Graduates too picky on jobs
By ZAZALI MUSA, MARCH 2012
JOHOR BARU: Jobs are plenty in the country but many fresh graduates are not realistic and remain choosy when it comes to seeking employment.
Hiring agent JobStreet.com chief executive officer Mark Chang said one of the most prevalent issues among them are high expectations on drawing good salary.
He added that others factors include a mismatch between the industries and the universities where many graduates are not marketable.
“Parents also play a part where they would rather have their children working closely to their hometown and not willing to part with them,” he said.
Seeking the best: Many unemployed graduates are out there looking for jobs, and some are choosy and bidding their time to find the right job.Chang commented on this at a lecture called ‘Starting a Company: the JobStreet Story’ at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) Skudai recently.
The lecture series is part of the UTM’s programme to encourage its undergraduates to become entrepreneurs and job providers upon completing their studies.
He said that on the average, there were about 30,000 new jobs that were being offered on online job portals monthly in the country with many of the vacancies in the sales and marketing, IT, construction and manufacturing activities.
Chang said on-line jobs applications are getting popular in the region among job seekers and companies as it reduced certain work such as processing application papers.
“Applying online is just the first round of the job application process and it does not guarantee that employers will hire you immediately,” he stressed.
On whether a job seeker is able to secure employment, Chang said this depended entirely on the second round of the interviewing process.
He also advised the undergraduates to polish up their soft skills while studying as it would help prepare them for job interviews.
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