Incubadora Talento

Do you have Talent? Do you have a brilliant academic record?
This is your Professional Development Program

After five successful editions, Alight and the University of Granada are launching the sixth edition of the Professional Skills Acceleration Program, an initiative aimed at training the brightest students at the University of Granada.

The Program is specifically oriented to the development of distinctive competencies considered as key and indispensable to develop a successful professional career: socioemotional intelligence, leadership, ability to adapt to changes, creativity, motivation, authenticity, communication, teamwork or social commitment.

The Program will offer a training and development opportunity to 20 university students with brilliant academic records. In addition to a series of intensive and experiential training sessions in soft skills, the selected participants will have personalized coaching and mentoring sessions with senior executives of the multinational company Alight.

The cost of the program is 3,000 euros per student, but it is COMPLETELY FREE for the selected students thanks to the sponsorship of the company Alight and the University of Granada.

If you meet the profile and you are interested in participating, you can see detailed information about the course here:

After the huge success of the first edition, Alight and the University of Granada are launching the second edition of the Poli-lingua Programme, an initiative aimed at training participants in personal and digital skills. The programme is aimed at students of the University of Granada who have high linguistic skills and who wish to have a first working contact in a technology company, even if their previous field of training is not related to the world of new information and communication technologies.

Poli-lingua offers participants a set of practical training workshops in soft skills as well as professional experience in the digital field. The initiative is aimed at bright final year undergraduate and postgraduate students with a high level of English, French, German, Dutch, Italian, Danish, Finnish, Swedish, Turkish, Russian, Romanian or Polish.

The programme will allow participating students to live a unique experience through intensive coexistence with other high-potential students of different profiles, which will enrich their way of thinking and relating to others. In addition, they will acquire a set of distinctive skills that are highly valued in the labour market, both personally and professionally (teamwork, effective communication, leadership…).

The programme is eminently practical in terms of learning and, in addition to the training workshops, includes a 6-month internship in a leading multinational company in the digital sector.

The cost of the programme is 4,000 euros per student, but it is COMPLETELY FREE for selected students thanks to the sponsorship of the company Alight and the University of Granada.

If you fit the profile and are interested in participating, please contact the Talent Incubator.

The Talent Incubator and Amazon Web Services launch the AWS re / Start initiative, an ambitious and innovative training program aimed at helping people without prior computer training find jobs related to the digital cloud

The Talent Incubator of the University of Granada continues its collaboration plan with leading companies for the development of micro-certificates that promote employability and begins from October 4 to December 22 a specific course on Cloud Computing. This pioneering collaboration between Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the University of Granada is aimed at improving the professional possibilities of unemployed or underemployed people. For the first time in Spain, a university and AWS collaborate to launch the AWS Re / Start program that focuses on offering intensive training in the field of digital cloud to people with no previous experience in the computing field.

To do this, the Talent Incubator has selected 25 people interested in boosting their professional careers, mostly women without experience in the computer field and will dedicate part of their teachers to carry out this intensive 12-week training aimed at enabling them to work in the field of the digital cloud. AWS has collaborated with the university by providing the didactic material and experience of its Re / Start program, which is especially focused on professional introduction to the Cloud field. The people selected to participate in the program will receive free training in the innovation laboratories of the Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences of the University of Granada and will have the support of professional mentors and specialized university professors who will develop the eminently practical contents of AWS re / Start based on scenarios and real application cases. In addition, the Talent Incubator of the University of Granada has paid special attention to the soft skills that are part of the program and specific seminars are planned in the areas of: communication, leadership, adaptability to change, and practices related to Job search.

The course offered by both entities responds to a real need for professionals in this sector. A recent LinkedIn report has highlighted that knowledge about the digital cloud is one of the areas most in demand by companies in the last three years. In fact, a recent survey of IT managers in companies (included in the so-called “Pathfinder Report”) showed that nine out of ten managers highlighted the difficulty of finding qualified people in this field and considered that the skills gap Digital technologies make it extremely difficult for their organizations to advance in technology.

American experts from the multinational Alight NGA HR offered yesterday, January 21, within the Woman 4.0 Talent Program, a specific workshop on the importance of properly managing diversity in organizations and the consequences of not paying attention to this aspect considered currently key in business competitiveness.

In the US, this issue is already considered absolutely strategic. In Spain, more and more companies are working decisively on it. Three experts from this multinational come to present to the program participants their knowledge and real experiences in a company with more than 15,000 employees on five continents. A huge challenge that they have faced with a clear and global policy and that they will share in this specific forum for debate and discussion.

The workshop speakers were Xan Daniels, Vice President of Inclusion and Diversity at Alight NGA HR, Nikki Robin, Global Head of the company’s Professional Women Network, and Cari Wilkins, Head of Inclusion and Diversity at Alight NGA HR.

The workshop worked specifically on gender diversity. Currently existing barriers for women when it comes to reconciling work and family life and possible updates to eliminate the “glass ceiling” were analyzed.

The multinational specialized in the digitization of human resources management based in Granada, Alight NGA HR, announces after the meeting of the Joint Committee of the Chair of Talent and Leadership that it will not only maintain the collaboration that until now it had with the University, but is going to make an important effort to find new lines of work and finance new projects.

For Aitor Vinós, vice president of Alight NGA HR, “in difficult times, being positive and working with greater dedication is key to getting out of the situation. Talent is vital at this time and that is why we invest in this type of program ”. At the meeting of the Mixed Commission, those responsible for the Talent Incubator informed the rector of the University, Pilar Aranda, about the implementation of the programs “Acceleration of Professional Skills” and “Talent Woman 4.0”, initiatives aimed at discover and support the development of young university students with high potential, and the work that is being carried out in parallel to create new programs and initiatives that have a greater scope.

In the words of Alberto Aragón, director of the Talent Incubator, “we are really proud to have created such a productive public-private partnership that offers so many benefits to participants”. “All the students in our programs highlight the practical aspect of the training they receive and the personal and professional growth they experience after passing through the Talent Incubator”.

It is now the fourth year that the Talent Incubator has been working hard to create these projects aimed at complementing regulated academic training with the development of certain high-performance skills that allow the best students at the University of Granada to better adapt to the current professional world. The programs work on leadership skills that point to the emotional and interpersonal side and, unlike the hard skills that are identified with curricular academic knowledge, they are skills related to the integrated implementation of skills, personality traits, knowledge and skills. acquired securities.

In addition, all programs also have a development in the social sphere, highlighting the importance of future leaders being aware of the value of human relationships and establishing sustainable bases, not only for their own and personal development, but also for the advancement of the environment around them.

Lola Vidal, coordinator of the Talent Incubator, considers that “growing up right now is a privilege. It is a manifestation that at the University we are capable of innovating and collaborating closely with the business sector. We are in a complicated situation but when a clear value is generated for all those involved, the private company is committed to working with the University “.