Michael Chang

Professional, analytical and solution-oriented are skills that characterizes me in the workplace.

I am motivated by the interaction between individuals in an office and being able to help other people advance in their career either through recruitment or employee development planning.

Experience with:
- Administrative work
- Recruitment
- Employee law
- Project Management
- Employee development

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Work Experience

January 2020 – Now

HR Generalist - INGKA Centers (IKEA)

Main responsibility: To enable the Digital Group Functions to focus on their core objectives, delivering to our People Strategy and business objectives, by providing HR administrative support in line with the Service Level Agreements.

Responsible for the following:

- Generate and deliver HR related reports from HRIS;

- Working with excel and HR Master data to create reports to management

- Review and improve internal ways of working and best practices

- Ensuring legal compliance

- Prepare and review employment contracts for new hire and international relocations

- Employee engagement & employer branding activities through our People & Culture team

- Develop and maintain tools such as HR related systems and templates in response to the business changes

- Updating and maintaining employee handbook

- Prepare and handle co-worker documents such as employment contracts and leave applications;

- Participate in HR projects and in the people yearly cycle;

- Resolve ad hoc HR requests

January 2017 – January 2020

HR Manager – Barona IT

Responsible for the management & HR for 32 employees. Recruiting from A-Z, salary, employment contracts, holiday, legal matters, absence and employee development & engagement, on & off boarding and salary reviews

- Results: Recruited our 32 employees, salary negotiations, employment contracts, development of employees, on & off boarding for our all employees

Responsible for guiding & supporting management regarding legal compliance, market research & labor laws, strategic objectives. Objective Key Results and performance management

Responsible For organizational development of Barona Denmark. This includes creating & implementing HR policies & procedures, employer branding, project management and OKR’s

Responsible for administrative work: Updating and maintaining HR systems and scheduled activities in our staffing system, payroll management & benefits

- Results: Implemented & maintained a HR employee database, setup a system for payroll and wrote an employee guidebook. Setup & implemented a HRIS and ATS system for the Danish office

Responsible for employee relations & development:

- Results: Developed employee’s competencies in order to take larger projects with more responsibility. Including HR cycle and salary regulations, satisfaction surveys and MUS. On & off boarding, negotiations.

Responsible for employer branding & employee engagement: Networking events, career fairs, blog posts, salary reviews, compensation & benefits and performance management

Responsible for conflict resolution, coordinate leave of absence, off boarding, HR data and drive change initiatives

Association New Dane, HR assistant, Jan 2015 ~ Sep 2015

Matching mentors with mentees in a nonproﬁt organiza2on. Was also responsible for interconnecting clients and experts from diﬀerent industries through our bi-monthly networking event and monthly educational courses for our mentors.
Moreover, I was responsible for the adver5sing, recrui5ng, screening and interviewing new mentors and interns for the company. Upda3ng CRM systems daily combined with experience with administrative support work for the project manager, through diﬀerent departments of the organization.
Developed my communica0ons skills both wri8en and orally and cross-culturally, management skills, a network of people in diﬀerent professions including business leaders, experience in project management.

Education

2015 – 2016 MBA - Management Department. National Taiwan University

Courses:

Business Ethics & Practice

International Business Strategy

Cross Cultural Communication

Gained the essential tools and skills to succeed in business while achieving a solid understanding of business and management principles and ethics combined with intercultural knowledge and experiences. Classes are taught using contemporary and authentic real-world learning tools and case studies.

GPA: 3.9

2014 – 2016 Msc. Human Resource Management. Copenhagen Business School

Gained the essential tools for the employee life cycle within HR. From recruiting, human resource develop-ment & motivation to redundancies. I have gained an insight, which makes me able to recruit externally and internally, organizational development, and employee development. Furthermore, I’ve learned to develop and execute personnel policies, motivate employees, and reward management and performance. Overall, I’ve learned to analyze the interaction between personnel, works tasks and management.

Language skills

English: Native

Chinese: Full professional fluency orally

Danish: Native

Swedish: Full professional fluency

Certifications

Cut-e an AON Company: Scales: Ability & Skills test, Shapes: Personality test, Views: Value test (assessment test)

Masterclass Management: Management Skills & Leadership Development Course - Master Certificate in Business Management