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Julie Hirsch
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Company: RDF Media.
Interviewee: Julie Hirsch.
Job Title: HR Director.
The Subject: TV production company
RDF’s human resources department is able to keep track
of its complex workforce using new software.
PERSONAL FILE
NAME: Julie Hirsch.
BACKGROUND: As RDF Media’s
HR director, Julie has been responsible for building
up the new department from scratch, implementing systems,
policies, procedures, benefits and pension schemes.
She joined RDF in January 2004 after a career break
of nearly four years, during which time she did some
freelance HR consultancy.
From June 1995 to May 2000, she was
European HR vice president at Turner Broadcasting, responsible
for the HR function at all the company’s TV network
business operations across Europe – including Cartoon
Network, Turner Classic Movies, TNT and CNN.
During this time, the company went
through major change, including the merger with Time
Warner and the closure of entire business operations
in London, Paris and Amsterdam. Julie worked with senior
management and outside legal counsel to plan these closures
and was responsible for consultation with and notification
to employees, and negotiation of redundancy packages.
From August 1993 to June 1995, she
was a personnel manager at the BBC and before that,
from February 1988 to December 1992, personnel manager
at TV-am. She began her career in 1984 as a graduate
trainee in Staffordshire County Council’s personnel
department before moving on to become divisional personnel
officer at Willis Faber plc.
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