ZAPOPAN, Jalisco; November 24, 2022.- Among eight renowned American universities, the team from the Universidad Panamericana Campus Guadalajara of the Bachelor's Degree in Talent Management, won first place in the Purdue HR Case Competition & Conference 2022.
Purdue HR Competition
This competition recognizes that well-trained and dedicated human resources professionals can maximize the effectiveness of an organization's human capital for sustainable advantage in an increasingly competitive world. It is an opportunity for students to test their knowledge while sharing creative solutions with business leaders from companies recognized for human resources. In addition, the competition featured a graduate and undergraduate division.
The participating universities were: Indiana University, Purdue University, PennState, Brigham Young University, Texas A&M, Cornell, University of North Texas and Universidad Panamericana Campus Guadalajara.
Equipment preparation
The team began preparation in August 2022, the members were chosen under a competency-based selection process, in order to achieve a functional and compatible team, able to work for 3 months and overcome the inconveniences that they would undoubtedly have due to the daily coexistence. Those chosen should be willing to sacrifice weekends, family events, travel and also continue to perform 100% as students.
Based on the above, the team accepted the commitment, composed of ninth semester students: Laura Covarrubias López, Cristina Sevilla Aramiz; fifth semester, Ximena Tamayo Dominguez and Deolinda Lara Rosalopes, and Mariana Ramírez Sánchez from third semester. Supported by the director of the Talent Management career as their coach, Alberto Sevilla. Laura comments on what the competition consists of and how her experience was: "The competition consists of solving a case in one week, in our situation we only had six days, since we had to fly back on the seventh day.
"Our way of doing it was to divide the time in schedules thinking about the stages of the methodology to solve the problem; Reading the case, analysis of the facts, analysis tool, finding the root problem, possible solutions, risks and impact and finally, the economic part. At the beginning we felt very calm, but as time was running out, our nerves increased. We learned to respect time, to rest when necessary and to give our all when it was time to work," said Covarrubias.
Problem and solution
After more than 130 hours of preparation, the team declared itself ready to travel to Purdue University in West Lafayette Indiana. The problem of the case to be proposed in 6 days, was based on issues of attraction and selection of talent for the company GE Aerospace in its Indiana plant, a real situation that the company is going through and that must be solved through a proposal based on an analysis of the industry and company, diagnostic tool, problem identification, solution proposal with financial support and immediate viability, risk measurement, exposure and sale to managers-judges and HR managers.
"What I have experienced and what I have been taught in class is that companies are looking for soft skills; leadership, teamwork, and everything that goes along with building social skills," the student concluded.
The evaluating judges represented global companies such as Dormakaba, Trane Technologies, Wabash and GE Aerospace, as well as a Purdue executive.
The Universidad Panamericana congratulates and recognizes each member of the team for their effort, dedication and commitment, as well as their advisors, for their great support. We hope this is the first of many successes and thank them for putting the name of the institution on a high level. Congratulations!
