Archive for May 2007

KDU Penang Career Fair 2007, 26 May

Zul • May 24th, 2007 • Career

INTERESTED to be an engineer? Find out the requirements needed for a career in the field at one of the talks at KDU College Penang’s Career Options Day on Saturday. Assoc Prof Dr Eric Goh, the Penang branch chairman of the Institution of Engineers Malaysia, will deliver a talk on ‘Aspirations of the 21st Century [...]



Students attacked teachers on Teacher’s Day

Zul • May 17th, 2007 • Career

Some people get stupid and do otherwise things on special occasions. Is this how teachers’re supposed to be rewarded?
Source: The Star.
While teachers elsewhere were showered with gifts and gratitude, those at SMK Belara in Manir, near here, were pelted with stones and sticks.
Two groups of about 50 students launched the attack on the teachers at [...]



Centres set up to help those seeking jobs overseas

Zul • May 14th, 2007 • Career

The Human Resource Ministry has set up three Malaysian Overseas Workers Management Centres nationwide to help Malaysians seeking jobs overseas.
Labour Department director-general Datuk Ismail Abdul Rahim said the centres in Johor Baru, Kuching and Kota Kinabalu were set up three months ago following complaints from Malaysian workers about their Singaporean employers.
Ismail said that most of [...]



Job Scam in a Job Offer

Zul • May 8th, 2007 • Career

By NELSON BENJAMIN, as reported in The Star Online
JOHOR BARU: D. Saraladevi was looking forward to a job in Singapore that promised a salary of up to S$1,400 (RM3, 220) a month. Turned out it was a job scam. Worse, the woman who made the offer has disappeared with Saraladevi’s money.
Saraladevi, 31, was among some [...]