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Shell is definitely one of those companies in Malaysia many people wish they can get a job there. The job in Shell is considered prestigious, and in many ways offer their employees the chance to work in various different areas and at the same time offering path for career growth.

Shell tops the list of Malaysian Best Companies to work in Malaysia in SKOR Career list published in 2006.
Shell loves talents not only those who have working experience, but also those graduating students with high potential to be developed. The formula of hiring is based on 4 principles, namely capacity, achievement, relationship skills and technical skills.

If you’re a fresh graduate, there are 3 ways for you to try your luck getting a job with Shell:

1. Take up internship with Shell
2. Attend Recruitment Day
3. Participate in Shell Gourami Business Challenge

Their choice of entry route depends on what they feel best suits them but all applications, done online, require candidates to fill up questionnaires and submit resumes.

Internships are available throughout the year, and in Malaysia, are open to penultimate and final-year students in all areas of study.

Those who wish to be recruited via Shell Recruitment Day apply online. Successful candidates are then given face-to-face or phone interviews, after which they turn up on the day itself to be assessed by four people, over eight hours.

Assessment methods include a case study, a group discussion and a business scenario interview, with a technical interview for those seeking technical positions.

The Gourami Business Challenge is a hands-on exercise which allows potential candidates to discover what working for Shell will really be like.

Participants from the Asia Pacific region have to come up with a five-year business plan for Shell operations on a fictional island called Gourami.
Source: The Star

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INTI college has teamed up with Malaysia’s premier recruitment agencies Jobstreet and Jobmarket with aim to provide a quality education with a focus on career development. With the collaboration INTI is hoping to produce more and more graduates having the right skills needed by the job market in Malaysia.

The need of shaping early career has become inevitable due to higher competition in the job market with tens of thousands  graduates produced each year to enter the employment industry. With the stiff competition, it is important for students and graduates-to-be to engage themselves with the right parties and organizations to help them landing their job fast.

The collaboration also allows closer interactions between the graduates and potential employers. INTI will have their website integrated with Jobstreet’s career page where the students will be able to log in and surf for job vacancies available in the website. Similarly, Jobstreet also will be able to identify talents and help them finding their dream career of choice.

The collaboration with JobMarket, a subsidiary of BASIS Group of Companies, will boost the internship programmes for ICSJ students. JobMarket will help students to pursue their internships in various corporations and businesses, thus allowing students an opportunity to gain working experience before graduation.

JobMarket will also organise talks on internship guidance.

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The government has again urged Malaysians to look into biotechnology sector as a new field to venture. This is because it will incur less cost than operating a manufacturing plant. Deputy Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Datuk Kong Cho Ha said the Malaysia government is encouraging any party to set up and run biotechnological plants in the country.

The manufacturing sector is also currently facing stiff competition from other nations in the region, including the boom of China and India market. The cost of land, labor and operation cost has also been increasing year by year.

He also said that Malaysia has a lot more room to improve in terms of biological advancement and the government is also offering vast marketing opportunities.

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Malaysia Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Badawi has assured Malaysians that SME loans will be given to small and medium sized industry business owners regardless of their races.

He told the press that the SME banks are not only  government-linked institutions but also commercial and financial institutions.

What it means is that any entrepreneurs wishing to get some capital from the banks will be able to do so provided the meet all the required guidelines.

Some parties have been asking questions of whether the loans by SME banks are biased towards bumiputras only.

An expected total loan of more than 3 billion ringgits are being committed to make the SME development program a success.

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Majlis Amanah Rakyat, MARA is set to train more entrepreneurs in various fields to create Malaysian entrepreneurs success stories. Aspiring entrepreneurs will be trained in different careers and sectors including cloth making, cosmetics, automotive, reflexology and others.

This is part of Malaysia’s government effort to produce more than 10,000 entrepreneurs for the 9th Malaysia Plan project. There will be a total of 28 courses available to choose by participants.

In view of this, MARA has already signed memorandum of understanding with a few major companies including Naza Bike Sdn Bhd, Samata Industries and Prima Export Food Complex. These companies have agreed to provide on-job training for youths and those aspiring to be entrepreneurs.

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If you’re thinking of expanding your knowledge, read! Yes, reading enhances your knowledge and feed you with unlimited information and news.

By reading motivational materials you will get your feet standing back on two feet when you’re down and demotivated. By reading the newspapers you get yourself acquainted with the latest happenings within Malaysia and around the world. By reading magazines, you trade your waiting moment for your next flight to Langkawi with a precious knowledge sharpening session. It goes on and on.
Yes, just read anything. Books, ebooks, novels, newspapers, magazines and so on. This leads to question: how much you should read?

Well, according to research in the US, the highest paid Americans read an average of two to three hours per day.

How do we fare? Sadly enough, the reading habit of Malaysians is very low. On average 1 person only read one book per year! Isn’t that shocking. More than 70% of adults do not go into bookstores and libraries.

It seems we rather watch movie than reading.

Have you read any book today?

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Finally, Malaysia Airlines decided to offer major discounted price for the passengers travelling domestically within Malaysia. As many as 250,000 discounted tickets will be up for grab, which price will be as cheap as RM9 for a one way journey.

The fares to 23 destinations range from RM9 to RM199 and are available from today until Feb 6.Â

The offers are also to promote higher volume of tourist movement within Malaysia in conjunction with the Visit Malaysia year 2007.

Even though the overall Mas discounting policy is much way below of those offered by its counterpart Air Asia, but this is a good sign for healthy competition to come. Air Asia has gone a long way by offering 1 million free tickets for 2007 season, and is even planning to send flight between Malaysia to Europe at a staggering price of RM9!
To book you ticket, MAS official website at www.malaysiaairlines.com

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Yesterday News Straits Times Malaysia reported that a woman from Terengganu took home roughly RM100,000 of income in 2006 by selling cosmetics products to villagers and other people.

Zainun Tahir, a full time housewife, spent more than 12 hours per day promoting Avon’s products including lipstics, compacts, brooches, lingerie, shampoo and many others. As a result, she won the 2nd top distributor prize of all Avon distributors in Malaysia.

She would go around the village convincing people to buy Avon products, and she managed to get around 30 people buying her products every day.

Well, 12 hours a day sounds like a very taxing job, but don’t you think the final rewards are very much worth it? After all, RM100,000 means a gross monthly income of RM8,000 per months, higher than most of the mid level managers in corporate organizations in Malaysia.

If a housewife can do it, why not us?

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A plan to double the periods for English lessons will be tried out in schools in a bid to boost the pupils’ proficiency in the language.

A pilot project to give Year One students 18 English lessons a week instead of the present eight would begin soon in 50 schools, said Education Ministry director-general Datuk Dr Ahamad Sipon.

The year-long project, called “ELiTE or Early Literacy Through English programme”, will see the Mathematics and Science lessons, of which there are seven and three periods a week respectively, effectively turned into English lessons.

The Mathematics and Science teachers will continue teaching their pupils but their focus will be to get the seven-year-olds more comfortable with the English language.

“We have selected schools with poor results in the English language, especially those in the rural areas. We want to give them a strong foundation so that the pupils can grasp the subjects better in the following years. This means giving them greater exposure to English from the start,” Ahamad said.

Full story from News Straits Times.

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Yahoo Inc posted on Tuesday a 61% drop in quarterly profit, weighed down by option expenses.

Weighed down in part by US$56mil in stock option expenses, Yahoo’s fourth-quarter net income fell to US$269mil compared with the year earlier quarter’s US$683mil. – Reuters

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