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Canderel founder and CEO Jonathan Wener, at left, with former Concordia Student Union president Amine Dabchy, a recent — and successful — hire. | Photo by Jake Brennan
Beyond donations and acting as the university’s deputy chancellor, Wener has repaid the gesture by filling many of his company’s senior positions with Concordia graduates. Long before it existed, Wener effectively anticipated the ethos of the new Choose Concordians initiative, which encourages graduates to hire fellow graduates.
Wener says he took the wisdom of one of his Concordia professors as words by which to run a business: “Machines depreciate. People appreciate. Invest in people.”
His latest investment is, like Wener, a former student association president.
Growing up in Saudi Arabia, Morocco and France, Amine Dabchy, BA 11, felt destined for a career in diplomacy, like the parents of many of his International School friends.
Upon his arrival at Concordia — alone in a new, frigid country — he applied his diplomatic skills to warm up to new friends, joining every club that interested him. When he met Wener on Concordia’s Board of Governors Real Estate Planning Committee, his life direction changed.
“I thought real estate was just building buildings,” says Dabchy. “But I saw how Concordia’s campus had completely transformed in the seven years since I came to Montreal. I realized real estate is more about shaping neighbourhoods, defining the design of the city, changing lives and dealing with people.”
Wener helped plant, then nurture, Dabchy’s obvious passion, one of the key traits he looks for when hiring, along with integrity, intelligence, humility, perseverance and a team attitude.
Another factor Wener seeks is a diversity of interests, which he finds more in Concordians than in students from more purely academic institutions. “I look very hard at what people do beyond the classroom. Too many students are so wrapped up in studying — book learning, classes, homework — and forget everything else. There is so much more to be had at university if you want to get involved.”
Dabchy concurs. “At Concordia, student life is out there and in your face. You have events every day. Almost everyone you know is involved somehow. It forces you to be more open-minded and think outside the box.”
After undergoing eight tough interviews at Canderel, in May 2011, Dabchy landed the job of analyst, leasing and development, and has since been promoted to coordinator special projects, development. He clearly loves his work.
Sitting in Canderel’s beautifully appointed offices, Dabchy sounds almost as though he’s reading from Wener’s life blueprint. “I never thought I would be so grateful to a university,” he says. “Thanks to Concordia, I met my closest friends, I got my job and I travelled to Uganda and Israel as a volunteer. The university is like my second parents. Who knows where I will be in 10 to15 years? But I will never forget Concordia.”
Source: http://www.concordia.ca/now/communi...magnate-helps-fellow-alumni-build-careers.php
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Canderel founder and CEO Jonathan Wener, at left, with former Concordia Student Union president Amine Dabchy, a recent — and successful — hire. | Photo by Jake Brennan
Beyond donations and acting as the university’s deputy chancellor, Wener has repaid the gesture by filling many of his company’s senior positions with Concordia graduates. Long before it existed, Wener effectively anticipated the ethos of the new Choose Concordians initiative, which encourages graduates to hire fellow graduates.
Wener says he took the wisdom of one of his Concordia professors as words by which to run a business: “Machines depreciate. People appreciate. Invest in people.”
His latest investment is, like Wener, a former student association president.
Growing up in Saudi Arabia, Morocco and France, Amine Dabchy, BA 11, felt destined for a career in diplomacy, like the parents of many of his International School friends.
Upon his arrival at Concordia — alone in a new, frigid country — he applied his diplomatic skills to warm up to new friends, joining every club that interested him. When he met Wener on Concordia’s Board of Governors Real Estate Planning Committee, his life direction changed.
“I thought real estate was just building buildings,” says Dabchy. “But I saw how Concordia’s campus had completely transformed in the seven years since I came to Montreal. I realized real estate is more about shaping neighbourhoods, defining the design of the city, changing lives and dealing with people.”
Wener helped plant, then nurture, Dabchy’s obvious passion, one of the key traits he looks for when hiring, along with integrity, intelligence, humility, perseverance and a team attitude.
Another factor Wener seeks is a diversity of interests, which he finds more in Concordians than in students from more purely academic institutions. “I look very hard at what people do beyond the classroom. Too many students are so wrapped up in studying — book learning, classes, homework — and forget everything else. There is so much more to be had at university if you want to get involved.”
Dabchy concurs. “At Concordia, student life is out there and in your face. You have events every day. Almost everyone you know is involved somehow. It forces you to be more open-minded and think outside the box.”
After undergoing eight tough interviews at Canderel, in May 2011, Dabchy landed the job of analyst, leasing and development, and has since been promoted to coordinator special projects, development. He clearly loves his work.
Sitting in Canderel’s beautifully appointed offices, Dabchy sounds almost as though he’s reading from Wener’s life blueprint. “I never thought I would be so grateful to a university,” he says. “Thanks to Concordia, I met my closest friends, I got my job and I travelled to Uganda and Israel as a volunteer. The university is like my second parents. Who knows where I will be in 10 to15 years? But I will never forget Concordia.”
Source: http://www.concordia.ca/now/communi...magnate-helps-fellow-alumni-build-careers.php
