HR Student Spotlights: 2025 Fall

Student Spotlights

Where is your hometown?
Fort Worth, Texas
Why did you decide to pursue a degree in HR?
I am greatly interested in helping create a workplace people can thrive in. Working is a necessity in life, so let's make the workplace supportive and meaningful.
How has the HR Program at UNT helped you to reach your personal, academic, and/or professional goals?
Mentorship gave me the confidence and insights into real HR experiences and internship preparation. My attendance in extracurriculars like the Professional Leadership Program and UNT SHRM also helped me gain servant leadership skills.
What was the most important thing you learned in the HR program?
In the HR program, I truly believe every single learning material this far has been critical to my career as I immediately recognized the content being presented as soon as I walked into my internship. If I were to single out one content area that helped the most, it would be federal HR laws.
What is your greatest academic or professional accomplishment and why?
My greatest academic accomplishment was becoming the President of UNT SHRM. I can still remember myself hearing about the program for the first time in a freshman advising appointment and I would never have imagined I would come this far. I am truly not the same person I was 4 years ago.
Where did you complete your internship and what were some key takeaways from it?
I completed my HR internship at Amazon in the Memphis, TN node. My key takeaways were the various impacts on attrition and how much research goes into it to find an impactful solution. I also learned how to accumulate weekly metrics through one of the company's HRIS, which greatly helped with my hypothesis.
What are your career aspirations?
I aspire to become a manager or director in HR. I find it hard to choose a specific area of HR to focus on since they all have meaningful impacts I am interested in, so I would love to work with all of them.
If you were involved in UNT SHRM, briefly summarize your involvement, and explain how your involvement helped you prepare for industry.
I started attending UNT SHRM meetings in Spring 2024, and I was quickly inspired by the friendliness and bond of the members and officers. I picked up my involvement last fall and competed in the Texas SHRM Student Conference and Competition alongside 3 teammates during the spring. The competition was a challenge but learning how to collaborate and understand how one case can impact multiple HR branches was extremely beneficial. Currently, I am serving as the President for my final semester and am so excited to see how we will all continue growing.
What advice do you have for future HR students who want to make the most out of their experience at UNT?
For future HR students at UNT, I would prioritize joining student organizations and programs. As a confused transfer student, I jumped straight into that. I can confidently say that these organizations will bring so many resources to you that are a key to your success. You simply have to get involved.