Vodafone Qatar has partnered with Bedaya Centre for Entrepreneurship and Career Development, hosting 12 high school and undergraduate Qatari students in the company’s human resources, commercial and finance departments.
Students were introduced to Vodafone with a “Welcome Day” induction programme after which they moved on to shadow their assigned hosts.
During their job shadow programme, students got the chance to receive first-hand information from Vodafone staff both at the workplace and offsite when required.
This opportunity allowed the students to see what it is like to be part of one of the most valuable telecom brands in the world and how the Vodafone team applies global best practices to their specialty areas to ensure that they raise the bar of the industry, through “The Vodafone Way”, according to a statement.
Haeefa al-Malki, Qatarisation manager at Vodafone Qatar, said: “We want to be an admired company. Admired by our customers, our shareholders, the people we work with and the communities where we work. We launched ‘The Vodafone Way’ in 2009 to help us achieve this. Over the last three years, we’ve held numerous workshops to create a common understanding across the Vodafone leadership population of how it looks and feels to work and lead in ‘The Vodafone Way’ and this is the workplace culture we bring to new talent, interns or job shadow students.”
Reem al-Sowaidi, manager of the Bedaya Centre, said: “We are so proud of the collaboration with Vodafone Qatar and are looking to build a sustainable partnership with Vodafone. Bedaya Centre has introduced job shadowing to more than 300 Qatari students over the past two years as a highly effective tool for on-the-job learning, career development and leadership development.”
The Vodafone Way is underlined by the following key traits: every Vodafone talent must be customer-obsessed, innovation-hungry, ambitious and competitive, reflect the One Company, Global Roots image, work with speed, simplicity and trust, and be an admired leader.
At the end of the job shadow programme, students got back together for a feedback and closing session during which they expressed admiration of “The Vodafone Way” and culture and showed interest in further opportunities with Vodafone.
In addition to the job shadow programme, Vodafone recently participated in Qatar University’s Career Forum and the Education City Career Fair, where the company’s HR and Qatarisation team discussed recruitment, sponsorship and Discover programme opportunities within the firm.


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