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EBA HR Evening School for Beginning HR specialists
EBA has established HR School to shape professional community of HR specialists by passing on the knowledge from highly qualified HR experts to HR beginners. During school classes, participants learn new techniques on how to search and recruit professionals, as well as other tricks of the HR trade. Topics of school sessions lie within the range of HR issues such as assessment/performance appraisal, training and development, corporate culture and termination. Students are trained on how to conduct different kinds of interviews effectively, aiming at selecting highly qualified professionals. Speakers also elaborate on modern approaches to goal-setting and career planning, building up training systems and shaping corporate culture.
EBA has introduced the EBA Personal Assistant (PA) School to let PAs of EBA member companies improve their professional qualifications through attending master-classes and lectures by business-coaches and leading international trainers invited by EBA for closed meetings.
Students of this school learn how to perform their job duties well according to the highest ethical standards, and obtain guidance as to providing quality service. Among key issues for discussion at classes there are such important things as time management and action planning, since these are types of issues that personal assistants usually deal with.
EBA Marketing and PR School in memory of Robert Reed for novice marketing and PR specialists
During school sessions, participants discuss different PR and Marketing
Issues and play interactive games. Lessons are usually conducted by well-known and highly-qualified experts in the relevant fields, who have lots of
priceless professional and personal experience to share with school students. Marketing communications, PR events for media, Communication channels, Effective and persuasive presentation delivery and Image building are among different issues presented at school meetings.
We have asked several of EBA Schools’ students about their impressions of the schools they attend.
Olga Dariy, “Panalpina”
“I am extremelly satisfied with the level of education at the HR Evening
School. I like it a lot, especially lectures by Irina Morzhova, where everything is taught without hustle. I work in HR area for half a year, and topics of School are just the right thing for young specialists like me.”
Valeriia Radko, Financial Group “KOSMOS”
“Speaking about PR & Marketing School I attend, I can say only positive things. I like topics and speakers, everything is very well-organized”.
Zoya Timchenko, “Henkel Bautechnik”
“As for Personal Assistants’ School, I like it very much.
We can judge about its success by the quantity of applicants eager to join.
(The first group of PA School has about 100 attendees). The topics are exactly what you need: negotiation, communication skills, project management, etc. I would like to thank EBA for organizing such a course.”
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