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42 QATALUM Qatalum participated in the 6th Qatar Career EXHIBITING Fair, held from the 1st to 6th of April at the Qatar National Convention Centre. Qatalum is involved because of the company’s own AT 6 QATAR focus on implementation of human resources th projects within the Human Development pillar of the Qatar National Vision 2030 - a key CAREER FAIR objective of the Fair. Qatalum is taking part as an exhibitor – at booth world-class Institute of Aluminium within the Centre EI-G09–to attract Qatari students and graduates as for Advanced Materials. Two professors from Norway future employees, part of the company’s Qatarisation will be the inaugural holders of the Chair, each for a policy, and has as its objective at the Fair “to increase successive, six-month period. The two professors will Qatari students’ awareness about the importance of be teaching the University’s engineering students, and Aluminium industry and find in QCF a great opportunity will have responsibility for the new research centre for to communicate with Qatari students”.This is part of International Best Practice – the Institute of Aluminium Qatalum’s theme “Forming Generations with a Brighter within the Centre for Advanced Materials. And finally, Perspective”. The company strongly believes that Qatalum’s Summer Training Programme covers a forming “National Generations” is highly important in period of 4-8 weeks during which students are given progressing local society, and has committed to develop the opportunity to spend time in one of Qatalum’s the abilities of these younger generations until they departments – technical or non-technical – to be possess the required skills that make them able to introduced to the basics of workplace ethics and to be take over the torch -leading the industrial sector and familiarised with the work environment. investment in Qatar. The Qatar Career Fair will offer Qatari students Part of the virtue of QCF 2013 for Qatalum is to education, recruitment, training opportunities and communicate with students and share with them development in order to enhance their abilities and information on Qatalum’s programs aimed at Qatari strengthen their skills - enabling them to meet the nationals: the Graduate Development Programmes challenges in national development. Public and private (GDPs); Professional Development Programme (PDP); institutions such as Qatalum can provide the largest National Scholarship Programme; and Summer Training number of jobs to Qatari citizens, provide the right Programme. The GDPs are meant to qualify University employment opportunities and meet the objectives of fresh graduates to occupy different jobs in Qatalum. the Qatarisation policy. The training is focused, designed and driven by the requirements of the job and to qualify them for the job’s requirement and develop their competencies. The PDP applies to candidates recruited for their specialist knowledge and field of study, yet who are limited in their industrial exposure, or who are without any industrial exposure at all. The objective of the PDP is to define an agreed training programme, based on the key performance areas listed in approved job descriptions. Qatalum’s National Scholarship Programme identifies Qatari students who fulfil certain criteria and who have the enthusiasm and motivation to advance in their studies, and offer them the chance to develop their education in related studies. Something that will interest Engineering students attending at the QCF is that Qatalum has also recently announced the creation of the ‘Qatalum Chair’ at Qatar University – a