Is Gen-Y known as a group of employees that tires bosses and managers because of their unpleasant working attitude?
Is Gen-Y is a group of more frequent job-hoppers compared to older generation?
Is Gen-Y has too much over-confident to request for high-pay without experience / skills and are contributing unrealistic ideas?
Well, there are too many stereotyped perceptions have placed into Gen-Y, but how true is it? Should we really look deep inside and analyse what the actual truth is?
8TV has come to JobsDB to do an interview on how employers perceive Gen-Y as far as employment and hunting for jobs is concerned; and why Gen-Y has been reflected negatively. Let's discover more from Gen-Y and employers in this coming Sunday (7 August 2011), 12pm on 8TV channel Eyes On You (凡事两极话) programme. Stay tuned!
Are you from Johore or would you like to work there. Well, good news as there would be more than 44,800 vacancies for critical and high-skilled workers in Iskandar Malaysia from now until 2015.
A report from the New Straits Times newspaper noted that employers at the development corridor area had created 193,198 such vacancies through the JobsMalaysia work portal between 2009 until now.
State Human Resources, Science, Technology and Innovation Committee chairman M. Asojan was quoted as saying that the vacancies were in the manufacturing sector, the services sector and others.
"Based on the statistics, the development of Iskandar Malaysia had created more than 200,000 job opportunities.
"With the opening of Johor Premium Outlets, a shopping outlet selling branded items in Kulaijaya, and the Legoland International theme park in the near future, more than 2,000 job opportunities will be created," he said to a question by Datuk Tee Siew Kiong (BN-Pulai Sebatang).
Asojan also said the state government, through Iskandar Regional Development Authority, had come up with a comprehensive masterplan on the feasibility study of the development of Iskandar Malaysia.
"We have come up with an action plan to gauge the supply and demand of the local community in tandem with its human resources. It involves three main strategies -- human resource and talent development as well as building and preserving human resources."
According to the masterplan, there would be 850,000 work opportunities until 2025.
Here you are, in this social function, lots of people around, they’re all mingling, chatting, making small talk, business talk and the occasional golf talk. Suddenly at the corner of your eye, you see this sharp looking gentleman but you weren’t looking at him because he’s smart or good looking, you’re looking at him because “GASP!” His woo ying (“fly” in Cantonese) is open.
You’re just next to him. What do you do? Should you tell him and be the one who embarrasses him? Should you say something? How do say it to him? Do you pull him aside now? But he’s busy talking with the president of Tanzania.
It’s easier not to say anything isn’t it? So silence is golden, or is it?
It’s always difficult to talk to people when something goes wrong, when something is embarrassing or when someone has screwed up. This happens because we don’t want to be the bearer of bad news, we don’t want to embarrass someone, we don’t want to be the one to be the one who upsets people. It’s always easy to talk to people when things are going really well, when things are smooth or when there is good news. But when challenges happen or when bad news is present, it is exactly then that a conversation becomes vitally important. So we talk well when things are good when talking is not vital and we talk badly when things turn sour when talk is vital.
It can be difficult to deal with the employee who’s always late, it can be difficult to deal with the boss who keeps saying something and doing another and it can be difficult to give candid performance feedback. So the question becomes, how do we tell people that their fly is open without causing too much embarrassment? Three tips
1.Be discreet, tell him and only him. Don’t loudly proclaim to the whole room that his fly is open, pull him aside and away from the president of Tanzania, then whisper into his ear “Pssst, your fly is open”. It’s the same in the office, deal with ugly matters only with the person involved, help him save face. He will be grateful.
2.Be quick. If my fly is open, please tell me now before I introduce myself to the whole room on stage during my speech. It will save me a lot of blushes. So like in the office, when you see behavior that may be a problem, deal with it quickly when it happens. You’ll have a much higher chance in affecting change and preventing more problems in the future.
3.Say it nicely. Don’t go “hey, didn’t your father teach you how to zip up your pants?” It sounds absolutely unlikely that anyone would do this, but have you witnessed a bad boss say “didn’t you learn anything in university?” I have and it is very demotivating. Instead, your colleagues need to know that you’re saying these things because you truly have their well-being in mind. For a late colleague, don’t say “you’re late again” say “Patrick, you seem to be coming late a lot recently and I’m concerned”.
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Innovative and revolutionary new features to enable users to multi-task
Kuala Lumpur - 24 June 2010 – JobsDB.com, Asia Pacific’s leading job site, today launched a complete revamp of its website to give millions of jobseekers and employers an enhanced experience in their search for jobs or candidates. Its newest feature, “Dynamic Job Search on Map”, a location-based search interface, allows jobseekers to look at relevant jobs in specified locations. Users can view thousands of jobs on an in-built map on the fly, and these jobs will change as the search criteria is updated and the map is dragged. This feature is a first for any job portal in the region.
