Commercial Bank’s Newest Graduates Poised for Success

 

DOHA, Qatar: Commercial Bank, Qatar, the country’s leading private-sector bank, today announced the graduation of its participants in the Bank’s 2012 Graduate Development Programme.

 

Commercial Bank’s CEO, Mr Abdulla Al Raisi, said of the event, “We are justly proud of our graduates and, along with their families and friends, we are pleased to take this opportunity to congratulate them on their achievement and hard work over the last two years.”

 

“Our Graduate Programme participants have already shown commitment by completing this two-year programme, but this is only the first step in what we hope will be a long career with us,” he added.

 

The Commercial Bank Graduate Development Programme is known as one of Qatar’s most effective professional training programmes. Its unique value is that, during two years, participants experience a working life in nearly all of the Bank’s business units, giving them invaluable hands-on work experience but also a sound understanding of how the Bank operates in all its departments and how its different operations link together.

 

Participants benefit from assistance in the form of technical training, mentoring from senior staff, a buddy system, team-building activities, and dedicated expert support to help them map out individual career paths. The programme enhances graduates’ communications, business and leadership skills.

 

Through their temporary placements in different banking departments, participants discover through real experience the type of work within Commercial Bank that suits them best, helping them to make the right decision about their future career path. Having completed their on-job rotation, the new graduates enjoy a placement in target permanent roles at the prestigious Bank.

 

Addressing the new graduates at the event, Commercial Bank’s EGM & Chief Human Capital Officer, Ms. Sharoq Al-Malki, acknowledged that the Graduate Development Programme could be hard work. “But as with all things in life, the greatest challenges bring the greatest rewards,” she said.

 

She added: “Your reward is the experiences you have gained from your work rotations, the new skills you have learnt, and of course, your new full time positions at Commercial Bank.”

 

Looking ahead, Ms Al-Malki said, “This graduation marks the starting point for the rest of your careers, and it is an honour to welcome you to Commercial Bank as fully-fledged members of the team.”

 

As CEO, Mr Al-Raisi similarly emphasised the role that new graduates would play in ensuring the continuing success of Commercial Bank, and emphasised that graduates are one of the Bank’s most important assets and are essential to the future of the Bank.