New course of the Master of Selection and Talent Management (UMA)

The Master of Selection and Talent Management of the UMA incorporates new contents.

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

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

The new course, which opens on October 23rd at 17:30 in the Sala de Grados of the Faculty of Psychology.The Master's Degree in Talent Selection and Management, also incorporates a new feature: 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's Degree in Selection and Talent Management?

Those who want to specialize in Human Resources and Psychology of Work and Organizations have an interesting option in the Master's Degree in Selection and Talent Management at the University of Malaga. This postgraduate allows professionalization in everything that has to do with the creation and management of teams in the business context..

This is achieved 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 that stimulate the well-being and inclusion of workers, and that allow them to develop their talents and choose the company they are part of as a place where they can continue to grow professionally and personally.

In this way, the Master's Degree in Selection and Talent Management is designed to train both in the entry door processes and in the dynamics of adaptation and renovation of the organizational context so that those who contribute to the company choose to remain 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 selection tools 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 important companies such as Leroy Merlin or El Corte Inglés. 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 environment.

What's new this year

The development of new technologies has made it possible to develop useful tools for the evaluation and selection of in the evaluation and selection of employees as well as in training and personal development initiatives.

Beyond offering techniques, strategies and tools to capture and enhance talent and keep it working in work teams, the flexibility of the 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 UMA's Master's Degree in Selection and Talent Management introduces this novel 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 people management that we find in this Master offers us the possibility of joining companies with very varied profiles, all of them in need of a constant flow of experts in the field.

In the case of the Master in Selection and Talent Management of the University of Malaga, the passage through this professionalization program brings 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 welfare of workers and cost reduction in the company.

The Master's program faces its fifth edition with a job placement rate of over 70%.. In addition to a very strong commitment to quality and long-term internships (100% of the students of the IV promotion were able to carry out paid internships).

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

More information about this master's degree is available by clicking here.