AS a student who has studied in East Malaysia, I can testify that information about career opportunities is lamentably scarce. When it comes to career fairs and recruitment drives, most East Malaysian universities, including the one I attended, are overlooked by firms. On the rare occasion that they make an appearance at these events, they typically do not send their top management to engage with students and career development programmes are often cancelled or scaled down.
The disparity in access to information became clear when I started to participate in student organisations. This opened doors to a wealth of information on companies that were hiring, jobs available and the associated market rate information that would not have been readily available to me otherwise. Moreover, it is not just local students who are affected by this information gap.
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Posted 6 years ago by Pakat Pakat