strategic HR initiatives that are critical to the direction the company is going in. I act as project lead for many of the priority initiatives. Leveraging my HR consulting and project experience I am engaging with a number of key stakeholders both internally and externally to ensure the projects that are within my remit are executed on plan, and add the value as intended in their design. In addition to this I am working in a generalist capacity across a number of HR activities.

Muse Inc is an organisation that is passionate about organisations. Muse Inc looks at how organisations work and how they can work better, through the creation and development of workplace apps and technologies, bringing together networks and ecosystems, and making sense of much of the mass of information that exists in the world of work for the benefit of increasing organisational performance.

I worked on a range of client facing projects as well as internal ones including, but not limited to, improving the employee experience, to-be HR Op Model design, HRSS agent training for SaaS implementations, Senior Managers Regime, diversity and inclusion research, compensation and benefits harmonisation and analysis and writing proposals.Below are just a few examples of my role activities:I conducted research on good practice for key HR issues clients were facing and provided examples of what other organisations have done to improve their capability or maturity with regards to the issue. In addition to the good practice research conducted current state analysis from key HR and business stakeholders to understand the current landscape of HR.I delivered presentations to stakeholders of varying levels of seniority, developing recommendations and action items. Programme management was another activity I was involved in which included updating, consolidating status reports managing an action logs ensuring that all items were logged and closed when the issue was resolved. I documented workstream progress and activities and presented a dashboard for HRLT with some insights and recommendations based on the discussions from cross workstream meetings.I also created materials to be used by the HRLT in senior off-site activities, and comms for leadership to communicate to the wider HR population in Townhall meetings. I worked with a number of senior stakeholders in developing the communications produced to inform an affected population about the new framework and structure of that population. This included taking part in workshops with a committee of senior stakeholders to ensure the content and language was fit for purpose, gathering data and capturing it in proposals and various for the review of Board. The work Michael was involved with was also visible to the CEO, Chairman and the Executive, as this programme is endorsed by these key members of the Firm.

Ensuring legal compliance with employment regulations Working with HR Manager to create policy suite Ownership of whole on-boarding process Organising and running inductions with input from Directors Ensuring positive initial experience for all new starters Working with HR Manager in establishing comprehensive PM framework that links business strategy and KPIs with individual performance deliveryProposalsSecuring data providersSecuring e-Learning HRMIOwnership of reward and benefits remitLeading the project on the creation of the new employee handbook

Comparative AnalysisReport writingAssisting in preparing defence for Employment TribunalsOrganising sickness documents and filingPolicy draftingWriting up HR Ops meeting minutesDealing with leave queriesDealing with transition queriesDocumenting all email correspondence for HR Case ChronologiesDealing with probation issuesWriting confirmation in post lettersLiaising with different business units for documentation and data neededEmployment Tribunal and Employment Law researchCalculating employee pay for pay downgradesPolicy researchCapability Gross MisconductAssisting HR Advisor and Business Managers in preparation for meetingsLetter DraftingAdvising on Maternity issuesOwnership of the Gifts and Hospitality portfolioCase ManagementGrievance auditingOrganisational Learning Outcomes

Assisting in preparing for passport auditOn-boarding new starters on Talent Tree databaseInputting and amending Bonus dataUpdating Visa spreadsheet for International workersWriting up employment contractsUploading Passport and visa details and images onto Talent Tree databaseAssisting in transferring data from old database to new databaseOrganising the filing system and ensuring each employee had physical fileSorting all employee files into categories of Perm, FTC and LeaversEnsuring necessary contractual, employee relations and right to work data was on file

ComplianceScreening candidates for selectionContacting candidates for documentationManaging candidate spreadsheet and databasesDealing with candidate queriesLiaising with Social Care Team to ensure lean productionAuditing client documentsHandling CV’s and CV preparationSubmitting candidates for vacanciesManaging job adverts (including responses also)

Experience in managing, auditing and benchmarking policies and proceduresBest PracticeBenchmarkingTidying HR Policy and Procedure folder – benchmarking policies and procedures with that of other organisations and XpertHR to ensure necessary policies and procedures are in placeManaging Organisational change (Developing a Centre of Excellence)ResearchHR PlanningCreating Centre of Excellence Plan – research, planning, conducting meetings with management, creating Centre of Excellence BlueprintConducting Employee SurveysFormatting dataPresenting data in meetings and liaising with Marketing and Communications to further communicate to employees, via newsletterAssessing employee motivation and moraleEmployee Satisfaction Survey – Collecting and segmenting data into a format presentable for supervisor and CEO