"The Apprentice": Where no one gets fired!
BizAcademy is an apprenticeship in leadership. BizAcademy is a program run globally which provides disadvantaged youth with the opportunity to learn about business, gain many new skills and expanded networks for moving forward in their careers.
Every year, salesforce.com works with youth from disadvantaged backgrounds, who are keen to learn about business and grow their career. By joining the corporate world for a week at our regional salesforce.com offices, working on a real project and learning from employees and mentors, they get hands-on experience and real-world business expertise.
To date, close to 300 BizAcademy graduates have participated at salesforce.com offices around the world — in San Francisco and Singapore, Tokyo and London, Dublin, New York, Toronto and Sydney. Since 2005, the salesforce.com Foundation has awarded more than $USD120,000 in scholarships to these deserving young people, and 50 BizAcademy graduates have been placed into internships at the salesforce.com offices, including the first Sydney intern at the first Sydney BizAcademy program in 2010.
For more details on BizAcademy programs globally see:
http://www.salesforcefoundation.org/grants/special-programs/bizacademy
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Sydney BizAcademy 2011
The 2011 BizAcademy Program runs from Friday, 16 September 2011 to Thursday, 22 September 2011.
The program kicks off with an afternoon of fun on Friday 16 September (2pm – 7pm). Here you’ll meet your dedicated mentor for the week, connect with other students in the program and participate in a fun activity involving music and basketball.
The 4 full days of the super-charged business program follows:
Monday 19 to Thursday 22 September (9am - 5pm):
Over the course of 4 days, you’ll learn all about cloud computing, meet with senior company leaders and take part in a real business project. Along the way you’ll learn about working in teams, new communication and presentation skills and get hints and tips from some of the best and brightest in the tech industry.
Throughout the program you’ll rub shoulders with talented salesforce.com employees and get a chance to meet Australian Basketball Legends. The project this year will involve establishing a new charity and directly helping others in need.
So you’ll get a chance to do something great for yourself and give to others, all at the same time!
On the final 4th day, Thursday, 22 Sept (9am - 5pm) the last day of the program, you’ll present in teams your project findings to a panel called ‘the Dragon Den’.
The panel will give all the teams professional feedback on their projects before announcing the final winning team.
To mark the end of a great week, enjoy your graduation, topped off with a celebration dinner and musical performance by special guests from last year’s BizAcademy program.
