[WATCH] Unable to get jobs, engineering grads settle for delivering food

Nabihah Hamid Fikri Ghazali Hasmizar Hassan Nabihah Hamid, Fikri Ghazali, Hasmizar Hassan Updated 6 years ago · Published on 19 Sep 2019 11:00AM · 4 Comments

Twenty-four year-old Amirul Syaqir Anuar dreamt of becoming an aircraft engineer and put in the work for several years to earn his degree in the field.

But the paper degree has not helped him achieve his dream; instead, he is one of many other engineering graduates, tooting their motorcycle horns as they navigate traffic doing food deliveries.

Graduate unemployment has been an issue for Malaysia for several years, and despite calls for universities to work more closely with industries to ensure skills and jobs are matched, the problem remains consistent.

The Statistics Department recorded 516,600 unemployed graduates in the first quarter of 2019. – September 19, 2019.

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  • Is he and the other engineering grads products of the Matric system?

    Posted 6 years ago by Yoon Kok · Reply

  • Fight lah on race and religion some more, see who will invest in Malaysia? Less and less jobs with more and more graduates, u cry oso no tear. Boycott whatever and whoever products some more, soon graduates need to fight for delivery jobs. Bangsat.

    Posted 6 years ago by James Wong · Reply

  • I'm an engineering graduate too. Now in business/marketing position. Look into the brighter side. I believe engineering taught us to understand complex things and simplify it. So everything else is just a dots, spot the pattern, make something out of it. Trust me, understand your surrounding and turn it into something else. Don't just follow the herds to live, survive! Engineer-it!

    Posted 6 years ago by SANISAH RUWIYAH · Reply

    • Well done. Engineers are supposed to be trained to think in an analytical and logical manner unlike the non-engineers who are only trained to think logically. This is why banks etc like to hire engineers to be analysts. Don't know about the quality of those engineers who got into uni via the matric system though. After all, these are the under achievers and under performers who need a back door into uni in the first place.

      Posted 6 years ago by Yoon Kok · Reply