One of the great things about working for the world’s largest mobile telecoms provider is the international scene.
Participation in the Vodafone Rotation Programme is coveted by many, but experienced by few. Each year, a participant from Vodafone Malta is selected to spend three months working abroad with another Vodafone operating company around the world.
The chosen candidate has to choose three projects that fall within their job responsibilities – for example I had to choose from a selection of Marketing related programmes. Naturally when selecting a project, the candidate does not know where this project will take him, otherwise I am very sure candidates would choose the project based on the operating company location rather than for the nature of the project.
One of the projects I had chosen was Market Segmentation, which was being implemented in a number of companies around the world. When, eventually I was told that the project would take me to Albania my excitement slowly turned into apprehension.
Simply stated Albania is Europe’s best kept secret, in the sense that not much is known about this fascinating country. Guidebooks are practically non existent, and little information could be found on the internet, however the little information that I could find gradually started turning my apprehension into excitement!
The first couple of weeks were tough! Lets face it Albania was not a tourist friendly city, did not understand the concept of credit cards, electricity failed almost every evening, nightlife was limited, cinemas only showed a new film once every ten days, and even worse I did not have a car which meant that I was pretty much cooped up in Tirana, something which left me a bit disappointed.
Having said that I had the opportunity to visit places like Durres and Kruja outside of Tirana, and was lucky enough to go on a weekend trip to the south of Albania which is virgin territory and therefore unspoilt by modern development.
There is a lot to be said about my adventure in Albania so watch this space…….
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