Strengthening Positions – INVENT participates at the selection interviews for the 2015 Manager Training Program

Most of you might know that the selection for the 2015 Manager Training Programs is currently at its final processing stage and the candidates will soon find out the results.

What is probably less known, is that this year the organizers came out with a new element of procedure, a very important one in our opinion. For the first time GIZ decided to involve the alumni associations in the selection process. We are very happy to inform that INVENT Moldova, along with ABCooperation (The MP alumni association from Belarus) were the first associations to test this new formula.

Tobias Knubben, the senior project coordinator, explains that this decision came about as a natural suite of the strong cooperation established these last years between GIZ, the national corporate partners and these alumni associations. Therefore, this new level of collaboration can be perceived as way of institutionalizing it.

In this context, six of our members (Mihai Bostan, Adela Cazac, Marina Cristea, Nadejda Damașcan, Anatol Palade and Lilia Sandul) kindly agreed to represent INVENT in this responsible mission and accompanied Tobias Knubben in interviewing the candidates, during the last week of November.

Sharing their feedbacks, all the members agreed that this experience was a highly positive and valuable one for all the parts involved in the process: an added value for the selection’s efficiency, an important step forward in INVENT’s development, a better orientation for the candidates and certainly an enriching exercise for the personal proficiency.

In terms of interviews’ efficiency, a major contribution brought by INVENT members was considered to be their grasp of the national economic and business particularities. These being integrated, the conversations could, certainly, be organized in a more constructive manner, targeting directly the key issues to be raised in each candidate’s case. Moreover, having behind the program’s experience, the alumni felt particularly helpful in assessing the candidates’ purposes for participating, their approach to this sort of questions being a more specific one. In the same time, the candidates themselves, could benefit from information provided by INVENT members regarding the program as such and the daily life in Germany.

Furthermore, such a practice is undoubtedly a great occasion for INVENT to get in contact with its potential members, to present the association in advance, thus preparing a fruitful cooperation with the future alumni. On the other hand, this is also an opportunity to identify good candidates among those that did not fulfil the required criteria and help them prepare their applications for the next year. This is an action that INVENT would be happy to coach.

In addition, through this participation, INVENT itself could strengthen its positions, consolidate its relations with the Chamber and prove once again its openness for offering support to GIZ and the Chamber in coordinating and promoting the programme.

All the involved members confessed having experienced highly positive feelings along the interviews. Most of them were enthusiastic to discover this young generation of entrepreneurs, their strong motivation, their diverse and dynamic ideas, all these leading to optimistic thoughts concerning the evolution of business environment in Moldova.

11.12.2014