


Cecilie Munthe
Creative HR Enthusiast
Founder / Owner / CEO
Phone:
+47 988 68 438
Email:
Address:
4015 Stavanger
1369 Stabekk
5003 Bergen
A little about me
I'm an HR-nerd with 20+ years international experience, from both private and public sectors, who is passionate about developing potential, knowledge-sharing and positive relationships among leaders and employees. I combine evidence-based tools, a marketing perspective and a genuine love for people, to lift employer branding, recruiting and leadership development. These tools can also be used to solve challenges with sick-leave, performance and difficult personell cases.
The goal is to create a better work environment, where we make eachother better, well-being increases - and the bottom line increases as a result.
Experience
Where I have been
What I have done
What I have learned
Kaefer Energy
February - April 2025
May - November 2022
Honeywell
May 2023 - Nov 2024
Regional HR Partner - Coaching managers and employees. Continue to build a performance culture, link reward and reccognition to increase performance. Predict and identify ongoing and future capacities, incl. talent development, organizational design, performance management, and planning resources. Working with HR centers to deliver on compensation, organizational development, strategic work to retain talent and addressing current and future needs while ensuring a diverse and global workforce. Drive and implement Honeywell HR procedures & compliance with laws and regulations. Building relationships, participating in internal investigations and administrating everything relating to employment law. Predict, plan and implement HR activities. Sick leave follow-up for everyone with a foreign manager. Understanding of the businesses, matrix- and silo organization. Understand and use techology and data to improve HR processes. Implement positive employee relation-strategies, show awareness of external markets, climate and activity, to assist leadership in making balanced decisions.
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Systems: SAP, MS Office 365, Sharepoint
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Diverse communication
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Setting boundaries for myself and colleagues, due to extreme workload
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Time management in a hectic environment
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Planning larger event (70+)
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Building culture og relationships with employees, who experienced a closed “HR door” before me
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Strategic use of ‘office politics’
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How to lead processes, initiatives og change
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Initiate development and improvement of processes
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How matrix-organizations, silo-organizing and at times cumbersome processes work IRL
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How important it is to stay true to my own values
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Salary negotiations as employer
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Influencing decision makers
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Identify processes that aren’t working
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Analyzing KPIs/data
HR Consultant - 7 month temp assignment in 2022 to get back into HR, extended to 7 months. Recruiting of operators for offshore work (full-cycle), but also had various tasks, like sick-leave.
Brought back in 2025 to take the top off their recruiting.
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Systems: ProPeople, iCore, ProArc, TalenTech/WebCruiter
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Offshore rotation and calculating pay/hours, vacation days, flex time, etc.
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How operation side of oil industry works!
A2G
May - June 2025
March 2021 - April 2022
NAV
October 2008 - October 2021
Fannie Mae
January - April 2007
Job Coach - Coached people with various challenges to enter the workforce! Created relationships between job-seeker and employer and worked to find the perfect match. Believing that everyone fits in somewhere was very important. Good at making accomodations and finding the right solutions for participants - and colleagues. Used Supported Employment methodology.
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Got to contribute to writing a tender before starting, based on my knowledge
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Led participants through the job search process
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Coaching participants in different ways, adjusting to their needs
Advisor / Job Coach - During my 13 years with NAV, I have gained extensive knowledge of government financial support systems (disability, sick-leave, etc.), regulatory administration, and guiding individuals through various processes and challenges. My primary focus was on follow-up services, and I particularly enjoyed my role as a Job Coach. I facilitated internal training and development and was responsible for quality assurance of work ability assessments. Was a union representative for many years, giving me in-depth experience with labor law, workplace processes and conflict resolution.
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The importance of phrasing in communication with others
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Led recipients of benefits through several processes
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Clear dialogue solves many entaglements and is preventative
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Coaching in different ways (different needs)
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Evaluating others’ written work
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MI - Motivating Interview, method used in psychology
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AML Working Environment Act
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Salary negotiations
Associate Recruiter - Recruiting strategy, employer branding og analysis. Recruited middle-management and specialists based on market needs and data analytics, with a focus on effective customer service. Full-cycle recruiting, including sourcing for candidates, selection, interviews and onboarding.
Contributed to improving recruiting processes and implementation of streamlined solutions.
Built relationships with managers to ensure accuracy in recruiting and long-term talent development.
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How strategic recruiting affects organizational development
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​Corporate inner workings and practical applications
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Office politics and how to navigate in a large organizations.
MITRE
October 2004 - Dec 2006
Citibank
August - October 2004
HR Coordinator - Long-term planning of talent development and strategic recruiting. Full-cycle recruiting, including organizing interviews and employment offers. Developed and led training-programmes for administrative personell. Contributed to optimilization of internal processes and effective use of systems and data. Responsible for coordinating hiring processes for cleared candidates. Worked with strategic employer branding and development of recruiting-models. Contributed to proccess improvement through implementation of HR-analytic tools.
