The Samsung Engineering Academy and Samsung Innovation Campus programmes offer electronics, coding, software development, IoT and AI skills to develop technicians, technologists and engineers across the country to address the critical technical and engineering skills shortage.
An executive board member at Samsung SA, Shivanda is responsible for heading up the logistics, supply chain management, order management and process innovation divisions under the business operations and innovation group portfolio, as well as transformation, public affairs and corporate social responsibility.
Samsung SA’s corporate social investment programme is not wholly altruistic, he says. “Nobody needs an expensive new TV or an updated phone every two years. The only way for Samsung SA to grow its business is to be part of the corporates that actively grow the economy and put more people into employment so that they can have the disposal income to afford our products.
Graduates who want to climb the corporate ladder too quickly rob themselves of the opportunity to acquire knowledge and expertise that will position them to add value further on in their careers“Graduates today are impatient to be promoted rather than focusing on understanding their vertical thoroughly and then using that expertise to add value in another area,” he says.