Penn State Students Earn Honors In "HR Games"
Penn State Students Earn Honors In "HR Games"
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA-Two teams of undergraduate students from Penn State's Smeal College of Business Administration and the College of the Liberal Arts placed second and third in the recent regional competition of the annual "HR Games."
The Human Resources Collegiate Competition consists of a series of one-day matches between teams of up to three students representing various Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) student chapters at colleges and universities around the nation. The game is modeled after the popular television game show Jeopardy and student teams answer human resource questions similar to those found on the Professional in HR Certification Exam. The Area 1 competition - which was held at Slippery Rock University on April 5-6 -- included New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New England.
Two teams representing Penn State competed in the competition, finishing second and third behind Cornell University. Both Penn State teams faced each other in the semifinals, with the "White Team" edged out the "Blue Team" in the semifinals.
The "White Team" included:
- Jeremy Helsel (Team Captain), a senior majoring in management with the HR option from Bedford, PA.
- Stephanie Spencer, a junior majoring in management with the HR option from Port Allegany, PA.
- Jonathan Jurewicz, a senior majoring in labor and industrial relations from Hazelton, PA.
The "Blue Team" included:
- Melanie Sliwinski (Team Captain), a senior majoring in management with an HR option from Troy, PA.
- Lydia King, a senior majoring in management with an HR option from Brooklyn, New York.
- Julie McAllister, a senior majoring in crime, law, and justice, and majoring in labor and industrial relations from Downingtown, PA.
Karen Jansen, assistant professor of management in Penn State's Smeal College of Business, served as coach for the teams.
REPORTERS & EDITORS: For more information, please contact Wyatt DuBois in the Smeal College of Business Media Relations Office at 814-863-3798 or wed112@psu.edu.
Penn State's Smeal College of Business offers highly ranked undergraduate, MBA, executive MBA, Ph.D., and executive education opportunities to more than 5,500 students at all levels. Featuring academic departments of accounting, finance, marketing, insurance and real estate, management, and supply chain and information systems, the college is also home to major research centers such as the Center for Supply Chain Research, the Institute for the Study of Business Markets, the Center for Digital Transformation, the Farrell Center for Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the Center for Global Business Studies, and the Center for the Management of Technological and Organizational Change.