HR Consultant - Ensured compliance with employment law, personell documentation and reporting.
Systematized personell files to ensure compliance with internal and external demands.
Organized and updated CSIS-files, including follow-up of background checks.
Ensured compliance with Affirmative Action-plans and Title VII-specifications for job postings and candidate files. Coordinated HR-processes in an international organization with strict compliance demands. Updated and distributed regional Citibank phone list to improve internal communication.
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How to recruit for difficult-to-fill positions
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Employer branding as a part of the HR strategy
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Risk-based HR-strategy and planning.
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Complexities of strategic talent management.
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In-depth knowledge of employment law compliance.
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Effective handling of HR-administrative processes.
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Employment law and HR-administration in regulated organizations.
Lockheed Martin
June - August 2004
Rising Star Telecom
February - December 2003
HR Assistant / FSO Assistant - Strategic recruitment and talent management. Coordinated candidate flow, paperwork and offer packages. Registered information for international employees (Expatriate employee information).
Organized and systemized personell files to increase effeciency and compliance. Handled recruiting processes for highly cleared roles. Implemented HR-systems for better talent management and candidate flow.
HR Administrative Assistant - Building the HR function from scratch with HR Director. Organizational development and strategic HR. Developed employee handbook and implemented guidelines for talent development and training. Led HR-projects and training with a focus on ethical practices and culture-development. Ensured compliance with labor laws and best practices. Optimized processes through databases and Excel-reporting, management support through HR-analytics. Led HR- and work environment cases with a focus on diplomacy and ethics.
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HR processes in a high-security industry.
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Technical insight into HR-systems.
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HR-strategy in security-critical industries.
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Long-term development of organizational strategy.
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Multicultural communication.
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Change management and taking initiative.
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Handling of complex employee relations and challenges.
Education
I have always had a great love of learning, and I will continuously work to gain more knowledge. From the sun-soaked campus of Hawaii Pacific University to an in-depth exploration of organizational psychology at BI Norwegian Business School in Norway, I have built an academic foundation that blends a global outlook, a marketer’s eye, and evidence-based HR expertise. This combination equips me to turn people-centric initiatives into measurable, strategic, and value-adding results for my clients.
2021-2024
Executive Master of Management
BI Business School
Interaction & Leadership - organizational development & organizational psychology, 2021/2022​
HRM - evidence-based HR, strategic HR, HR & innovation, innovative HR, leadership & HR, 2022/2023
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Performance in organizations - quality in relationships, motivation, culture, experimenting & development, 2023/2024
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Other things I learned:
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Personality - Big Five
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Psykological safety
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How to handle being extremely uncomfortable
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Experimenting with processes
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Prototyping processes
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Evidence-based HR
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Planning larger projects with other students
2023
Employer Branding
HR Norge
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Employer branding process from start to ‘end’
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ROI calculation
2018
Supported Employment
OsloMet
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Dived deeper into relationship theory - 3 cups of tea
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Leadership theory
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Re-learned academic writing
2000-2004
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration
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Associate of Science
Hawaii Pacific University
BSBA in Marketing and Associate in Management
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Proud to have completed two degrees simultaneously, while being pregnant and having a newborn/toddler
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Took classes in compressed semesters (2 weeks)
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Took stand-alone exams while working full-time and with a baby
Courses & Conferences
2025
DEI
Diversity at work by Big Enough Global, Kimiya Sadji
2025
Råbra conference
Positive deviation notices, put systemized, by Marianne Nordhov
2023
HR Norge
Employment law conference
2020
NAV
Qualityassurance
2019
Inclusion for people with Asperger, ADHD & Tourettes
NAV/NevSom
2019
OsloMet
Inclusivity conference
2019
NAV/Stian Midtgård
Motivational Interview
2018
NAV
Job coach training
2018
Samfunnsviterne
Local salary negotiation conference
2018
Samfunnsviterne
Union representative government (refresh)
2018
Samfunnsviterne
Influencing decisionmakers
2018
Samfunnsviterne
Employment law
2018
Samfunnsviterne
Negotiation technique
2018
NAV
How to prevent conflict through better communication
2017
Samfunnsviterne
Union representative government
2016
NAV
Using enterpreters
2015
NAV
Modia - super user
2012
NAV/Stian Midtgård
Motivational Interview
2012
Arena: Assessment of work ability & activity plan
NAV
2011
NAV
Administrative law
2009
NAV
Disability/unemployment benefit §11
2009
NAV
Legal method in case work



