Master's students take part in annual We Can Work It Out Consultancy Challenge
Over 100 ULMS Master’s students recently took part in the 2022 ‘We Can Work It Out’ (WCWIO) Consultancy Challenge.
The challenge took place over four weeks as students worked alongside a range of local, national and international employers. Whilst working in teams, students were challenged to come up with solutions to real-life business problems such as:
- Generating strategies to manage some of the environmental challenges that large companies face
- Creating ways to implement a strategy to measure the impact of funded internship schemes
- Identifying how to reduce a company’s future carbon footprint
- Finding ways to raise awareness for longer term support for community initiatives
Throughout the consultancy challenge students also had the opportunity to attend a number of workshops to develop their consulting, team working and business research skills. Additionally, at the end of WCWIO, all participating groups successfully presented their proposed solutions and recommendations back to their employers.
One of our master’s student who took part in WCWIO with her team was Priya Ranita Crasta (Masters in Management MIM), who was tasked with finding a solution for LFC Foundation. Speaking about the challenge, Priya said:
"I participated in the ‘We Can Work It Out’ Challenge, last month with University of Liverpool Management School. We as a team had the opportunity to explore various aspects on how a problem can be approached, analysed and solved for the Liverpool Football Club Foundation ‘Go Play’ project.
“We had to suggest ways to raise awareness, increase regular attendance, and gain funding for longer term support for this initiative. The WCWIO Challenge provided a great opportunity to think outside the box and hone my skills like teamwork, time management skills.
“Thanks to Dawn Georgeson and Paula Carroll for providing our team with this exciting challenge! Also, thanks to Janet and University of Liverpool for giving us this fantastic opportunity to work on."
Also taking part in WCWIO was Ziqi Li (MSc Operations and Supply Chain Management) student, who alongside her team came up with solutions for Decathlon China. Ziqi said:
‘’The skills sessions before the project are very helpful. Especially the teamwork session, it helps me to understand the different roles in teamwork and how to maximise every group member's value. And it helped me with my group interview.
“I think this event gave me an opportunity to work with people from different academic backgrounds. And it built up my teamwork experience which I can put down in my CV in detail.”
BAE Systems was just one of the participating businesses in the challenge, Rory Anderson Employee Rep said:
"The WCWIO challenge was a great opportunity for me to engage with the students and I hope they found it as valuable a learning opportunity as I did.
“The students absolutely surpassed my expectations in terms of their diligent approach to their research and this shone through in their confident and informative presentations. The creative solutions to the challenges I set were a testament to the hard work and effort the teams put in – I felt like they were teaching me new things about my own area of work!’’
As this year’s WCWIO consultancy challenge comes to a close, the MSc Careers Team would like to thank those students who completed their Challenges and all the employers involved in this year’s WCWIO which are Decathlon China; Santander UK; PWC Consulting; BAE Systems; The Very Group; CNC Robotics; Mando; Liverpool FC Foundation; Sysdoc and Open Partners.