Fresh Graduate Training Programme

Given that university graduates suffer from the lack of opportunities for practice and application, MAS designed this Program to target new graduates, in order to up-skill them and facilitate their access to the labor market. MAS helps them acquire practical and applied skills. The Institute covers all training expenses, such that participants do not face any financial obligations.
This Program targets new graduates from Palestinian universities in economics, finance, banking, accounting, and similar disciplines. The participant, according to the group she/he joins, receives four training courses covering a total of 100 hours.

Training Groups:

1.    Accounting group: This group targets graduates of accounting, with the participant receiving the following training courses:

• Life Skills: This course provides participants with the necessary knowledge and skills to enable them to market themselves and present their qualifications in a professional manner, acceptable to potential employers. This includes social media tools and knowledge of technology that they can use to display their qualifications.
• Management Accounting: This course provides participants with the knowledge and data that management at an institution needs to be able to manage the activities of the institution and take strategic decisions. It also teaches participants how to identify and extract appropriate information and data from internal and external sources, according to management’s needs, in order to fulfill specific purposes related to decision-making. It covers how to monitor and manage the operational activities of organizations, by utilizing available information and data, and through the performance measurement of the organization’s activities. It illustrates methods for assisting management in formulating strategic policies and plans by preparing budgets that include revenue/cost forecasts.
• Project Management, Evaluation, and Feasibility Studies: This course provides participants with the knowledge and skills they need to manage projects. It adds to their understanding of the effective management of projects created by - or assigned to – them. In this, they are required to apply tools and methods related to project implementation, in conformity with client satisfaction.
• Management of Procurement and Bids: This course aims to provide participants with the knowledge and data they need in the field of managing the purchasing function of an institution. They are required to think in terms of goods/services and optimization methods in this regard, in order to contribute to improving the performance and value of the institution.

2.    Economics group: Targets graduates of economics, participants receive the following training:

• Life Skills: This course provides participants with the necessary knowledge and skills to enable them to market themselves and present their qualifications in a professional manner, acceptable to potential employers. This includes social media tools and knowledge of technology that they can use to display their qualifications.
• Methods for Macroeconomic Analysis and Forecasting: This course provides participants with the practical tools that they can need to analyze the performance of an economy at the international level, as well as practical methods used in forecasting macroeconomic variables.
• The Tax System and Public Finance in Palestine: This course provides participants with the knowledge and skills they need in the field of taxation, as this is one of the main sources of income for the state (for both developing and developed countries), in addition to the fact that taxes are one of a country’s primary economic policy tools.
• Data Analysis and Management: This course provides participants with the knowledge and skills they need for the application and use of ‘big data in government, business, and other institutions.

3.    Financial and banking sciences group: This group targets banking and finance graduates. Participants receive the following courses:

• Life Skills: This course provides participants with the necessary knowledge and skills to enable them to market themselves and present their qualifications in a professional manner, acceptable to potential employers. This includes social media tools and knowledge of technology that they can use to display their qualifications.
• Foreign Exchange Operations: This course provides participants with the knowledge and skills they need to become familiar with the environment of the global financial system, exchange markets (exchange rates) and monetary markets (interest rates).
• Quantitative Financial Analysis: This course provides participants with the knowledge and skills they need to assess the performance of an organization using regression analysis, rate of variance, probabilities, ratios, cycles, economic indicators and behavioral factors.
• Risk Management at Commercial Banks: This course provides participants with knowledge and skills about the sources and types of risks facing banks and their management, given that risks have been an inherent component of the banking sector since its inception.

To fill out an application for admission, please visit the advertisements section or contact us at this email: trc@mas.ps