ABSL Academy launches in April in the Tri-City

ABSL Academy is a prestigious educational program focused on developing the practical skills of effective career management. Its aim is to train future employees of the business services sector. Partner of the initiative is to CIMA (Chartered Institute of Management Accountants).

Enrollment: http://register.abslacademy.pl/zapisz-sie-2

The program ABSL Academy was established in connection with the growing demand for business services sector employees who have not only academic knowledge but also practical skills that will enable them to develop a career in business services, which is the fastest growing sector of the Polish economy.

The aim of the program is to enable better preparation of candidates for employment in the sector and complementary activities to promote work in this industry. It is addressed to students, graduates and working people who want to gain employment in the business services and develop skills that will stand out in the labor market and build faster career path.

The course is based on three pillars, including basic knowledge of the sector and its specific, practical skills associated with individual business processes, soft skills and communication related to the effective management of own career.

Implementation of the project ABSL Academy also takes place in collaboration with the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA: http://www.cimaglobal.com/), through which the course participants will be able to obtain the CIMA Certificate in Shared Services. The certificate has been created to support the business services sector in the development of staff and it is based on the course in the form of e-learning (approx. 100 hours of self-study) ending with an examination. The sentence of this examination will be a prerequisite for obtaining credit in the first part of the course ABSL Academy.

The workshops will be taught by top leaders and experts from member companies ABSL (including Alexander Mann Solutions, Arla Foods, Coleman Research, Competence Call Center, EY, Geoban, Thomson Reuters). The course includes a total of 100 hours of e-learning and 96 hours of workshops. The course fee for one participant is 1700 zł. Classes are held in English.

PROGRAM CLASSES ABSL Academy Tri-City

Block 1 - knowledge of the sector

E-learning                              100h

Block 2 - case studies

Block 3 - interpersonal workshops

Partner companies:

Alexander Mann Solutions, Arla Foods, Coleman Research, Competence Call Center,

EY, Geoban, Thomson Reuters

To whom is the program?

The program is aimed at students, graduates and working people who want to gain employment in the business services and skills to help you stand out in the labor market and grow faster career path.

Who teaches?

Classes are taught by professionals working in the Tri-City companies the business services sector.

For more information, please contact:

Dariusz Bazeli, ABSL Tri-City - tel .: 519 517 558, dariusz.bazeli@absl.pl

Wojciech Tyborowski, Project Manager ABSL Academy - tel .: 603 872 123, wojciech.tyborowski@absl.pl

Dr. Magdalena Markiewicz, Faculty of Economics UG - tel .: 58 523-14-28, m.markiewicz@ug.gda.pl

Association of Business Service Leaders (ABSL) is the leading professional body representing the sector of modern business services in Poland. Given the current business climate, economic and political, it is precisely within this sector, Poland can achieve global leadership. ABSL associates shared service centers (Shared Service Centers, SSC) centers, business process outsourcing (Business Process Outsourcing, BPO) and outsourcing of IT (Information Technology Outsourcing ITO) research and development (Research & Development, R & D) and companies supporting the development of the sector. ABSL currently brings together 180 global investors, including Accenture, arvato Services, Capgemini, Carlsberg, Geoban, Google, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Infosys, JLL, MAN, Procter & Gamble, PwC, Shell, Sony, Thomson Reuters, UBS, Xerox.

Tri-City is one of the seven most important centers of modern services for business in Poland. Are located here 106 service centers, which employ over 19 000 people. In February 2016 at a gala CEE Shared Services and Outsourcing Awards in Warsaw, Tri-City has been recognized as "The most dynamically growing location for service projects." Only in 2015, the Tri-City was established nine new service centers, so that the industry will be approx. 2 300 new jobs. The agglomeration so far invested m.in .: Alexander Mann Solutions, Arla Foods, Bayer, Competence Call Center, Coleman Research, First Data, Geoban, Kemira, Metsa, MOL, Sony Pictures, Staples, State Street Bank, Thomson Reuters, ThyssenKrupp, Transcom, Unifeeder, Wipro, WNS.