Utarians, Yogendran (back, third from right), Yong (back, right), and Lee (front, fourth from right) among the 16 top performers at the finals of Malaysia national-level of the challenge on 2 July 2013
Two graduates, Yogendran Mahendran and Yong Yoon Fei, and a final-year student, Lee Wei Ren, of UTAR Actuarial Science programme were among the 54, selected from about 5,000 applicants from 10 economies, who competed in the finals of the international business case competition, Maybank Go Ahead Challenge from 25 to 30 August 2013.
Maybank, a leading banking group in the region, started the challenge last year when it was open to six countries in Asia. This year, it was expanded to 10 economies which were Bangladesh, China, Cambodia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. Maybank received close to 5,000 applications for the challenge during the eight-week submission period in May and June.
Through the challenge, which is open to final-year undergraduates or fresh graduates with less than two years of working experience to showcase their potential to the fullest, Maybank aims to discover the brightest among the participants to be their employees.
Finalists of the competition were offered places in the Global Maybank Apprentice Programme, a two-year programme that puts them through job rotations within key operational areas of their choice, while involving them in group-wide special projects. They will also be assigned a mentor from among senior management, and be sent on an overseas posting at one of Maybank's international offices.
Yogendran's team of six, all of different nationalities, emerged as the second runner-up at the international finals that came with a cash prize of USD10,000. Lee is currently in his final trimester in UTAR.
Yogendran (right) and the rest of the second runner-up team
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