MANAMA: Within the framework of social responsibility towards the community and the belief in the importance of training and qualifying young cadres, Al Baraka Banking Group and Al Baraka Islamic Bank organized a training program for a new batch of university students, which included 11 students from various local and foreign universities for the summer training program to prepare them to enter the labor market.
The programme included a number of theoretical and practical training programs in addition to field training in various sections of the Group and the Bank. The program included also organizing a number of specialized workshops for trainees in the areas of Islamic banking principles, Islamic banking products, creative thinking, innovation of new banking products, and how to prepare, present, and market new business projects. In addition to the workshops offered by Al Baraka Banking Academy on human development, self-development, time management, effective communication arts, teamwork, team building, and presentation skills.
At the end of the training program, Mr. Abdulrahman Shehab, Executive Vice President Head of Operations and Administration at Al Baraka Banking Group welcomed a group of students and expressed his pride in the skills they showed during the training period, stressing that the Group and the Bank are proud today that they have large and prestigious community contributions, including their contribution in creating jobs for the younger generation and facilitate their entry into the labor market armed with the knowledge and experience necessary to succeed and advance in their career.
In addition, the Group and the Bank are keen to make sure that the training programs they provide are comprehensive and intensive to achieve the greatest benefit to them and help they had better understand their academic studies in their professional, banking and financial aspects, especially as the Group and the Bank have rich experience in these areas.
Al Baraka Banking Group and Al Baraka Islamic Bank have successfully managed the summer training program over the past years, which has witnessed a steady increase in the number of trainees to hundreds of trainees who have taken up positions in various companies, institutions and banks in Bahrain.