Aboitiz accepts applications for student-focused programs

THE Aboitiz Group is now accepting applications for student-focused programs for 2015.

Under its “Future Talents Program,” Aboitiz invites all deserving college students to participate in the Aboitiz Future Leaders Business Summit (AFLBS), its curriculum-based on-the-job training program, and apply for its scholarship or cadetship program.

The company announced the opening of the Aboitiz College Scholarship Program (ACSP) earlier this year, which is renewable every semester, provided the scholar maintains an 85 percent general point average.

The scholarship is open to incoming first to fourth year college students pursuing a degree in Accountancy, Business Management, Information Technology, Psychology, Engineering or Pre-Law. Deadline of application is April 6.

Last year, Aboitiz also opened its Legal Scholarship Program to students of the UP College of Law from second to fourth year for the regular program, or second to fifth year for the evening program.

The on-the-job training program equips students with the necessary skills and right work attitude through a curriculum-based training experience in preparation for their actual work.

Now on its 10th year, the AFLBS brings together close to a hundred promising college students from all over the country for two days to educate them on leadership and management concepts and how these are concretized in a corporate environment. The AFLBS will be this coming November in Cebu City.

Aboitiz Group senior vice president and chief Human Resource officer Txabi Aboitiz said the company’s student programs have been developed to help the country’s future leaders establish careers that would contribute to nation-building.

“It’s not only about preparing them for the corporate world. By forging the leaders of today, we are guaranteed with a better tomorrow,” he said, referring to the country’s ‘best and the brightest’ – working scholars, varsity athletes, honor students, and organization leaders who participate in the annual AFLBS.”