The Challenging Adventures of Careers and Education – 2013 adventures leading into an interesting 2014 *Image source: iStockphoto.com
 
2013 adventures leading into an interesting 2014
Two setups (in South Africa) pushing forward brain power and smart thinking as a means of a challenge!  
 
-The JSE Liberty Investment Challenge – creating a market place for tomorrows trading legends. 2013 proved a competitive challenge, 2014 is expected to better this! Also check out the challenges dedicated schools website.
 
-The International Hotel Schools Boot Camp – a bursary challenge for the budding hospitality champion. Dynamic and out the box, this has become an annual fixture in hospitality industry in harnessing future talent!

The Global Internship adventure – EY has set out to bring together its future leaders with a global internship conference. Quite literally bridging serious business with a fun adventure – the 2013 conference was hosted at Disney World in Orlando, Florida and had a strong social media presence showcasing the event. If 2013 is anything to go then 2014 is set for another successful global adventure!
 
Bridging the Gap between Continents - The Southern Africa Initiative of German Business – SAFRI in association with Mercedes-Benz South Africa provides an internship platform for individuals to work at Daimler and other companies in Germany! Named the Students Experience Programme (STEP) this is an ongoing talent opportunity bridging Africa and Europe together!  
 
The top business adventure for budding young entrepreneurs - has to be the annual Spark Entrepreneurship Challenge in Auckland. With New Zealand being positioned as one of the top places on the planet to start a business – Auckland now presents the perfect hub for start-up businesses. 2014 should be – as always with this challenge – a great showcase of some of the most creative young business minds around!
 
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