Michael Szymik

In my position as Junior Manager People & Culture, I am responsible for Finlex' Talent Acquisition. My responsibilities are managing and designing the entire recruitment process and filling Finlex' vacancies by active sourcing of potential candidates, creating and advertising job openings, etc. Beside my main task, I support experienced colleagues in the areas of HR Management and Talent Development gathering valuable experience in these areas of Human Resources.

During my time as Working Student in People & Culture at Finlex, I acted as interim Talent Acquisition Manager and was able to gain valuable experience in many areas of Human Resources including Recruiting, Talent Development, HR Management & Onboarding. Due to the good results I achieved during my time as interim Talent Acquisition Manager, thankfully, I had been offered a position as Junior Manager People & Culture with a focus on Talent Acquisition which lead to my next step at Finlex.

The Heuser GmbH is a vending machine company specialized on offering full-service solutions for employee catering. During my time at Heuser GmbH I was responsible for documenting cash income, managing cash flows and balances as well as assigning and providing change money to the service employees including the control of the proper balance at the end of each week. Additionally, I helped increasing the efficiency and clarity of the cash management by digitizing and optimizing related processes.

As a self-employed cold-calling canvasser I arranged appointments for sales talks at decision-maker level for various industries. In order to successfully arrange those appointments for my clients, I did demand assessments which I used to research and preclassify proper leads. Before setting up the appointment, I prequalified the leads for my clients even further by conducting brief demand assessments with their potential clients during the first phone call.

Personal training and coaching for health, fitness and performance with a holistic approach that includes training, nutrition, sleep, habits, goal setting as well as psychological and social needs to ensure sustainable and realistic goal achievements and lifestyle changes.

Internship at the institute of biophysics in the research group of Prof. Dr. Jens Bredenbeck researching intra-molecule signal transduction. Final grade: 1,0