Efficient “Dashboard” Design
JobsDB.com’s new website aims to take the job search process to the next level. Focusing on user experience and improved efficiency, the proprietary system utilises a “dashboard” design which allows jobseekers and employers to perform multiple tasks on a single page without irritating page changes and pop-ups frequently experienced by web users. Through a split-screen display, named “Preview Mode”, jobseekers can view up to 100 job templates on the same page. Likewise, in “Resume Preview”, employers can open up to 100 brief or full resumes and process them under the same user-friendly design.
Industry Innovator
Since its inception, JobsDB.com has frequently enhanced its website with innovative and revolutionary designs. In 1998, it was the first to introduce “Job Alert”, emails customised to jobseeker’s search criteria, and the “Jobseeker-controlled Resume Release” function which safeguarded the privacy of its members. The “Paperless Job Fair”, also became a technological showcase for the company. These and other original designs have since become features adopted by the street and other jobsites in the region.
New features to be released in July
JobsDB.com will be launching its latest RMS (Recruitment Management System) with additional ground-breaking features in July.
With the setting up of a Coca-Cola plant in Bandar Enstek, Nilai, expect creation of between 600 and 800 jobs within the plant and 8,000 more at the supplier and distributor levels.
According to media report, this was the pledge made by Coca Cola Company president (Pacific group) Glenn Jordan who noted that the investment was the company’s biggest ever made in Malaysia.
The “green” plant would be built based on the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environment Design) certification which was an international standard for eco-friendly buildings.
The 123,024sq m facility, built on land acquired from TH Properties, is expected to start operations before the end of next year.
The giant conglomerate took only four months after discussions with the Prime Minister to firm up plans to set up a RM1bil plant in Malaysia.
Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said this would help bolster Malaysia’s image as a favourite foreign investment destination.
“We promised them all the support that we could give, and the incentives as well, during discussions in Singapore. I am proud that we have been able to make this a reality within four months,” he said, adding that the investment would be made over a five-year period.
“Coca-Cola has been a global household name for a long time ... I still remember a movie (The God’s Must Be Crazy) where a Coca-Cola bottle fell from the sky,” he said.
Over 36,000 Malaysians were unemployed between October 2008 and December last year, said Deputy Human Resources Minister Datuk Maznah Mazlan.
According to a news report by The Star newspaper, most of the unemployed were those who were laid off from the manufacturing sector which was most badly affected by the economic downturn, especially the 2008 recession in the United States.
“During the world economic crisis, our employment rate was affected too because most of the factories had to close down or were operating at lower cost by laying off many of their workers,” she said.
She also commended companies which had managed to maintain their workers despite posting lesser profits.
However, Maznah said the number of those who lost their jobs was still under control compared to the 84,000 laid off during the Asian economic crisis in 1997.
She was optimistic that the number would come down soon following the country’s encouraging economic performance last year.
She said the ministry managed to get some 29,000 of the laid off workers to be rehired while the rest were offered retraining.
She also advised those who were still jobless to grab the opportunities provided by the Government by attending various skills training programmes to further improve their skills.
Employment into the public sector will be determined by market forces, said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.
He believed the trend where there was more women than men in the public sector would continue into the future because female undergraduates out-number the males in universities, reported The Star newspaper.
“The criterion to join the public sector does not involve the gender issue, but more on the ability to meet the expectations of the Government and the public,” he said.
In Bentong, Women, Family and Community Development Minister Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil said if a survey was conducted at the workplace, it would show that the productivity of women were equally as effective as the men’s.
In Petaling Jaya, Wanita MCA and Wanita Gerakan expressed disgust over the gender-biased statement by Cuepacs secretary-general Ahmad Shah Mohd Zin, who complained about the upward trend of female employees in the civil service.
The number of foreign workers employed in the country has dropped by almost 500,000 over the past three years, The Star newspaper reported.
Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein, who disclosed this, said Immigration Department records showed that 1.59 million foreigners were issued work permits in various sectors last year, less than the 2.06 million in 2006.
“However, we are aware that this does not mean the number of illegally employed foreigners is also on the decline because unethical and irresponsible employers continue to engage these people without considering the negative implications.
“The oversupply of foreign workers must be addressed urgently and that is why the Government is in the midst of beefing up the management and monitoring of foreigners in the country,” he said.
In the report, Hishammuddin said that 100,000 foreigners were granted employment opportunities by the Cabinet Committee on Foreign Workers and Illegal Immigrants between October and December last year following appeals by certain industries.
“Last September, the Cabinet ordered the setting up of a special committee chaired by Human Resources Minister Datuk Dr S. Subramaniam to evaluate and approve applications which met conditions and guidelines so that the serious issue of worker shortages faced by the manufacturing sector could be resolved,” he said, adding that the committee was only a temporary set-up which had ceased to function as of December.
