CHRM Newletter, April 2013

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CENTER FOR HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

2013 CHRM Highlights

April 2013

The year 2013 is off to an exciting start at the Center for Human Resource Management and the Master of Science in Human Resource Management program. Twenty-four of our students graduated in December. And once again, 100% of our full-time students (with US work authorization) found placement within a month of graduation-- 73% of those students are with our CHRM partner companies! A total of twenty-two MS students are on campus this spring semester. Thanks to our partner companies, we were able to feature a CHRM Spring Speaker Series. The Series incorporated speakers from our partner companies and provided additional, practical education for the students in certain important areas within the field of HR. A few more key activities are coming up this semester for our students, including a case competition at the Southwest Central Student SHRM Conference and the Finance-for-HR class. Within a month, all of our students will be off to their summer internships, most of them with our CHRM partners. Thank you all for your continued support and involvement with the Center and our MS program. All of our first-year students have secured summer internships. Sixteen of the twenty-one will work for CHRM partner companies. Additionally, we have recruited a class of forty students to enter the program next fall. We are pleased to report that we have successfully increased the size of the program while maintaining our high admission standards. The average GPA of the incoming class is 3.6, and the average test scores are at the 65th percentile on the verbal portion of the GRA/ GMAT, and 52nd percentile on the quantitative portion of the exams. These numbers are almost identical to those of our previous classes. The new students are from nine different states, and they have an average of seven months of work experience in Human Resources. We look forward to their arrival and to introducing them to our partner companies in early September.

February 20 MS-HRM students attended a lunch-and-learn seminar led by Mark Wojcik, Former VP of HR for Shell Qatar. Mark discussed International and Global HR, a topic of interest to many students in the MS-HRM program. Mark shared his experiences leading HR teams in Shell’s headquarters in The Hague, Netherlands, in a new pipeline build in Sakhalin, Russia, and in a new country entry in The Pearl, Qatar. Valuable insight was also given into best HR practices when working overseas as well as beneficial advice for careers in HR. After Mark’s presentation, the students engaged in a question-and-answer session with Mark and Frank Krekeler (from the Houston Shell office) to learn more about the growing demands for Global Teams and HR roles.

In this issue: Guest speakers from Lockheed Martin, Marathon Oil, and Raytheon. Page 2.

Guest speaker from Devon Energy, GE Networking Session, and Dr. Schleicher’s Organizational Behavior class. Page 3.

Above: Shell’s Mark Wojcik and Frank Krekeler enjoy a laugh with student Katherine Jacoby Below: Mark Wojcik points at a map of Sakhalin Island, where he worked for Shell


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