April 23, 2025 10:30 - 16:30

The International Competition of Employers' Cases "HR GROWTH" (hereinafter the Competition, the Competition of the Site) is held at several sites of the XV Eurasian Economic Youth Forum (hereinafter the XV EEYF) within the framework of the Congress of Management and Law.

The co-organizer of the Competition on the site of the North-West Federal District of the Russian Federation is the Western Branch of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (Kaliningrad)

This is a professional case competition, the purpose of which is to create a tool for improving the quality of interaction between promising specialists in the field of personnel management, labor economics and their future employers. The project is aimed at developing professional competencies in young specialists, as well as assistance in finding places for internships, internships, and employment with leading companies in the region and the country.

Employers – partners of the competition will offer HR cases, the solution of which will allow assessing the level of knowledge and professional experience of the contestants. The contestants will present the results of the case solutions at the defense before the expert commission.

As a result, the best participants of the competition receive the opportunity to undergo an internship, industrial practice, and also an offer of employment (at the decision of the company representative - member of the expert jury) in order to test the proposed ideas.

An important element of the event is the educational component. In support of the competition, it is planned to hold training master classes and seminars with the participation of members of the competition jury - leading Russian and foreign experts in the HR sphere.

Participants of the Competition are students, postgraduates, young HR specialists aged 18 to 35 years from the Northwestern Federal District of the Russian Federation.

The competition will implement two tracks in 2025:

• Student track - for students studying under bachelor's, specialist's, master's degree programs (without work experience or with up to 2 years of work experience in the field of personnel management, labor economics and related areas),
• "Young Specialist" track (with more than 2 years of experience in the field of personnel management, labor economics and related areas).

Key dates:

Applications for participation in the Competition are submitted before March 20, 2025 through the registration system of the XV EEYF website (eurasia-forum.ru), choosing during registration: Site of the Northwestern Federal District of the Russian Federation – name of the Competition – name of the direction.

• sending a set of cases to a registered participant of the Competition for him/her to select and notify the organizers about the preparation of a solution for a specific case, within a week after registration of the application on the website;
• receipt of case solutions from participants - up to and including March 20, 2025 (case solutions are sent by reply letter to the competition coordinator by email. Recommended file name: "Case No. - SurnameIO". Updates to solutions (including those recommended by coordinators) are subsequently sent to the coordinator by email;
• examination of solutions to cases registered and admitted to the Competition based on the results of the first stage - from March 21 to March 31, 2025.
• the general list of finalists of the Competition is published on the EEYF website - from April 1 to 10, 2025.

The final defense of the work will take place on April 23, 2025 (10.30-15.00 Yekaterinburg time)

The award ceremony for the finalists of the Site Competition and the finalists of the International Final of the Competition will take place on April 24, 2025, simultaneously (via video link) at two sites:

• at the main site of the XV EEYF at the Ural State University of Economics (hereinafter USUE), Yekaterinburg, Russia;
• at the site of the North-West Federal District of the Russian Federation XV EEYF in the Western branch of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Kaliningrad.

Based on the results of the in-person case defense, the organizers of the EEYF have provided cash prizes for the winners and runners-up of the Competition:

• 1st place – 15,000 RUB.
• 2nd place – 10,000 RUB.
• 3rd place – 5,000 RUB.

The winners of the Competition, awarded a 1st degree Diploma, are awarded points for individual achievements when applying for admission to study at USUE in master's programs (2 points).