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How to win in the job market?

Saturday, June 6, 2009 8:34 No Comments

I gave this speech last Tuesday, 2-Jun’09 during our fortnightly Vista Penang Toastmasters meeting.
My fellow Toastmasters & Guest,
Projected in 2009 the unemployment rate in Malaysia will reach above 4% from the average of 3% annually. Basically, about 400 thousand people will be aggressively looking for a job in Malaysia. Out of that as per Ministry [...]

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To find a job – Part 2: Getting to where you want to be

Sunday, May 31, 2009 21:57 2 Comments

In Part 1, we have learnt how to use the result from your personality test to match a suitable job type. Even if you have found your suitable job type, don’t just rush into your job search focusing into that particular job type only without really understanding where you want to be i.e. what is [...]

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To find a job – Part 1: Identifying appropriate job

Friday, May 1, 2009 11:00 No Comments

In the previous articles I’ve written about “Looking for a job”, my focus was more into personality matching with a suitable job. More or less by now, you should have some idea about some tools available to help you in assessing your job suitability with your personality. Personally, I would recommend MBTI as one of the best [...]

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A degree doesn’t guarantee the basic skills needed to get a job

Monday, April 13, 2009 13:41 No Comments

By Mike Collings, Author, Saving American Manufacturing

“Whether it is high school, community college or a 4- year college, the emphasis needs to be on weaving more skill sets into education curriculums to provide a shot at better paying jobs.”

        For the last 20 years the government mantra has been, “Get a college education and [...]

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Personality test : Career Key

Sunday, November 23, 2008 22:45 No Comments

In last August, I wrote about MBTI as one of the personality assessment to match a suitable career path based on your own personalities. Today, I’ll continue on another personality assessment being developed by Career Key.
 
I do find the website by Career Key to be self explanatory; hence I’ve decided just to share the link for [...]

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Personality test: Job matching using MBTI

Monday, August 25, 2008 12:06 No Comments

I came across to Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) last year when I was working on an international assignment with a team of colleagues from the US, UK & Malaysia. Since this was the first time we work together as a team, we definitely do not know each other before and working as a team requires us to know [...]

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Personality test: Job matching

Sunday, June 29, 2008 12:08 No Comments

For those who have been following the progress of my blog will realize that in this weekend I will only be publishing 1 article; not as usual 2 articles/weekend. Actually I’m tight up with the preparation for a career talk in UITM (University Technology MARA) in early July. I will share this exciting experience in one of [...]

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Why You are looking for a job? – Part 2

Sunday, May 11, 2008 20:27 3 Comments

First of all thanks to Azizul & Shafik for their valuable comments in Part 1. Please register to read their very interesting comments.
 
In summary, Azizul commented on my idealistic approach on why you are looking for a job while Shafik was asking if the CMS only covers the job search process only or beyond that. [...]

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Why You are looking for a job? – Part 1

Sunday, May 4, 2008 18:32 2 Comments

This is the first question that you MUST ask yourself when you are starting to look for a job. I’m looking for a job because……..
 
It can be any reason (no right or wrong answer) but it must be specific and crystal clear.
 
Why is this question important? Well, let me share from my real life experience…
 
As [...]

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