Young Arab Leaders announces Steps to Success for Bahraini youth

The Steps to Success programme will commence in July 2009. Through the internship programme, YAL aims to help the students' transit smoothly from student life to the workforce with all the necessary skills and tools to succeed. This unique step-by-step programme will assist participants in their search for a job, enhance their interview skills and equip them with tools that would help them excel in their chosen career path.

Students will get a chance to practice these skills by competing to intern in Bahrain's top companies. Students applying to their preferred positions will have to sit through interviews which will be conducted by company representatives. Based on their performance during the interviews, the companies will select the successful candidates for their internships.

Through these initiatives, YAL aspires to achieve long-term impact on the youth who will be the future leaders.

Steps to Success Programme will provide yet another opportunity to Bahraini students to gain experience and insight into how large organisations operate in an effort to prepare them for the future.

The comprehensive networking in the programme will benefit the young professionals and provide them with employment and life skills and help them meet educational, job readiness and career exploration goals.

The Young Arab Leaders Bahrain Office has started accepting applications for the Summer Internship Programme and the deadline for applying is the 24th of June 2009.

The Internship will provide the selected students an insight into the following fields: sales, marketing, media, finance and controlling, information technology, purchasing, logistics and quality assurance, engineering, technical servicing, as well as corporate and business development.

The Young Arab Leaders (YAL) is a network of Arab men and women who have seen the power of action in their own lives, reached unprecedented levels of success for their age, are positive and can see beyond today's difficulties to that vision of a prosperous Arab future.

These leaders are currently in prominent positions of responsibility and strive for extraordinary achievement, and they believe that their efforts today can have an impact on their communities, countries and the region as a whole.