INJAZ Bahrain Programs for UOB Students
UOB cooperates with INJAZ BAHRAIN to provide a group of workshops aimed at inspiring and preparing the Bahraini youth to succeed in the global economy. It provides hands on training, supportive mentors, and a competitive and educational environment. Join us to start your journey into entrepreneurship and explore the business landscape.
To learn more about INJAZ Bahrain visit their webpage (Click here) or drop an email to: uobinjaz@uob.edu.bh
Company Program
The INJAZ Bahrain Company Program reflects a modern, state of the art learning approach for high school and university students. to start up entrepreneurial companies. Comprising of 12 consecutive meetings, the program emphasizes company start-up content, while providing complementary focus on contemporary issues, research and analysis, communication, organization, mathematics, reading and writing skills.
Supported by online extra learning opportunities to allow for different learning styles to grasp and understands the concept taught in the program. The INJAZ Bahrain Company Program enables and enhances many skills especially in their academic education.
Such skills complement and enrich the students’ performance in their academic education and support positive attitudes as they explore their future career aspirations.
With the support and guidance of volunteer consultants from the local business community, the INJAZ Bahrain Company Program provides high school and university students the opportunity to start-up, organize and operate actual enterprising companies in their local communities. In doing so, students from diverse academic backgrounds learn about real life business processes and functions, the challenges and benefits of entrepreneurship and the contribution that entrepreneurs make to economies and societies in the MENA region.
Innovation Camp (ICAMP)
The Innovation Camp is an exciting one-day workshop that will challenge students to find innovative solutions to a real business challenge using creativity, thinking outside of the box, and teamwork.
Students will be divided into teams that compete against each other through a set of educational activities and recreational games.
Students are given a business challenge to which they have to propose a solution within a very limited time, given access to tools, information, and resources.
During the ICAMP, students will be able to:
- Experience leadership, critical thinking, presentation skills and learn about business start-ups in a fun way.
- Foster an understanding of the world of work and the spirit of entrepreneurship through the principle of learning by doing.
- Develop their interpersonal as well as problem-solving skills and learn to work under tight deadlines.
Trained corporate volunteers deliver the workshop from the private sector. The volunteers will help them expand their horizons and direct their team toward an entrepreneurial future.
Head Start: Boost Your Employability
Head Start meets the needs of a diverse group of university students by providing engaging, academically enriching, and experiential learning sessions in work-readiness education and career perspectives. The program includes three volunteer-led sessions.
Following participation in this program, students will be able to:
- Create professional resumes and strong cover letters.
- Understand how to prepare for a job interview including self-presentation, handle interview questions, demonstrate appropriate behaviors and demonstrate one’s skills and relevant past experiences.
- Identify the steps involved in preparing for an internship and learn how to locate and secure a suitable internship.