The percentage of employers defaulting on Employees Provident Fund (EPF) contributions dropped from 1.75% in the third quarter to 1.6% in the fourth quarter of last year.
The decrease showed that even during the economic downturn, most employers were committed towards contributing to EPF for their staff, its public relations general manager Nik Affendi Jaafar was quoted as saying in The Star newspaper.
“This could be due to the enforcement measures taken by EPF, as well as their awareness on providing a comfortable retirement for their employees,” he said in a statement.
He said 187 employers were fined between RM1,000 and RM7,000 under Section 43(2) of the EPF Act from October to December last year for not making contributions.
During the same period, 169 civil cases and 2,313 criminal cases were filed in court against defaulting employers.
The EPF also submitted the names of 221 company directors to the Immigration Department to prevent them from leaving the country as provided for under the EPF Act.
Malaysians will be among thousands of would-be migrants to Australia who will have their applications cancelled as part of an Australian government overhaul of the skilled migration programme, Bernama reported.
Australia’s Immigration Minister Senator Chris Evans announced that Canberra was reforming the permanent skilled migration programme to make it demand- rather than supply-driven.
The report noted that highly skilled workers such as healthcare, engineering and mining professionals would be among those most sought after under the new scheme, the minister said in a statement.
He would set a maximum number of offshore general skilled migration visa applications made before Sept 1, 2007 that could be granted.
Evans said the major changes that he would be making included cancelling and refunding the applications of 20,000 prospective migrants currently living overseas and tightening the list of occupations in demand so that only highly skilled migrants would be eligible for a visa.
Good news for all. The Employees Provident Fund (EPF) dividend for 2009 is expected to be higher compared to the 4.5% paid out in the previous year.
The Star newspaper quoted EPF chairman Tan Sri Samsudin Osman as saying that this was due to the local share market’s stable position and good investment returns.
“A meeting on dividend rates will be held this month, while an announcement will be made in March,” he said.
Samsudin, who is also Putrajaya Corporation president, had earlier presented prizes to winners of a fishing competition held in conjunction with Federal Territory Day celebrations.
The report also noted that in December, EPF announced that it obtained RM5.5bil in profits in the third quarter of last year, an increase of RM696.32mil compared to RM4.8bil in the previous quarter.
It's a bit mouthful, but that's the way they wanted it. Administrative assistants involved in secretarial duties in government departments do not want to be called office secretaries.
They instead want their job title changed to “administrative secretary,” said Cuepacs president Omar Osman in a media report.
The Star newspaper quoted Omar as saying taht he had been getting feedback from government servants objecting to a circular dated Dec 21 renaming the job title from administrative assistant (secretarial) to office.
“They are unhappy about the new job title,” Omar said after a briefing on the new office secretary and assistant office secretary scheme at Universiti Putra Malaysia here yesterday.
Omar also hoped that long-serving secretaries with SPM qualification would not be overlooked in the upgrading exercise, adding that the group made up about 55% of those involved in secretarial duties.
A figure not as harrowing as in some o f the developed countries, but about 40,000 workers were retrenched last year as a result of the global economic crisis between 2008 and last year, said Deputy Human Resources Minister Senator Datuk Maznah Mazlan.
She was quoted in the media as saying that the Government had launched the E-Kasih programme to offer training courses to those who were unemployed so that they could look for other jobs in the market.
“We are monitoring the situation and Malaysia has fairly well compared with other countries that were hit by the economic crisis,” she told reporters after handing out seamstress certificates to 199 people at Yayasan Murni, Pengkalan Chepa yesterday.
Yayasan Murni has trained more than 21,000 people since it was set up five years ago and almost all of them had secured jobs.
Let the good times roll. The Economic Planning Unit (EPU) is confident that the country will achieve an economic growth of more than 5% this year based on several positive indicators.
The Star newspaper quoted minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Tan Sri Nor Mohamed Yakcop as saying that one of the indicators was the shift from retrenchment to recruitment in the manufacturing sector since July last year.
He said business confidence and consumer spending was also on the uptrend as loan applications rose by 37.4% while approvals were up by 25% until October last year compared with the same period in 2008.
The report noted that the sales of passenger cars had also showed an increase at 40,569 units up to November last year compared with 36,254 during the same period in 2008.
“The trends are changing and we are confident that 2010 is going to be a good year,” he told a press conference after witnessing the signing of a memorandum of understanding between the Government and the Oxford Business Group on The Report: Malaysia 2010.
Yes, the public transportation system in Malaysia is improving. Hopefully. Commuters in Shah Alam and Subang Jaya will be the next to benefit from the newly-launched RapidBET or Rapid Bus Express Transit system.
