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The Wrong Way To Advertise Job Vacancy
2008-05-12 03:49:00 There are many wrong ways to advertise job opening and vacancy, and the example below is one of them. This is one of the recent job adverts posted by a company in one of the very popular online recruitment websites in Malaysia. You can probably guess which one but that is not the main point ... More About: Wrong , Vacancy , Advertise
58 Is The New Retirement Age
2008-05-11 11:15:00 58 years old is now the new retirement age for the employees in publics service, extended 2 years from the current 56. The change will take effect beginning on 1 July 2008. The new regulation also will give option for those who have reached 56 years old to opt for retirement, or continue until 58. While ... More About: Retirement
Job Interview Case Study: Customer Service
2008-05-10 16:11:00 Chot is presently working with Aquarius Hotel in Kuala Lumpur as a Customer Service Executive and is now seeking for other employment opportunities and boost her career to new height. She has been invited to attend an interview with TIME Logistics, a shipping and freight forwarding company based in Petaling Jaya, Selangor. Chot is applying for ... More About: Study , Interview
Little Things That Can Break, or Make, Your Career
2008-05-10 00:56:00 I know from working experience that there are elements that can make your career a failure or a success. Among the potentially bad things that can ruin your career are: 1. A blunder or gaffe about a manager’s name who you have met before and are presumed to know by now. Continuously getting his or her ... More About: Break , Career , Make , Things
Flight Attendant Job With Cathay Pacific
2008-05-09 11:11:00 Cathay Pacific Airways is a Hong Kong based airline co-founded by an American and an Australian back in 1946, and started its first flight out of Shanghai. From a small start up companied registered with HK$2, it underwent a massive expansion since the 1960s with the take over of its rivals and then other smaller ... More About: Flight , Attendant
Yayasan KLK Scholarship Award 2008
2008-05-09 09:16:00 KLK or Kuala Lumpur Kepong Berhad is a public listed company with diverse core business operations in manufacturing, plantation, retail and property development and has also, in recent years expanded into resource-based manufacturing encompassing oleochemicals as well as rubber and cocoa processing. The plantation remains as one of the company’s largest contributors, having a land size ... More About: Scholarship , Award , 2008
ExxonMobil Walk-In Interview, 10 May 2008
2008-05-08 10:30:00 In 1999, two major oil companies, Exxon and Mobil merged to become the largest oil company in the world. In 2007, the company left another mark by becoming the world’s largest company by revenue, recording over $400 billion of annual revenues. The Malaysia operation encompasses the exploration and oil & gas production (upstream), refining and marketing ... More About: Interview , Editor , Walk , 2008
10 Top Pharmaceutical Companies in Malaysia
2008-05-07 17:56:00 Following are world’s 10 top health and pharmaceutical companies with presence in Malaysia . While many of them have major facilities and manufacturing plants in Malaysia, a few have representatives who drive the sales and marketing functions of the companies. These are notable companies with strong reputation and strong background which are targeted by many top performers ... More About: Companies , Pharmaceutical
Test: Do You Have Entrepreneur Mindset?
2008-05-06 08:59:00 Do you have what it takes to be an entrepreneur? Can you be the next towering Malaysian and rank yourself alongside the likes of Syed Mokhtar, Robert Kuok or Lim Goh Tong? Test yourself with this short test, called the Guessing Test, which assesses your reaction towards particular circumstances. You will be given a series of ... More About: Entrepreneur , Editor , Mindset
?The Boss?
2008-05-06 02:10:00 I would like to share with you this article by Earl Nightingale, which i received more than a year ago and it is one of the best content article that i have ever read. I wish to share with you and although this article is quite long..it is worth the read. By Earl Nighthingale. I want to ... More About: Boss , The Boss
Motorola Walk-In Interview, 10 May 2008
2008-05-05 04:56:00 Despite the recent unrest and gossips surrounding it’s future, Motorola Penang is set to expand its workforce size, stamp its presence as one of top manufacturing companies in Penang soil, and is now preparing for the next round of major hiring. A walk-in interview will be held at its usual venue, Equatorial Hotel in Bukit ... More About: Interview , Editor , Walk , 2008
How To Determine A Problem Solver
2008-05-05 04:32:00 In my years of interviewing and sitting with interviewers in the course of finding the right talent for the right job, one key area that is quite important to know is the problem solving area. After you’ve chosen several candidates to interview, it’s time to determine if these candidates have problem solving skills. When someone ... More About: Problem
No Minimum Wage in Malaysia, Yet
2008-05-04 13:42:00 No minimum wage will be introduced in Malaysia pretty soon, in spite of the mounting pressure from the Malaysian Trade Union Congress, MTUC. According to the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, the introduction of a minimum wage ‘requires a thoughtful and careful assessment’. The PM has also raised concern for increase in inflation rate ... More About: Minimum Wage , Minimum
Eric Leong and His Casa Impian
2008-05-04 12:30:00 The popular interior designer, Eric Leong was born in Kluang, Johor and completed his education in Johor and Singapore. He holds 2 major academic qualifications - Degree in Business Studies, and later Degree in Interior Designing. He has been collecting home-decor magazines since his youth time, and often become a ‘consultant’ to his mother, suggesting improvements ... More About: Casa
MY Career & Education Fair 2008, MidValley
2008-05-04 08:40:00 MY Career & Education Fair is organized to provide job opportunities for fresh graduates and job seekers, as well as open up opportunities for students making the right choice for their tertiary studies. The event creates a platform between the private and government sectors in the education and employment industry to assess and address the unemployment ... More About: 2008
MECD?s Skim Usahawan Siswazah
2008-05-03 05:28:00 MECD’s Skim Usahawan Siswazah or its abbreviation SUS is a 5-day training course intended to nurture young Malaysian entrepreneurs especially those who have recently (or not so recently) graduated. It is part of the many programs and training initiatives provided by the MECD, which stands for Ministry of Entrepreneur and Co-operative Development, set up in ...
