The Maharat program will enhance local economic development by achieving the following objectives:

• Improve the business and personal skills of recent Jordanian university graduates.
• Create new jobs for recent university graduates.
• Complement and enhance the effectiveness of client services provided by BDC providers.
• Provide a platform to foster the know-how and hands-on- experience of local volunteer experts.

The Maharat Program is set up to offer two different scenarios:

The On-the -Job Maharat Program lasts for six months whereby interns receive a total of 85 hours worth of training courses delivered by SME practitioners and local or international experts in diverse areas such as financial analysis, marketing and human resource management with the inclusion of case studies, group problem solving and public speaking courses.

The Maharat Pioneers focuses on training Jordanian recent graduates from Jordanian universities in fields most demanded by current business environment, such as human resources development, public relations and customer service. A group of 30 graduates are selected at a time with high English and excellent communication skills to attend 120 intensive training hours in one of the above mentioned fields delivered by high caliber professional practitioners. Upon completing the training, a job fair is conducted where around 20 companies from different sectors such as telecommunications, services, and banks are invited to interview the Pioneers with the aim of placing them as full time staff members (employees??).

As an intern with the On-The-Job Maharat Program, the intern works for a six-month period with a stipend that Maharat subsidizes 50% of, at a job that matches the intern’s criteria and skill-set, in projects with TATWEER client enterprises. After the completion of the six-month internship, the TATWEER client enterprise hires the intern as a permanent employee.


Both Maharat On-the-Job and Maharat Pioneers help increase employment, build human capacity and ultimately positively enhancet the competitiveness of Jordanian companies and Jordanian university graduates.