According to The Star newspapper, they will join commuters from Kota Damansara and Bandar Sungai Long in Kajang who became the first patrons of the RapidBET system yesterday.
Transport Minister Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat launched the new system at Kota Damansara yesterday.
The two routes are RapidBET1 bus from Kota Damansara to Pasar Seni via the Penchala and Kerinchi Links, and RapidBET2 from Bandar Sungai Long to Pasar Seni via the Grand Saga Highway.
RapidBET is the first of many initiatives from the urban public transport laboratory under the National Key Result Areas (NKRAs) to be implemented.
This looks like in tandem with our deputy Prime Minister’s announcement, as Asian Development Bank (ADB) announced that it expects Malaysia’s economy to return to growth in 2010.
According to a report by The Star Newsapper, the international development finance institution has forecast Malaysia’s gross domestic product (GDP) to grow by 4.5% next year.
It said Malaysia was expected to contract 2.5% in 2009 after registering minus 5.1% in the first half of the year and minus 1.2% in the third quarter.
The newspaper also noted that in a separate Asian Economic Monitor report for December 2009, the Manila-based institution said all the Asean-4 economies were pummeled by the precipitous drop in external demand but in terms of overall economic impact, Thailand and Malaysia were hurt the most.
All is still not that well. Dell Malaysia is letting some 700 workers go via a voluntary separation scheme (VSS) exercise.
According to a report by The Star newspaper, the 700 include those in the operator, supervisory and managerial positions at its Bukit Minyak plant here.
Dell corporate communication senior manager Jasmine Begum said the VSS scheme was being implemented because Dell was transferring the division that manufactured notebooks for Latin America, Canada and US markets to the group’s global manufacturing network.
“This means that the Bukit Minyak plant will only manufacture notebooks, desktops and servers for the South Asian and Australian markets,” she said.
The move would enable Dell Malaysia to be more cost-effective in its operations, reduce delivery time and enhance the quality of the products manufactured, Begum said.
Love the sea? Fancy a maritime job? Fret not, the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) has 2,000 job vacancies nationwide, with various positions up for grabs.
Earlier Bernama report noted that pending the completion of its training centre in 2012, MMEA director-general Datuk Mohd Amdan Kurish hopes the various positions would be filled by that year.
He said the construction of the centre at Sungai Ular in Jerantut, Pahang, was ongoing, adding that it was expected to be fully operational by the end of next year.
"By 2011, the centre is expected to be able to train up to 600 staff and 200 officers at a time.
"The vacancies would be filled in stages to ensure that maritime enforcement activities could be intensified indefinitely," Mohd Amdan said.
Need construction workers? No problem, there are more than 32,000 available for choosing. According to The Star newspaper a force of 12,000 foreign workers and over 10,000 locals registered with the Construction Labour Exchange Centre Bhd (CLAB) can be deployed to any contractor short of manpower.
CLAB chief executive Azlan Mohd Isa said there was no reason for contractors not to make use of them.
He said the 22,000 workers were involved in construction projects throughout the country but were available when their jobs were done.
“We encourage contractors to come to us because it is cheaper to source labour through us than through agents.
“If contractors’ needs do not match our local work pool, we will look to the foreign workforce to fulfil their needs. The aim is to reduce the intake of new foreign workers,” he said.
“Workers registered with us get insurance and compensation benefits and we provide comprehensive welfare to our workers,” Azlan said.
Despite caution about income indequacy post-retirement, the withdrawal have increased last quarter. According to Bernama report, some RM1.97bil was withdrawn under the Employees Provident Fund Retirement Withdrawals in the third quarter of 2009, an increase from the RM1.64bil in the corresponding period last year.
Some RM1.41bil of the RM1.97bil, was withdrawn as Lump Sum Age 55 Withdrawal, up 14.2% from that in Q3 2008, EPF said in a statement on its unaudited results on Wednesday.
EPF chief executive officer Tan Sri Azlan Zainol said the remaining RM557.05mil was withdrawn under the Flexible Age 55 Withdrawal, up 38.05% from the RM403.51mil last year.
“Nonetheless, 72% of retirement withdrawals still consist of lump sum withdrawals. We hope to see this amount decrease over time as more members become increasingly aware that lump sum withdrawal will likely lead to income inadequacy during retirement,” he said.
The report also quoted Azlan as saying members had exercised greater prudence and care in making withdrawals for housing as showed by a more cautious behaviour due to the present economic conditions.
8TV has come to JobsDB to do an interview on how employers perceive Gen-Y as far as employment and hunting for jobs is concerned; and why Gen-Y has been reflected negatively. Let's discover more from Gen-Y and employers in this coming Sunday (7 August 2011), 12pm on 8TV channel Eyes On You (凡事两极话) programme. Stay tuned! 