Azercell Telecom LLC, the leader of mobile communication market
in Azerbaijan, has selected the winners of Student Bursary Program
for the academic year 2019, which is held every year with the view
to support professional growth of students.
This year, 25 students were honored the title of Azercell
Bursars upon multi-staged selection process. Vahid Mursaliyev, CEO
of Azercell Telecom and Eldar Gojayev, Chief for Academic Affairs
of Sabah Groups under the Ministry of Education joined the event,
organized by the company on January 21.
In his speech, Vahid Mursaliyev underlined the high-standing
consistency, sustainability and transparency in corporative social
responsibility policy of Azercell. He also noted that the Annual
Student Bursary and Internship Programs implemented by the company
are investments in the professional development of our youth.
Notably, 1398 students applied to Azercell’s Student Bursary
Program and the selection process covered three stages. The first
stage was the evaluation of students’ online application forms and
documents. In the second stage, 759 students took online tests to
demonstrate their level of logical thinking and English language
proficiency.
66 successful students were invited to face-to-face interviews.
Applicants were evaluated based on several criteria, such as their
academic skills, world outlook and aspirations towards science and
education. In addition to a monthly stipend of AZN 200, the winners
will have a chance to enrich their knowledge about
telecommunications, participate in Azercell’s corporate events and
social activities, receive various trainings, as well as take
internship opportunity at Azercell.
It is worth noting that, 9 of the bursars were selected from
universities in Baku, while 7 were selected from those in regions
and the others from SABAH students within the framework of
memorandum between Azercell and Sabah Groups.
The aim of the Azercell Bursary Program is to encourage the
successful students and young talents with outstanding academic
achievements, support the professional growth of the students with
high potential. Remarkably, the program has been held every year
since 2008 to date, there are more than 180 students from various
universities of Azerbaijan who bear the honorary name of an
Azercell bursar.
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The leader of the mobile communication industry, the largest
taxpayer and the biggest investor of the non-oil sector of
Azerbaijan Azercell Telecom LLC was founded in 1996. With 48 per
cent share of Azerbaijan’s mobile telecom market Azercell’s network
covers 80 per cent of the territory (excluding 20% per cent of the
occupied territories) and 99,8 per cent of population of the
country. Currently, 4,5 million subscribers choose Azercell
services.
Azercell has pioneered an important number of innovations in
Azerbaijan, including GSM technology, advance payment system,
mobile internet services, Metro coverage, 24/7 call centre service,
7 day/week Front Office service, M2M services, one-stop-shopping
approach Azercell Express offices, mobile customer services, Online
Customer Care and Social Media Customer Care services, mobile
e-signature service “ASAN Imza” etc. Azercell deployed first 4G –
LTE services in Azerbaijan in 2012.
According to the results of mobile network quality and wireless
coverage mapping surveys by international systems, Azercell’s
network demonstrated the best results among the mobile operators of
Azerbaijan. Azercell is the only company in Azerbaijan and CIS
region which has been awarded Gold Certificate of International
“Investors in People” Standard.
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