Academic Statement of Purpose:
Please use the Academic Statement of Purpose to describe, within 1000 words: (1) your academic interests, (2) your academic background, preparation, and
training, including any relevant professional experiences, (3) your reasons for pursuing graduate studies in this specific program, and (4) your professional
goals.
Statement of Project (capstone):
If admitted, you will be required to develop and implement an HR project in your organization. Your project must focus on HR actions designed to address an
identified, strategic business challenge or opportunity. Examples might include growth, globalization, innovation, competitive pressures, total quality, tapping
new markets. The business challenge/opportunity should have implications for the workforce and for HR processes/practices for which you can develop an
intervention.
(1) your academic interests,
Understanding HR landscope in different industries from practitioners and what problems others are facing and how they are tackling them
Actioning strategy and by producing organizational structures to support desired outcomes
Applying analytics and to predict behavior and prescribe actions
Problem solving – solutions by taking large scale problems, breaking them into smaller components, creating plans to solve each component
(2) your academic background, preparation, and training, including any relevant professional experiences,
resume attached
(3) your reasons for pursuing graduate studies in this specific program, and
Spent ~13 years in management consulting solving issues by working through client Organizations, processes and technology
Spent ~3 years in an HR leadership role
Would like to gain insight on how others are tackling similar issues and where what best in class looks like
Creating a better network of in-house practitioners (non-consultants)
(4) your professional goals
Move HR to become more analytics based by enforcing employee feedback, KPI based success measures…
Instill a higher level of collaboration with HR
Move HR towards a truly strategic partner of the organization
Budgeting process based on org design, Counter Offers for only highest rated employees, efficient talent Acquisition operations, Hiring in locations (HUBs vs. High cost locations) based on strategic footprint goals
Rotate through leadership roles within HR including CHRO roles for a country / bu