Rachel Wilson Rugelsjøen - Founder & MD of Level Up HR (working in some of the world's largest businesses and how to become one of the top percentile of HR professionals)

My guest this episode is Rachel Wilson Rugelsjøen who is the Founderand MD of Level Up HR, a HR consultancy helping businesses and HRfunctions to level up and get results through people who thrive.However, Rachel's back story is a truly fascinating one.Having done a Psychology degree and then a Masters in HRM, Rachel did aone-year study internship at Copenhagen Business School. Here she mether now husband and decided to try and get her first HR role in Norwayrather than returning to the UK. However, this was significantly morechallenging than she had anticipated but ultimately she got there.Eventually Rachel and her husband did relocate back to the UK and shewas headhunted for a Senior HR role with Merrill Lynch whilst stillrelatively early in her career. From there Rachel has gone on to workfor some huge, global organisations such as Barclays Capital, Cognizantand The Norwegian Oil Fund.Rachel shares some incredible insights during our conversation and sheis a truly inspirational HR professional. This one isn't to be missed!Support the show

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Welcome to Is This Room Free? In this podcast I will be talking to HR professionals and listening to the stories of their careers. I will be finding out about the journeys they have taken and what they learnt along the way. The purpose is to help others in the profession identify and understand the various paths available and take inspiration from my guest speakers. Whether you are someone who is looking to get that first step on the HR career ladder or an aspiring HR Director, I hope you get value from these conversations.