Tan Sri Nasimuddin Amin (1955-2008)
2008-05-02 11:25:00 Tan Sri Nasimuddin Amin was the founder of NAZA Group of Companies, one of the biggest automobile companies in Malaysia. He was an exemplary Malaysia entrepreneur, building an empire entirely from scratch. The group was established in 1974, while he was till a teenager. His habit of saving money, as well as his diligence in helping ... More About: 2008
How to Work with a Recruiter
2008-05-02 01:20:00 Working with recruiters often feels like a guessing game. It’s nerve-wracking for job seekers to learn the process as they go. They wonder how to make time to scout, screen and interview recruiters during the workday. Maybe you have other roadblocks that freeze your progress - trying to sell yourself, remembering ‘everything’ you’ve ever done ... More About: Work
Malaysia Space University in the Making?
2008-05-01 05:46:00 If Alabama, US has Space Camp for kids, some people have bigger ambition for Malaysia , which is building the region’s first Space Science University for tertiary students. Yesterday, a co-partnership between a local company and a foreign investor is said to be in the planning to build an RM6.1 billion tertiary institution focused on space ...
7 Great Malaysian Career Achievers
2008-04-30 02:39:00 How has your career progressed for the past 1 year? Are you on the right path to achieving your goals? Or, perhaps it is just another year, another day and another pipe dream? While others have proven they can be on top of the world, are we slowly yet surely sinking into the sea of ... More About: Malaysian , Great , Career , Pick , Editor
Surviving at Workplace - 3 Open Secrets
2008-04-30 02:11:00 Now, it is no secret. Work is hard. Surviving in a workplace is hard. Gone are the days where people stay loyal to one company their entire life. My mother worked 1 job for 30 years before she retired. Growing up, I was amazed with that fact and I told myself when I got my ... More About: Workplace , Open , Secrets
7 Career Blogs in Malaysia You May Want to Read
2008-04-30 00:44:00 The country lacks the number of career blogs but that does not mean there are no resourceful ones out there. The following are some examples of the career blogs in Malaysia (and run by Malaysians) you may want to read and bookmark. At least, these are the blogs that I visit on frequent basis. Other than ... More About: Blogs , Read , Career
eFiling Crashing With 1 Day to Go
2008-04-29 03:37:00 With one day to go for tax payers to submit their income tax return, the LHDN’s propriety online system, eFiling has been malfunctioning and crashing down, as well as giving error messages. Tomorrow, 30 April 2008 is the deadline for submission of BE2007 tax form. People have been swarming the LHDN offices for the past few ...
Not Enough Doctors in Malaysia
2008-04-29 01:13:00 It is quite generally known that Malaysia does not have sufficient doctors, but the figure revealed by the Ministry of Health yesterday is quite disturbing. The country is currently short of 9,000 doctors and specialists, especially in the 3 distinguished fields - pharmacy, dentistry and surgery. The number makes up 40% of the vacancy in the ... More About: Doctors
New Job Scam Which is Not So New
2008-04-28 13:18:00 You don’t need your own vehicle; you can be 99 years old and blind as a bat. But fret not; you are only RM200 away from your dream job. Housewives, fresh graduates and college students flip through the classifieds daily looking for ways to make some pocket money. Data entry, envelope-stuffing and box-folding sound easy ... More About: Scam
7 Ways to Think More Positively
2008-04-28 12:45:00 When looking for a new job it can be difficult to stay motivated. You?ll often get into a rut where it seems like nothing is ever going to go right for you. But there are many techniques to changing your own fortune. One of them is to think like a rich person. This may sound ...
Job Seeker - Look From The Employer?s Eye
2008-04-28 02:30:00 The complaint goes on. Why aren’t any companies hiring fresh graduates? If no one gives freshies a chance, where can they get one? I can bet you, almost 95% of new jobseekers will say it out (LOUD). The painful fact is true..most companies don’t hire fresh graduates and this trend is unlikely to change in ... More About: Employer
10 Established Recruitment Agencies in KL
2008-04-27 12:32:00 1. Kelly Services An American-origin company, Kelly Services provides temporary staffing, outsourcing, payroll, vendor-on-site and permanent (full time) placement services. Kelly operates in more than 30 countries worldwide, listed in NASDAQ, and became one of the earliest foreign recruiters to have entered Malaysia. The recruitment agency provides employment to more than 700,00 people worldwide annually. Address: 17/02, ... More About: Recruitment , Agencies
Chef Wan, Malaysia?s Celebrity Cook
2008-04-27 04:50:00 Chef Wan holds many tags and roles - professional chef, ambassador, actor, motivator, speaker, host, coach, critic, entrepreneur and author. All these from one thing he is good at - food. Food makes him famous. Food makes him rich. Food makes him travel all over the world. He has to date cooked for many famous personalities ... More About: Malaysia , Celebrity , Profile , Chef , Cook
How To Know If a Job is a Scam
More articles from this author:2008-04-26 12:13:00 Deputy Human Resources Minister, Datuk Noraini Ahmad has urged the job seekers to be careful and conduct background check before applying for job, or accepting any job offer. More and more job seekers are being victimized by scammers and criminals in the recent years, and to make matter worse, some of them were even caught carrying ... More About: Scam 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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