Company: Shell Canada

Position: HR Generalist at Shell

Length of employment: one year and nine months

Degree: Bachelor of Commerce in Human Resources Management at Concordia University, Montreal. Member of the institute for Co-operative Education.

What drew you to your current field? 
I'm a real people-person, and HR provides the opportunity to work with individuals from many different backgrounds, cultures, and levels of work experience. I like the variety of different career paths you can pursue as an HR professional.

How did you find your current position?
As a co-op student, there were various opportunities available to me for summer internships, but Shell stood out as a top employer as I knew it had a reputation for providing meaningful internship opportunities and developing new hires.

I was offered a full-time, graduate role upon successful completion of that internship and have since completed three additional assignments in HR.  I worked in compensation, policy, and then moved into a generalist role in the heavy oil business. My current role is in recruitment as a graduate recruiter and internships advisor, which is my last assignment within the graduate program. 

Tell us a bit about your responsibilities. 
In compensation, I focused on pay benchmarking as well as the annual merit and bonus cycle. In policy, I took on a lot of project work, such as the integration of the various Albian Sands and Shell Canada's policies. In my generalist role, my main focus was providing a wide range of day-to-day HR support to individuals and managers, as well as analytical support and coordination of various HR processes and programs. I have two areas of focus in my current role: the first is on graduate recruitment for all commercial disciplines here at Shell, [which is] focused on attracting top students into our commercial internship and graduate programs; I am also the internships advisor for all interns at Shell in Canada. This role keeps me busy ensuring the interns' experience, projects, and assessments are running smoothly. 

What is the most challenging aspect of your position?
The most challenging aspect of my current role is keeping up with the business of the fall recruitment cycle while also focusing on my responsibilities as an internships advisor. Luckily, I have a very supportive team who are always there to help when I need them! 

What is the most rewarding part of your job?
Being part of the Shell Graduate Program, I've had the opportunity to work in various areas of HR, all of which have provided me with valuable and rewarding learning experiences. The most rewarding part of my current role is offering candidates a job at Shell! I've also had the opportunity to build many relationships, both internally and externally, and I find this a very rewarding aspect of my work.    
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