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HSBC’s efforts to empower university students HSBC recently launched the second course of the ‘Employable You’ programme, a self-development training programme sponsored by the bank for the students of the Faculty of Management and Finance of the University of Colombo.
Inaugurated in 2003, the objective of the programme is to prepare a select group of undergraduates for the competitive nature of the corporate world upon graduation. The programme further prepares the undergraduates to secure lucrative employment and enables them to be equipped for the demands and challenges of their new work environment, the Bank said. Running for a period of three years, the first programme benefited a group of approximately 80 undergraduates. The course covered a vast and varied number of areas – from mentoring to training sessions, innovative competitions to mock interviews! Added to this, HSBC has also gone a step further and designed a programme whereby the most promising students would also receive an opportunity to be employed at the bank. The second programme will differ from the first in that it will run for a period of one year and the opportunity to follow it will be given to students in their second year. However, the curriculum of the course will cover the same areas, while being more interactive and up-to-date. Worldwide, the HSBC Group concentrates on the education as one its primary corporate social responsibility strategies. Within Sri Lanka, HSBC has addressed the vital issue of education at different levels – with undergraduates through the Employable You programme; with children with special needs at the St Joseph’s School for the Deaf in Ragama and with underprivileged schoolchildren at the Thirivanaketiya Vidyalaya in Ratnapura. |
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