Oracle chooses Pakistani students for graduate development

Oracle has selected five Pakistani students for its Asia Pacific Graduate Development Program. The five graduate trainees from Pakistan were short-listed from among 250 applicants after a series of interviews and other selection activities designed to evaluate their communication skills, problem solving abilities, creativity, initiative, leadership, entrepreneurial spirit and lateral thinking abilities. 

This first ever group from Pakistan are graduates from leading universities, including NUST School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, SZABIST and FAST-NU. 

The Graduate Development Program involves 24 months of training for select graduates who receive training to build key business competencies such as communication and presentation skills, motivational skills, change management, planning and organizational skills, effective team building and teamwork. Oracle grooms graduate trainees for business software consulting, sales and sales-consulting opportunities with the company. 

Oracle's Asia Pacific Graduate Development Program is open to meritorious graduates from various fields including Computer Science, Information Systems and Business Administration, from recognized universities in the region. 

"Pakistan's economic and technological uplift depends largely on one factor - capacity building. Training for young Pakistanis, who constitute about half our total population, is the surest way to secure steady economic growth," said Samina Rizwan, Regional Director of Oracle SAGE-West. "Oracle's Graduate Development Program is a step towards helping Pakistani students enter the global knowledge economy." The Graduate Development Program is run by Oracle in various countries to groom promising graduates. Successful candidates can look forward to an exciting career with the global software and services leader. 

Different by design, the Graduate Development Program readies fresh graduates for real-world professional challenges by providing trainees the opportunity to work on real projects, with clients and deliverables. They are given access to various information, tools, resources and continuous development opportunities relevant to their professional growth.