Community Meet & Greet 🤝

Hey I'm Jordan and I am your Chief People Officer here at Bluewave Group a company based in the UK&IE.  Although my company is in the UK and Ireland, I am based in France myself 

I studied at Ulster University in Human Resource Management with a Diploma in Professional Practice in addition to Associate CIPD Membership. Currently I am working through my CPD by completing my Master of Human Resource Management to be accredited my MCIPD.

In my free time when I'm not working, I am the Commissioner for People & Inclusion at Scouts NI and leader of a Scout Group. I am an avid watersports enthusiast and Kayak Instructor.

Something that most people don't know about me is that I am a real explorer, foodie and loving going to different places in the world to experience the variety and range of different cultures.

Hi all! My name is Willem, HR Project Manager for Basilea, a small biopharma company based in Basel, Switzerland.

As HR Project Manager I am - believe it or not - responsible for projects across our HR landscape. I manage our annual compensation and performance processes, including all the reporting to the Board and shareholders in all matters related to executive compensation. However, these processes tend to start around October and run until the AGM in the spring. In the period between those cycles I run projects in whichever area it is most needed - be it operational and finding ways that we can do our HR tasks quicker (think administration) or better (think employee experience initiatives), or strategic (implementing our new values, rethinking performance management and employee development process).

Because the projects I am on are so diverse, it’s also tricky to point out specific parts of HR that particularly interest me. It’s great to see the amount of attention that our discipline is getting from the world - big questions around “new ways of working” and ways in which we can make work a place where everyone has the ability to succeed, regardless of their backgrounds or characteristics.

I use Personio a lot, but primarily in finding ways to make life for my colleagues in more operational roles (payroll and recruiting) easier. My favorite feature is the onboarding checklist and as I have said endlessly to anyone who cares to listen, I think that the mechanisms of the checklists are brilliant and can be applied to so many more processes than just on- and offboarding. Hopefully that day will come soon!

My reasons for joining the community are twofold. Firstly, because Personio is such a big part of how we do things within the team, it only makes sense to want to be as close as possible to the company and be the first to hear about new developments and get the chance to shape those developments. Secondly, because it’s always nice to interact with my peers at other companies, but specifically the ones that decided to sign up to the Personio community. You all tend to come from smaller companies and face similar challenges and opportunities, and the fact that you are Personio customers show that you are actively seeking ways to - despite your size - maximize what your team is able to accomplish. And not just that, but Personio as a company tends to be quite young and fun, and that energy and enthusiasm is frequently found in the community as well. I’m sure that there’s a different community for HR professionals who lack that enthusiasm and fun factor (SuccessFactors maybe?), but I’m glad to be a part of this one 

And a fun fact about myself to leave you with: before entering my “serious” career I took on a variety of odd jobs as a student, the oddest one probably being a cheese tester: they tend to pick younger people for this as their palate is more sensitive. My palate was not so sensitive I suppose, as I thought all the cheese I tried tasted great and I got a call the next morning to tell me I didn’t have to bother showing up for my second day on the job.

Hello dear community,

My name is Oli. I am working in the HR department of Engel & Völkers Headquarters in Hamburg since 2013. Currently, I am the team leader of our strategy and project team, which has the main focus on digitalisation and the implementation of New Work. Personio plays a central role for us in the HR Core area. In particular, workflow management and automation are current focus topics for us, along with KPI control and BI.

From the community I hope for creative impulses for the implementation of challenging aspects as well as joint initiatives for the continuous improvement of the jointly used Personio system.

Briefly about me, or rather my vita: I was born and grew up in Kiel, on the Baltic Sea, where others go on holiday. After studies and internships in Berlin, Krakow, Cologne and Prague, I returned home to Northern Germany. Today I live with my wife and our cat Hugo right outside the gates of Lübeck. From 2005 to 2012 I worked for an international bank in various HR roles (HRM, PE/OE, HRIS, projects). After a several months' trip to South America, I found my current professional home at Engel & Völkers. Alongside this, I qualified as a coach.

Outside of work, I recharge my batteries by running and motorcycling as well as travelling the world. Fun fact: I love to eat french fries with vanilla milkshake after a marathon and don't understand why everybody else is so keen on a beer afterwards.

I look forward to discussing all HR and Personio topics.

Hey Folks,

My name is Tom and I work on the People Experience team here at Teamwork. I was a generalist/partner but I have moved into a People Insights Specialist role focusing on reporting/dashboards, analytics and linking those to business outcomes. Personio will play a big role in us having the right data in the right time. The automation of workflows (onboarding in particular as we are growing quite quickly) should release substantial amounts of time back to the PeopleEx team.

I live in a great part of Ireland called Kerry. I originally studied business at undergrad and then moved into HR a few years ago and returned to college for my HR Masters. I always have had an interest in data and after my Masters, I began to study People Analytics. I went back to college to study data analytics. In my spare time I code (Python), I read (current affairs, HR, I/O Psy mostly) and chase the perfect espresso. I love to surf and I am lucky enough to never be too far from a beach.

Really interesting seeing everyone’s stories,

Have a good Monday

Tom

Hello everyone!

