Competition Information
Penn State Harrisburg Sales Competition //
Our sales competition this year features three events as follows: An Elevator Pitch Competition at our Fall Career Fair, a speech competition, and a group Case Competition (limit of 6 members). This competition is made possible by the generous support of our partners including Clark Associates, Fastenal, Enterprise Holdings, The Sherwin-Williams Company, and Hershey Entertainment and Resorts. We appreciate Career Services allowing us to partner with their career fair. Students will solve a short case for the group case competition. The speech competition will allow students to share the leadership qualities that they bring to employers in a five-minute speech. The Elevator Pitch competition will take place at the career fair booths where students will get two minutes to pitch their best qualities to potential employers. Training materials and scoring sheets will be provided to student competitors before the competition and are given below.
Materials //
Locate and download the materials you need for the 2024 Sales Competition.
Speech Competition //
During our career fair all student competitors will be judged on the leadership skills they possess as they share stories with us about how they have demonstrated these qualities about themselves to a panel of judges from our corporate partners. Be sure to practice your three-to-five-minute speech as you compete for cash prizes.
Speech Competition Explainer and Scoring Ruberic
Case Competition //
The small group case competition is about a dealership in East Texas that experienced a service failure and had to deal with the resulting crisis management situation as reported in the local news station KTAB/KRTC. Students will take on the role of Nicolas Varela as they figure out how to fix the customers and the problems at the dealership to move forward. Students acting as Nicholas must review ADA laws and craft a statement for the media.