MANAMA: The internship program is designed and delivered in line with Bahrain’s Vision 2030 to build the future ICT workforce in the Kingdom and to empower the next generation of tech enablers and innovators.
Manama: stc Bahrain has announced the conclusion of the Summer Internship programme for the new batch of university students.
The summer internship programme was a part of stc Corporate Social Responsibility and to provide career development opportunities for university students to complement their academic classroom education with practical and short-term projects and corporate assignments.
The programme has been designed to provide Bahraini youth with the latest Techno-commercial professional skills to contribute to their overall career and personal development.
The Programme spanned across two exhaustive and intensive months during which all interns were rotated across all the business sectors and departments including People sector, Commercial, Network, Business, Governmental Affairs, Finance, etc. With 21 interns on board, we have delivered 11,000 hours of guided experience during the program tenure.
“Training the youth of today is an crucial goal we always aim at, and we are proud to be empowering Bahraini youth to use this opportunity in their career and be able to build a first-hand understanding of the quintessential skills for their future. We are committed to building the next generation of TECH Savy talent that is confident to drive the Kingdom’s digital transformation in line with the Economic Vision 2030,” Sara Khonji, Chief People Officer at stc Bahrain, said.
The programme is focused on guided experiential learning through mentorship, shadowing, rotations and projects in their specialization areas and encouraging them to wear the corporate professionals’ hat and present their perspective accordingly. The interns were guided by mentors who invested the time and efforts in extending the on-the-job-knowledge and experience to each of them at corporate and personal level.
