sylvie marsh

As Secretary I was responsible for making sure the executive agenda was carried out by various members of the exec, as well as keeping track of meeting minutes, assisting with grants applications and general club housekeeping.

* I champion our team of HR Administrators and HR Advisors who deliver day-to-day support to our clients in NZ, Auz, the UK and Singapore, including: * recruitment documentation and strategy * remuneration reviews and advice * disciplinaries * restructures * performance management and behaviour change * ad hoc enquiries and queries about legislation, best practice, and all people-related topics * My day-to-day varies from managing complicated people situations, to designing and delivering value-add initiatives to our clients, to coaching my team through a delicate process or situation, to working with our development and marketing teams so that we deliver the best software and HR experience in the business.

* I spent four weeks with the Agri team pre-Christmas and four weeks with the Commercial team in January. My time with ANZ included the following: * frontline experience, attending Business of Banking seminars with Agri managers, local accountants and farmers, and visiting clients in the Hokianga, Moerewa and Kaikohe with Agri managers * taking the initiative while updating an internal database of rural property listings and creating an online, dynamic visual representation of the Northland rural property situation * completing annual reviews of Commercial clients and general file maintenance * creating a dynamic, online map of ANZ clients in Kerikeri to assist with Business Banking and Commercial relationships

* As President I was the public face of the club, dealing with queries and comments and managing events, as well as maintaining internal cohesion and effectiveness. In my time as President, I: * established an Intermediate Training Course to complement the Beginners Course * managed and ran the fencing competition of SuperCity UniGames 2011 * managed our relationship with the UoA Recreation Centre, with whom we offer our training courses * ran our O-Week and Re-O-Week campaigns at the UoA

* ABB is a publicly-listed, multinational engineering firm based in Switzerland, with operations in over 100 countries. Specialising in power and automation technologies, ABB Group employs 140,000 people globally and has been established in NZ for over 80 years. * end-to-end recruitment across New Zealand * job briefs, advertising, interviews, recommendations, candidate management * advising managers on best practice * navigating ABB Group guidelines on recruitment * maintaining internal recruitment systems and databases * I remain responsible for my other activities (see below).

* ABB is a publicly-listed, multinational engineering firm based in Switzerland, with operations in over 100 countries. Specialising in power and automation technologies, ABB Group employs 140,000 people globally and has been established in NZ for over 80 years. - administration related to employee lifecycle, including generating new employment agreements and variations to contracts * maintaining and updating ABB employment packs * arranging pre-employment medicals, and maintaining paperwork and database for temp and contract staff - general HR Centre activities, including responding to enquiries from staff * tracking and performing monthly tasks * managing physical document storage, and purchase orders - HR masterdata maintenance and report generation (SAP) - general recruitment support, including scheduling interviews, conducting phone screens and reference checks - learning and development support, including scheduling and facilitating internal training * delivering training for monthly company inductions * delivering training for annual PDA processes

* Responsibilities included: * responding to requests for assessments of potential students, scheduling assessments * centre roster management * invoicing students and families, tracking payments, following up overdue accounts * student file maintenance (digital and hard copy) * stock ordering and replacement

* Responsibilities included: * assessing new students, developing individual programs in response to assessment outcomes and student/parent goals * remedial Maths and English tutoring (Year 3 to Year 9), focus on improvement of both skills and confidence * accelerate Maths and English tutoring (Year 3 to Year 9) * reassessment of current students, compiling reports to parents of students progress, achievements, and ongoing educational requirements * quickly developing trust with students, establishing a rapport for effective teaching and learning, ongoing support for students and families

MyHR is New Zealand's leading HR offering. Our combination of HR software and HR consultancy makes managing your people easy, time efficient and cost effective. I work at the sharp end of HR; helping clients pragmatically solve people problems with an eye to their legal risk and supporting managers to get the best from their team (and the worst OUT of their team). My responsibilities include: - onboarding new clients, reviewing their existing employment documents and policies and recommending changes, and supporting their ongoing use of the software. - coaching managers on a variety of employment relations issues, including recruitment, trial periods and terminations, restructures, performance management, disciplinaries, and dismissals. - managing HR processes with clients, preparing documentation to support disciplinaries and restructures, preparing initial responses to personal grievances, and advice around planning now and for the future of their people.

Activities and Societies: UoA Debating society, Auckland University Fencing, UoA F:SAE Team, Class representative 2009 and 2010