The Cornell HR Review announced that LER first-semester student, Francesca Brumm, has won top prize at the 7th Annual Student Essay Competition sponsored by General Electric, Shell, and Dell.
Students from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Cornell University submitted winning essays, with Francesca Brumm, MHRIR ‘16, garnering the first place prize for her essay, Telework is Work: Navigating the New Normal, which argues that telework is the next stage for employers, but they must continuously evaluate their policies. Second place for the competition went to Olivia Blanchard (Cornell MILR ‘16) for her essay titled Employee Privacy in Light of New Technologies: An Ethical and Strategic Framework. Saad Moheet (Cornell MILR ’16) took home third place with the essay It’s Important to Keep Flexing.
Francesca joined LER in January of this year, and will be interning at AbbVie in North Chicago this summer. She is the PepsiCo scholar for the May 2016 class.
Submissions for this essay contest were received from seven different universities in three countries. After a blind review process, the HR Review’s editorial board chose the competition’s top six. Winners were selected according to the combined scores of an independent panel of judges, which included David E. Williams from Shell, Cheryl Prahl from Dell, and Professor Brad Bell of Cornell University.
This year’s competition challenged students to respond to one of three prompts, which addressed such topics as the advantages and disadvantages of leadership programs, HR’s collection and use of employee data, and workplace flexibility. Prizes for the competition included $1000 for first place, $500 for second, and $250 for third.
Congratulations, Francesca!
