Of late, I’ve been thinking about the management trainee programme at Citibank, known familiarly as the Management Associate programme, or MA programme for short. This was triggered because of my interactions with a few management trainees from various organisations in the last few weeks. It got me thinking about what made for a good management trainee.
Management trainees are purportedly hired with the potential to be senior leaders in an organisation in the future. The two operative words here are potential and future. The further out one goes, the less accurate the outcome. And potential that is not realised doesn’t mean that the potential didn’t exist. Because of these challenges, management trainees are hand-picked and will be subjected to more stringent selection criteria than a regular hire. The use of AI-supported solutions are almost non-existent in this space because the hiring numbers are small and the management trainees, in a way, represent “outliers”.
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