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2014-08-12T11:13:00.002+04:00

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@bizgroupuae You’re Hired! biz-group challenges Eventice Middle East contenders to kick start their career

2014-05-27T15:28:00.001+04:00

Event industry aspirants gathered at the annual Eventice Middle East graduate recruitment competition, held last week in Dubai, for a chance to kick start their career. Putting the contenders through their paces was biz-events, the Middle East’s largest and longest established provider of corporate team building events.

Andrew Fieldhouse, Commercial Manager, biz-events

Launched in 2013 The Eventice Middle East is the regional adaptation of the popular UK-based recruitment event that goes by the same name. Organised by ESP International, The Eventice 2014 challenged participants over three days of knock-out competition to win job placements at leading Middle East event companies: Innovations Unlimited ME, Cheil, and Informa Middle East.

As part of the competition, biz-events developed and adjudicated a series of interactive tasks designed to test the recent graduates on creativity, persuasion, innovation, teamwork, collaboration and logic - all essential skillsets in the events industry.

Twelve shortlisted candidates participated in the final day of the recruitment initiative and were required to complete four activities in small groups. These included a high-tech treasure hunt, creating a perfume brand targeted at a consumer audience and producing a short promotional video to sell their perfume. The teams were also confronted with a variety of problem solving and analytical tasks.

Andrew Fieldhouse, Commercial Manager, biz-events commented, “The Eventice is a great platform for young hopefuls wanting access to one of the world’s leading event industries. The activities we conducted challenged the contestants’ creativity and resourcefulness, and they soon realised the value of team work and team building, particularly when trying to achieve business results.

“The Eventice also demonstrates the versatility and power of team building as a tool for achieving business objectives by improving a team’s performance. All the tasks were conceived to extract vital organisational benefits, and to maximize the contribution of every participant to achieve a business result. In the case of The Eventice, the bottom line for the participants was to demonstrate their skills and hear those famous words, ‘You’re Hired!’”

Connec ME Education brings the world’s youth empowerment gurus to pioneer the MENA region’s smartest youth program

2014-05-27T15:24:00.001+04:00

In the presence of HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan

Distinguished experts from the UAE, UK, Sweden & France discussed first-of-a-kind culture and education programs on 21 May at Abu Dhabi’s Rosewood Hotel

In the first event of its kind in the MENA region, In the presence of HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Connec ME Education brought together the world’s top youth empowerment organizations to exchange out-of-the-box ideas that will help the region graduate to a smart new era of cultural and educational development. This historic event took place today at 11am at Rosewood Hotel, Abu Dhabi.

Mohammad Mahfouz Shadid: CEO of Connec ME Education said: “Over half of the MENA region’s population is aged under 25 years, so by empowering youths we are actually uplifting the entire region. When you train a youth, you are developing an entire generation. These are not just the leaders of tomorrow but the leaders of today, because we are seeing very young achievers changing the world in business, technology, media, social activism, education and other fields.”

Connec ME Education, together with its business partners will empower youth in the MENA region for them to reach endless possibilities in this challenging business around the globe. When we take care of the youth, we are looking to a bright and better future.

Elaborating on the expected benefits from this event, Ms. Mariam Omran Al Hallami, Chief Operation Officer of Connec ME Education, said: “We are bringing the very best organizations in the field because our region must learn from the best to be the best. Our youths have the advantage of being highly tech-savvy, very comfortable with using apps, very active on social media and they have their fingers on the pulse of the latest trends worldwide. When you add the region’s high internet, mobile and social media penetration rates, there is no reason why our youths can’t take the lead globally by learning smarter, faster and easier.” With the youth empowered, we are looking at a bright and better generation.

Connec ME Education aims to make the region’s youth to be globally competitive by providing technology-driven solutions for education and vocational training, in synergy with its international partners.

In addition to esteemed guests from the UAE, the global educational and vocational leaders who are attending from the UK, Sweden and France include Learndirect: a leading provider of e-Training, e-Assessment and other employability services; MOD’ART International: an elite institute that prepares students for diverse careers in fashion; EnlightKS: which delivers specialist consulting services to 650 clients in over 25 countries; EuroTalk: with a 20-year reputation for developing language learning software; and City & Guilds: a global leader in skills education since 1878.

Together, we are giving the youth a chance on a better tomorrow. The youth is our future, our legacy.