I'm Marc, from Munich and am a new colleague of @Daniele here at Personio, working as a Community Manager.

I joined the team on October 1 and am still excited about what this role will entail and look forward to supporting everyone here in the community. In addition to supporting you, our customers, I am responsible for creating engaging content, especially explainer videos. So stay tuned for future updates!

Before joining the community team, I was already an Implementation Manager at Personio for 2 years, so I know a lot about the tool, especially how to set up Personio.

My favorite part in Personio is the recruiting module. I've always enjoyed helping our clients set up different processes, and I've loved seeing the first applications pop up in Personio!

In addition to my role at Personio, I'm a real tech enthusiast and spend a lot of my money on the latest smart home devices (often more money than I should ).

I'm very much looking forward to connecting with you all!

Wish you all a great day!
Marc

Hi everyone - sending you all good Friday afternoon vibes from the UK. 

I am CPO for an exciting and innovative drug discovery automation Company called Arctoris. We are currently expanding in the US so are busy hiring and onboarding lots of lovely new team members.  

Desperately hoping not to sound like a princess, but I have high expectations on the development of Personio!  Having come from a corporate enterprise background (PeopleSoft/ Workday) I have to say that I do love the custom features of Personio.   Unlike @Pau above I am not a techy so apologies if my requests seem basic!

Excited to see the Performance and Development elements evolve.  Can’t wait for Pento integration too!

Have a good weekend!  Sally

Hi everyone! 

My name is Selina and you’ve probably seen my face now and then in some community articles. My home is in the beautiful Fichtelgebirge (Upper Franconia), but I have been living in Munich for six years now.  

I started as a Community Manager at Personio 2,5 years ago, built up our German Community together with @Thomas and laid the foundation for this Community. My main task is to develop the German Community further and to support you and our German customers together with @Daniele, @Lena and @Marc. What I love most about my job is the interaction with so many different people and that I can work very creatively.

Something funny and personal about myself: 

I can't whistle and olives are inedible for me.
I also dream of writing a book one day, I got my sailing license last year and since then I've been allowed to sail the seven seas - but before that happens I still have to practice a lot.

Looking forward to get to know more of you! 

Hi everyone,
It’s Wednesday so let’s start it off by Welcoming our new Community members who joined us last week!

@sander, @PaWe, @Alberto Alemanni, @nyris.people, @sarah.vatter, @Kelly, @NNAM, @Maribel Alvarez, @Brown Cow, @Emma, @emmangmonica, @TomPilgrem, @jenni, @cvasiliu, @Irena Majdancic, @Sadina Mustafić, @Gabi, @GizemBilim, @Jenni Lehtola, @thomas-frmwrk, @YourAudience, @mmurphy, @Steve.Wyman.

Quite a mighty group this time, it’s great to have all of you on board, along with so many other HR Professionals  

Let’s not be strangers - say hello below!  

Don’t know where to start? Try one of our introduction questions:

Sunny greetings,
Daniele

Hi everyone 

I’m Daniel, a new product manager at Personio, working on a brand-new Goals experience for the Performance & Development add-on. I joined just under two months ago in May. It’s great to see there are already lots of questions and ideas around the existing goals functionality on this community, which I’m having a lot of fun digging through .

About me: I’m 29 years old, English, and I’m working out of Personio’s lovely Amsterdam office . I live in Den Haag with my fiancée and our cat Luna .

Fun fact: I have quite some background as a product manager for community products, so community is very close to my heart .

Hoi Chantal (@CDShutters)
Thank you so much for introducing yourself in the Community, it’s so nice to hear from you I also lived in Sydney and Shanghai for a short time. Never been to Bali though, I would love to go one day!

I see you've joined the Netherlands Community group, that is a great place to interact with fellow Personio users in your country and exchange best practices. We will also be planning a customer event in Amsterdam this year, i'll make sure to send you a reminder in case you're interested!

I am aiming to make the Community experience even more useful for our members, so I would love to speak to you in order to get to know you and better understand your needs. Would you be interested for a 20 minute coffee chat next week? If that's the case, you can choose a timeslot here.

Groetjes,
Daniele

Hello Personio Community!

I am Agathe, I joined Swile in March as Senior People Ops, we are a French WorkTech company with a Brazilian office in Sao Paulo.

I am in charge of all People tools and People processes at Swile, they sometimes call “Madame Personio”.

About me: I am 30 years old, I live in Paris, I have an engineering and industrial design degree, I have worked in companies ranging from 2 employees (me & my cofounder) to 80.000+ people (L’Oréal). I like all people-related topics.

Fun fact: Although I am French, I like to eat my cheese with some ketchup. (If you try, you will agree it’s underrated).

Hello,

My name is Tatiana and I’m in charge of HR at a wonderful Norwegian scale up Globus AI!

When I joined Globus more that 2 years ago I looked for a simple tool to store and manage information about 35 employees.

I do love simplisity of the product and I’m excited about new features and improvements!

The most recent insite - hire date that is visible when you add acural policy. Love it!

I adore simplicity and automation and Personio helps our HR team with that, but I would love to see more automation in the future!

Have a lovely week, everyone!