The problem with fresh grads

By P Aruna, The Star

PETALING JAYA: Poor perspective -including asking for as well much money - is a chief reason because employers shy away from hiring uninformed graduates. Another common censure is which many graduates are bad in English.

A survey by online recruitment agency Jobstreet.com showed which 55% of employers cited impractical expectations of salaries while 48% of them pronounced bad English was a categorical reason because Malaysian uninformed graduates from both public as well as private institutions remain unemployed.

While prior surveys named bad English as a categorical cause for unemployment, bad perspective has now surfaced a list, pronounced its chief handling military officer Suresh Thiru.

He pronounced their attitudes were so bad which a little did not even worry to surprise a companies if they were running late or incompetent to attend scheduled interviews.

It was voiced which a series of jobless graduates had increasing from 65,500 to 71,600 nonetheless a altogether stagnation rate had dropped from 3.4% last year to 3.1% during a initial entertain of this year.

Another study by recruitment agency Kelly Services showed which uninformed graduates asked for stretchable working hours as well as approaching their work to house their personal life, not vice versa.

Its selling director Jeannie Khoo pronounced employers were additionally incited off by a lackadaisical perspective as well as lack of expostulate to improve among most of them.

They have a misconception which they can consequence tall ! salaries at entry-level. They enter a banking attention awaiting to consequence RM3,000 while a market rate is only RM2,20! 0, she s aid.

PricewaterhouseCoopers Malaysia conduct of recruitment Salika Suksuwan pronounced a little candidates had most offers in palm but acted unprofessionally in rejecting pursuit offers - by not turning up for interviews or a initial day at work.

We infrequently have to call them as well as remind them about a scheduled talk when they didn't turn up, she said.

Talent Corp CEO Johan Mahmood Merican urged uninformed graduates not to make final upon their salary.

It is more critical to join a company which can rise your skills as well as prepare you for destiny opportunities, he said.

In a related development, Human Resource Deputy Minister Datuk Maznah Mazlan pronounced half of a field who purebred with a JobsMalaysia portal (www.jobsmalaysia.gov.my) had found employment.

Speaking when launching a Graduan Aspire 2011 practice fair yesterday, she pronounced about 300,000 pursuit field were now purebred with a website.


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