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Quah, Seng-Sun
Penang, Malaysia
I wrote this article today in the JobStreet Blog in my capacity as the Content Manager. It’s a shame if I do not reproduce an extract here because privacy of personal data is suddenly becoming a big issue in Malaysia, all because some politicians found themselves on CTOS Sdn Bhd’s blacklist of names.
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When you are attending a job interview, you are always told to be on your best behaviour.
What this usually means is that outwardly, you are expected to dress right for the interview and mind what you do and say. You are also expected to know your employer by understanding their market and what they do. [...]
I’ve just completed a talk about resumes at the Penang Caring Society (Kompleks Masyarakat Penyayang) in front of a receptive audience of about 70 to 80 people and one of my focus was on developing one’s soft skills.
Generally, we take soft skills for granted and there’s little attempt to really explain what this term means. [...]
Not long ago, my friend, Raymond, was living through a personal crisis. I bumped into him recently. The last time I met him, he was with a well-known local company bringing in impressive sales. He is still in the sales line but now with a different company.
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In an article in today’s The Sunday Star (18 Mar 2007), Deputy Prime Minister Dato’ Seri Najib Tun Razak was asked: What do you think can be done to improve the level of English in the country?
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This is not the first time I am writing about job scams but a recent case that was reported in The Star on 14 Mar 2007 certainly took the cake.
When a team of police officers raided a house in Taman Pandan Ria in Ampang, they found 16 youths who were held captive in the house [...]
Scam. The very word spells danger, unease, regret among people who have fallen victims to scam artists. Everytime I hear this word, I keep thinking about the illegal pyramid schemes that cheat people out of their money. I also keep thinking about the infamous Nigerian email scams that somehow continue to con gullible people worldwide [...]
About two weeks ago, I was at a local university to discuss a project with them. Our conversation turned to the proficiency of the English language among the new student intakes.
The lecturers I was in discussion with said that every student that enters the public universities is required to sit for the Malaysian University English [...]
John Gokongwei Jr is the founder of the JG Summit Group in the Philippines. If you haven’t heard about JG Summit, let me tell you that it is one of the largest conglomerates in the Philippines with a 50-year history. The Group’s business spans many industries including food, aviation, mobile communication, real estate, financial [...]
Do you know that there are several ways that we can waste time? We do not think of time as a commodity but it is! Time is very limited and yet, we do not really appreciate what we have.
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Job seekers are often faced with a dilemma when they write their resumes. Should they or shouldn’t they list their references in their resumes? I’ve been asked this so many times in my talks around the campuses in Malaysia.
There are two schools of thought. One says that it is quite all right to name the [...]
Life is full of risk. It permeates our society. Whatever we do, we always have to contend with risk.
That is why there is always insurance to enable you to insure your life or your property. But not everyone or everything is insurable.
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You know, we have been told so many times by our Ministers, either in Parliament or in media reports, that there are about 60,000 unemployed graduates in the country.
We are also told that 70% of these unemployed graaduates are from the public universities, 26% are from private colleges and universities and the remaining 4% [...]
When JobStreet.com ran a survey among a cross-section of senior managers and managers in multi-national corporations and large local companies in 2005, the results revealed a lot of short-comings among fresh graduates.
Here are the top 10 reasons why fresh graduates remain unemployed. Oh, and by the way, even gainfully employed people can benefit from knowing [...]
