PepsiCo Launches Third Edition of Change the Game Challenge

PepsiCo’s massive competition offers job opportunities and more to successful participants

The Change the Game Challenge, launched by PepsiCo for the first time in 2016, is back. The goal of the competition is to harness ideas from youth on how to solve real business issues. For this year’s Change the Game Challenge, participants are being asked to address the business challenge of managing plastic waste and eliminating plastic in production. Registration for Change the Game Challenge 2018 is open from 10-24 October 2018.

Top 5 runner-up teams from the competition will form part of the potential pool for PepsiCo Pakistan’s Management Trainee Program (an accelerated career development platform for recent graduates) as well as the Summer Internship Program for 2019, bypassing all the hiring processes (excluding interviews).The top 2 winning teams will win a grant of USD 100,000 to bring their ideas to life. Finally, the winning team will secure a permanent job offer from PepsiCo, with an added International job experience for 12 months in the Asia, Middle East and North Africa (AMENA) sector offices in Dubai.In case the winners have more than one year to graduate, the award will be a 2 months paid Internship within the AMENA offices.

Furqan Ahmed Syed, Vice President and General Manager for PepsiCo Pakistan, said: “The Change the Game Challenge reflects our commitment to sustainability and solving global problems, at a local level. It is also a competition about harnessing the creative potential of our youth to solve critical environmental issues. We look forward to the solutions they propose.”

The Change the Game Competition targets 3^rd and 4^th year Undergraduate students as well as Graduates with a maximum of 2 years’ work experience. Candidates must have a Business or Engineering background.The participants in this competition will have access to educational and informative sessions delivered by PepsiCo professionals, providing them with an unprecedented insight into the workings of the company, and imparting knowledge that they can then transfer to their future careers. Potential candidates are also being scouted through a series of campus drives that will take place in Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad.