HR Generalist Cover Letter Example

21 days is our average time to fill a shop floor role at Jutland Food Products, because supervisors and I hold a weekly interview slot that never moves. I would like to set up the same routine at Skagerrak Food Group as your HR Generalist, where the shop floor is larger and the hiring comes in waves.

I support 260 employees on one site across hiring, onboarding, absence, contracts and employee questions. About 12 new starters a month begin with a first-week plan that their supervisor has seen in advance. Queries on pay, leave and contracts get an answer within one working day. I track absence for every team and hold a return-to-work talk within two days of each return, and each month I give the site manager figures on headcount, absence and turnover.

Skagerrak Food Group's summer peak is the reason this role appeals to me. Seasonal contracts mean many shop floor roles to fill quickly in a few weeks, and a fixed interview slot with supervisors is built for exactly that. I already work in food production, so shift patterns, hygiene induction and supervisors who cannot leave the line are part of my normal week. I began as an HR assistant at Aarhus Packaging, preparing offer letters for about 40 hires, and moved to generalist after taking on absence follow-up.

The one-page plan I use to run the weekly interview slot could be adapted to your summer hiring. Bringing a draft for one of your sites to the interview would show how it works, and I would like to hear which roles were hardest to fill last summer.