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5 Tips About What You Can Learn from FS as a HR Student

15/07/201514/07/2015 Zoltán Varga Leave a comment

Lots of HR students struggle with the problem of starting their career. There are several job opportunities for them but it’s hard to win the best ones against those who have already done traineeships during their studies. Also, a traineeship job is often the most boring thing you can imagine with a high level of monotony.

This is where Formula Student comes in. For a HR student, it can be an awesome playground, since in most cases, there aren’t any HR practice at all in the FS teams. You can try new trends in team development, such as gamification for performance management, or leadership trainings, or whatever you think can improve the team. The list of opportunities are almost infinite. Here are a few tips to start: (more…)

5 Ways a HR Student Could Help Your Team

10/07/201514/07/2015 Zoltán Varga Leave a comment

Have you ever wondered why teams don’t focus on HR besides recruiting? The chances you haven’t are high since you’re more of an engineer than a manager. It’s clear that the team only exists for its members: to create an exciting opportunity to learn way more than just sitting in the classroom. But are you doing everything to attract, keep and motivate the most important resource of your team – its members? (more…)

6 Leadership Mistakes FS Leaders Commit

25/06/201525/06/2015 Zoltán Varga Leave a comment

As a newly-became leader in your beloved team, you already have a lot of ideas how to be the best-ever team/subteam leader. However, as a university student, you likely don’t have enough (or any at all) experience in the field of leading people. So during the season one of your most important tasks will be to learn a lot about it. Start with the mistakes of others. Here are the most common six from the amateur leaders of the non-profit world. (more…)

5 Tips About What Your Sponsors Want

08/06/201507/06/2015 Zoltán Varga Leave a comment

As I mentioned, the money is one of the core problems of FS teams (as an organization working like a non-profit). Spending it wisely almost as challenging as earning it. For now, let’s talk about the latter by my experiences as a fellow sponsorship-associate. (more…)

How to Keep Your Members Motivated

01/06/201507/06/2015 Zoltán Varga Leave a comment

Every FS team is familiar with the problem of tasks piling up near the deadlines. The core members are there to work all the time, but it’s just about 10-20% of the total headcount. The rest of them probably are involved with something ‘more’ important (school, family, girlfriend, dog, beer etc.) instead of being in the workshop, which is nice to a certain level, but the car won’t design and build itself. There always will be more important things to do for the lazy/unmotivated people. (more…)

How to Engage More Members for Your Team

28/05/201507/06/2015 Zoltán Varga Leave a comment

An FSAE team works like a nonprofit organization, as I mentioned in a previous post. So do member (volunteer) recruiting. Your most valuable assets are the teammates who design and build the car, get the resources and operate the team. If you have time and money to engage more sponsors and donors, you have to focus at least that much on recruiting members. So here come 3 tips on how to make it easier. (more…)

What to Measure in a Formula Student Team?

07/05/201507/06/2015 Zoltán Varga Leave a comment

During the years in our FSAE team, we encountered a huge problem which was (and still is) pretty hard to solve. We could measure the car in a huge number of ways, but not the team itself. So we tried to set up a measurement system to get a more complete picture of our work.

Where have we started? (more…)

Which Culture Type Are Your Team in?

02/05/201507/06/2015 Zoltán Varga Leave a comment

Every Formula Student team has its problems thinking theirs are totally unique with no solution at all. In turn the truth is they simply look for them at the wrong places. When you get familiar with the literature of non-profit organizations, you will meet almost all of the challenges of your team. First, let’s see the problems caused by the changes in the organizational cultures of a naturally growing amateur team. (more…)

The 3 Core Problems of Formula Student Teams

01/05/201524/06/2015 Zoltán Varga 2 Comments

Every Formula Student team works as a non-profit organization with all of the benefits and drawbacks as well.
These teams are formed by students, young amateurs, who participate for totally free and only by their passion. Passion for racing, or passion for learning, it depends by the specific person. This is our core statement, this will effect all of our future posts. (more…)

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