In its commitment to empower Sri Lanka’s young graduates Cargills (Ceylon) PLC embarked on a landmark two-phased recruitment drive to open its doors to 500 management trainees.
The Cargills Management Trainee program targeting Retail Management commenced last month. One hundred and sixty graduates have been given the opportunity to embrace their full potential in a vibrant retail career.
A further 340 graduates would be taken in this month in a 12-month training that would cover Retail, Food Manufacturing, Restaurants, Banking, Entrepreneurship and Agribusiness. The training period will be followed by confirmed employment as an executive based on performance.
Ranjit Page, Deputy Chairman of Cargills said, “This year, our MT program has been further fine tuned to provide young graduates exposure in multiple sectors.
“We have committed the time and effort of our young senior management to mentor and nurture the young trainees during their first year of employment. The program from the point of recruitment has been converted to fully engage the trainees with a new activity-based interview format and practical oriented training pedagogy.,” he said.
Providing voluntary consultation to Cargills Training, Dr. Sunil Nawaratne, Director General of Samurdi Development Departmnt (SDD) and former Secretary of Higher Education said, “I am supporting Cargills to empower Sri Lanka’s graduates on the KSAM (Knowledge Skills Attitude and Mindset) model which is a concept that is now world recognised. We are driving KSAM to build leaders with a vision for themselves and in turn for Sri Lanka.”
Cargills upped its management trainee quota from 150 graduates recruited in an year for the program to 500 this year, due to the ever increasing demand for opportunities from young graduates from public universities.