February 5th, 2010 — Career
Going to work every morning is a challenge especially when you hate your job. Getting up at 7 am and be at work before 8.30 am seems to be easy but when you have no motivation to work, you are in a tough situation, every day.
What causes the negativities within you? Why aren’t you happy to go to work? This seems to be happening to most of us, middle class workers.
There are several causes of negativities among employees (us) and here are five of them:
- Excessive workload
Who likes to get tons of work and half the income? I am sure that most of us would love to get the job done as soon as possible but when you have tons of work ahead of you, the interest and patience are wearing thin. You started to feel like slave.
- Too concerned with the management’s ability to lead the company towards success
Some times, things look good on the outside but we never know what it really looks like on the inside. For example, the management of your company might be doing great in managing the whole company but perhaps they have something to cover up, who knows? It is easy to smell something fishy especially when some people are trying to hide something from the middle class workers (us). Why hide? We are all working for the same company!
- Worried about the future, income and retirement
How is your future in the company? Are you getting a raise this year? What about your retirement plan? Are you prepared for retirement by the time you are supposed to be retired? These are the questions that keep playing in our mind. How can we improve our performance when we have to do all the job, there is no possibility of getting a promotion and we are earning low income?
- Boring jobs with no challenge
You have to sort the mail, type letters, put on the stamps when there are better things you can do like contribute your brilliant ideas for the many projects your company are handling. You started to think, “I am useless”.
- No recognition for contribution especially when the pay is not commensurate with your excellent performance
So, you have done something quite remarkable and definitely help raise the performance of the company but you are not being recognised for your effort. You started to think “why am I doing this?”.
How to turn negativities into positivities?
Employers will have to do something real soon before losing all the brilliant staff. Find out what your employees need in order to offer them better benefit.
February 3rd, 2010 — Career
More universities and colleges in Malaysia are organizing career fairs nowadays. It is a value-added service provided to their graduates and final year students.
For employers, this is an opportunity to hire and fill up their entry-level positions. The investment in renting and setting up a career booth varies. With a standard shell scheme booth that comes with 3m x 3m panels, company name displayed on booth, company name listed in the program book as well as their career fair website plus meals can be as low as RM450 per day. But usually with such package, the fair will run for at least two days, like in the case of Uniten, OR three days, in the case of UKM and USM.
Manpower is needed to man the booth. Usually personnel from the Human Resource department or the hiring department will be stationed at the booth for it only makes sense that job seekers can talk directly to someone from the company that is able to provide all the required information about the job and the company.
But, what if you are facing a budget and manpower constraint? Are there any alternatives? Good news is yes. Allyhunt provides the service of promoting the positions of employers that purchased their job posting package during these fairs. Currently, Allyhunt is providing an awesome deal for their job posting package. Check out here to find out more.
As for some up and coming career fairs, these are the ones that are taking place this and next month:-
1. Universiti Tenaga Nasional Career Fair
Date: 3rd & 4th February 2010
Time: 9 am to 5 pm
2. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Career Fair
Date: 23rd, 24th & 25th February 2010
Time: 9 am to 5 pm
Venue: DECTAR, UKM
3. Universiti Sains Malaysia Career Fair
Date: 5th to 7th March 2010
Time: 9 am to 5 pm
Venue: Dewan Utama Pelajar, USM
4. TARC Career Fair 2010 (ACCA/CIMA Students)
Date: 9th March 2010
Time: 9:30 am to 5 pm
Venue: Club-House Function Room, TARC KL Campus
5. UCSI University Career Fair 2010
Date: 10th to 11th March 2010
Time: 10 am to 4 pm
Venue: Multipurpose Hall, Level 4, UCSI University
6. UTP Technology, Education & Career (TEC) 2010
Date: 30 to 31 March 2010
Time: 9 am to 5 pm
Venue: Chancellor Hall, UTP
Source: http://www.allyhunt.com/cms/career-fair-listings
If you are a job seeker and unemployed, do I have to add more? Spread your net wide. Who knows, your dream job may just be a few steps away!
February 2nd, 2010 — Career
Presentation is one of the key skills you will be assessed not only when you’re in college but throughout your career life. Master this skill and granted, a rewarding career awaits you not too far away on the horizon.
The time will come where you may be required to do PowerPoint presentation in your thesis, during the job interview, in your weekly office meeting, speaking in seminars, when applying for business loans and many other events or activities in your life.
Here are 5 easy steps you can create an effective PowerPoint presentation:
1. Plan first on paper
Don’t kick start things by opening your PowerPoint and then simply start doing it. Do the good deeds first i.e. think of your theme, layout, design, number of slides and the time available to complete your presentation. Jot down all the key information you intend to use in your PowerPoint presentation so that you don’t missed them when you’re creating your slides.
2. Keep it simple
With PowerPoint presentation, there is always gonna be this inherent problem – most of the time, the information is just too much to swallow. It gets worse as many of the words cramped are those unnecessary (and repeated) connectors such as can, will, is, might be, possibly and bla bla.
Instead of using those lengthy phrases, simplify them into bullet points or phrase clouds and only choose to insert the important keywords. Let the audience connect the dots and cross the Ts. Remember, bullet kills, but bullet points do not. They are here to make your (and other people’s) life easier.
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February 2nd, 2010 — All Things Malaysia
Like it or not, the Malaysian police force are getting getting salary raise.
Under the new pay scheme, policemen from the rank of sergeants in the PDRM (Polis Diraja Malaysia) and above will enjoy new salary and allowances.
Those with the inspector rank are the biggest gainers and will be getting a starting salary of RM2,060 compared to the previous salary of RM1,492. Students who finish Diploma and SPM can also now join the force directly as sergeants with a starting basic salary of RM1,500. The previous pay was RM890.
With the introduction of the new pay scheme, an inspector can now take home more than RM3,000 salary which covers the basic pay, incentives, cost of living allowance (COLA) and housing allowance. To rank as an inspector, one will need to have a min degree qualification.
Of late, the police force has been a subject of criticism by the public and certain quarters in the country mainly due to the increasing crime statistics, and a number of seemingly unsolved high profile crimes. Let’s just hope they will work harder to safeguard the nation now.
The pay raise and allowance scheme came three years after it was recommended by the Royal Commission in 2007.
