What Company Looking For?

1. This survey is regarding the fresh graduate are still unemployed due to certain circumstances.

Section A: Personal Details

1.      Name: Ahmad Hishamuddin Mohammed Salleh        

2.      Position: Head, Analytics, Customer Relationship Management

3.      Company: Maybank

Section B: Criteria

1.      What is actually company want or company aspect from the university graduates?

Bright talents that have passion on the things that they are doing and highly motivational personalities and able to be multi-tasking.

2.      What is the more important when company looking at the university graduates; CGPA or soft skills?

CGPA is a must since that reflects on the effort required to achieved that but additional of soft skill will a competitive edge as well.

3.      What type of employees is company looking for nowadays?

Same as 1.

4.      What makes company reject university graduates application?
Not fit to the job applied and also not be able to reflect self against the CV submitted.

5.      Does the company provide the problem solving question to candidate for examples case study?

In some occasion of employment, yes.

6.      Does the university graduates is qualified enough nowadays?

Depending on what are criteria required for a specific position. Very subjective

7.      Besides all the questions above, would you like to give some tips or share knowledge to university graduates?

Work hard to achieve high score which reflect how much effort did you put into, know your stuff meant not only know to score but also know what are you doing to achieve the high score, able to express yourself (strength and weaknesses) and also shown bold determination on what are you looking for in your career path.

2. Interviewed session with human resources manager of IIUM Entrepreneurship & Consultancies Sdn Bhd, Miss Noor Sara Binti Nazli.

Q: Based on your experienced as human resources manager, when you want to recruit an employee, what do you think about employee skills do employers (in this context is your company) want most?

A:  Naturally all employees need specific skills to succeed in the workplace. Same goes to an employer that always seeks an employee that have a lot of skills. There are several criteria that employer want most but the most desired employee skills which is means the skills that apply to most positions in all industries are multi tasking skills (flexibility and adaptability), good communication skills, interpersonal skills like have personal traits of honesty, reliability and cooperate well with co-workers, computer skills, leadership skills and etc.  For our company, the most skills that we want for the new employee is creativity and problem solving skills, analytical and research skills, leadership skills, collaborative skills and planning skills. It is because our company is a research company and these criteria will match and help the employee to achieve our goals, mission and vision.

Q: What do you think about potential of KENMS,IIUM student in their future careers?

A: I can see a big future for KENMS, IIUM student in their future careers because what they have learn, their subject and topic are very comprehensive that cover all aspect of life. The bachelor programs that offered are meeting the job market. But all of that is not enough if they do not know how to develop their skills. So, try to develop and find out your ‘secret’ skills to tackle your future employer.