New course of the Master's Degree in Talent Selection and Management (UMA)

The personnel selection and talent management processes make up the core of Organizational Psychology. And no wonder: the human factor is essential for any company, its core. Without having the right workers, it is useless how many material resources are available: the projects will not be viable.

The Master's Degree in Talent Selection and Management at the University of Malaga (UMA) focuses on these two pillars of people management to train professionals adapted to the work context real.

The new course, which opens on October 23 at 5:30 p.m. in the Graduate Room of the Faculty of Psychology, also incorporates a novelty: the enriched talent profile and the use of new technologies, such as Machine Learning, Big Data or methodologies based on Blockchain.

What is the Master in Talent Selection and Management?

Those who want to specialize in Human Resources and Work and Organizational Psychology They have an interesting option in the Master's Degree in Talent Selection and Management at the University of Malaga. This postgraduate

allows you to become professional in everything that has to do with the creation and management of teams in the business context.

This is accomplished by combining two basic aspects of team building. On the one hand we find the selection of personnel, adjusting to the needs of the company, the capabilities of the candidates and the motivations of the latter. On the other hand, the creation of work contexts in which the well-being and inclusion of workers is stimulated, and that facilitate They develop their talents and choose the company of which they are part as a place in which to continue growing professionally and personally.

In this way, the Master's Degree in Talent Selection and Management is designed to train both in the entrance door processes and in the dynamics of adaptation and renewal of the organizational context so that those who contribute to the company choose to continue being part of it.

Thus, in its teaching plan we find topics such as the dynamics of leadership development, the use of different personnel selection interviews and other tools of selection such as the Assessment Center, conflict management, the creation of internal communication plans, the use of different types of incentives, and many more.

Its teaching team is made up of professionals with well-established careers and who work in companies as important as Leroy Merlin or El Corte Inglés: Human Resources Directors, CEOs, Heads of Training, experts in Law, etc., and also with the best teachers from the university field.

The novelties of this year

The development of new technologies has made it possible to develop useful tools both in the evaluation and selection of workers and in training and personal development initiatives.

Beyond offering techniques, strategies and tools to attract and enhance talent and keep it working in work teams, the The flexibility of new digital environments allows the creation of methods to adapt to very specific goals adapted to each company, either by exploring massive amounts of data through Big Data, using Machine Learning to create programs adapted to the motivations and goals of the worker, etc.

For this reason, the Master's Degree in Talent Selection and Management at the UMA introduces this new area of ​​work in the teaching plan. The person in charge of this recently created module is Alejandro González, founder and CEO of Taalentffy.

An excellent option to enter the labor market

The training in the management of people that we find in this Master offers us the possibility of entering be part of companies with very varied profiles, all of them in need of a constant flow of experts in the topic.

In the case of the Master's Degree in Talent Selection and Management at the University of Malaga, the passage through this professionalization program provides the added value of teaching methods and techniques to retain talent and take advantage of new technologies in the process, something that is often overlooked despite its positive impact on the well-being of workers and the reduction of costs in the business.

The Master faces its fifth edition with a labor insertion rate of its students higher than 70%. In addition to a very marked commitment to carrying out quality and long-term internships (100% of the students of the IV promotion managed to do paid internships).

None of this has gone unnoticed by the candidates for this new edition, who have tripled the number of places available. As its director Margarita Bravo, Professor at the University of Malaga, says, “Master students go to companies to learn, but the students of the Master's Degree in Talent Selection and Management contribute to the company from day one, you can tell they are different".

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