Zamil Industrial Investment Company (Zamil Industrial) pays great attention to serving the community in various ways, including the provision of specialized training opportunities for a large number of university, college and school students on annual basis. The Training Center's Manager, Dr. Mohamed Abdulla Sharif, announced that the training programs for this year have been organized into two main categories, namely those that are designed for the secondary schools students and others that are suitable for the college and university students from various regions of the Kingdom.

Dr. Sharif stated that this year the company has provided on-the-job training opportunities for 62 students from different colleges of technologies and universities. Training will be conducted at various departments of the company in Dammam, such as production, engineering, sales and marketing, information technology and finance at Zamil Steel and Zamil Air Conditioners, both Zamil Industrial companies. He stated that opportunities were given to students from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, King Saud University, King Faisal University, Price Mohamed bin Fahd University in Al Khobar, Jazan University, Al Baha University, Al Qassim University, Dammam College of Technology and Technical Trainers College in Riyadh.

He added that most of the training programs started on 25th June 2011, and the duration of the sessions varies from two months for the summer training students to seven months for the cooperative university students. Dr. Sharif emphasized that the students’ knowledge, skills and attitude are assessed continuously by the line-supervisors as well as the training center to ensure that their specialized technical as well as their common skills are gradually developed and any difficulties that they may come across are resolved before preparing and sending their final assessment results to the academic institutions. He concluded his statement by explaining that university students are given SR 2,000 per month stipend and college students are given SR 1,000 per month. They are responsible for the execution of real tasks during their training programs, to build motivation and provide sufficient incentives for active participation in and to ensure that they receive maximum benefit from all training activities.

With regard to the training of the secondary school students, Dr. Sharif explained that the Training Center has coordinated and collaborated with a National Institute to train 40 male and 20 female secondary school students during their summer holiday. He added that the company coordinated with the labor office in Dammam to nominate suitable students for the summer training program, in addition to offering training opportunities to a number of the children of company employees. Every effort was made to ensure that the students received maximum benefit from their training programs.

He emphasized that the summer training program for this category of students consists of an intensive English language communications skills module and an information technology module (including Microsoft Office applications), and those modules have been specifically selected to provide the best opportunity for students to develop the vital skills that will be needed for their future studies and careers. He indicated that the students are assessed during the training program and will be paid SR 1,000 at the completion of the program, at the end of August 2011, as an incentive and demonstration of appreciation for their efforts throughout the session.

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