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  • Pelajar Contoh Ingin Timba Pengalaman Layari Dunia

    Pelajar Contoh Ingin Timba Pengalaman Layari Dunia

    SEWAKTU kecil Encik Indrasyah Putera Kudsi Dulkifli sering tertanya-tanya bagaimana alat-alat di sekelilingnya berfungsi.

    Apabila ada sebarang alat yang rosak baik kipas, radio mahupun televisyen, beliau akan membukanya dan mengesan masalah yang ada serta cuba membetulkannya.

    Tidak hairanlah pada usia yang muda, beliau berjaya membuat alat yang direkanya sendiri.

    “Saya mendapat ilham membina gegelung tesla ketika menonton filem The Sorcerer’s Apprentice lantas mengaplikasikan apa yang saya pelajari dalam kelas fizik setelah memahami asas-asas bagaimana gegelung tesla berfungsi,” jelas beliau yang mencipta alat tersebut selepas tamat peperiksaan GCE Peringkat ‘O’.

    Gegelung tesla ialah sejenis mesin yang boleh menghasilkan voltan tinggi dan mencipta arka elektrik atau petir.

    Beliau memilih mengejar Diploma Kejuruteraan Marin di Politeknik Singapura (SP) meskipun keputusan GCE ‘O’ beliau melayakkannya ke maktab rendah kerana pentingnya industri kelautan kepada ekonomi negara.

    Ternyata pilihannya tepat selepas Encik Indrasyah, 20 tahun, muncul sebagai salah seorang penerima Anugerah Pelajar Contoh SP. Beliau satu-satunya pelajar Melayu daripada 22 pelajar tahun akhir yang menerima anugerah itu.

    Beliau dipilih berdasarkan pencapaiannya yang menyerlah dengan mendapat Gred Purata Mata (GPA) terkini 3.907. Encik Indrasyah juga dalam kegiatan kokurikular di samping berusaha menyumbang kembali kepada masyarakat.

    Namun, Encik Indrasyah akur terpaksa mengimbangi cabaran menyiapkan projek tahun akhirnya, menganjurkan pertandingan memanjat tembok kebangsaan, Rock Master, dan menjaga datuknya yang mengalami sakit pinggang akibat terjatuh.

    Beliau tidak teragak-agak mengorbankan masa bersama rakan dan bergegas pulang sejurus tamat kelas bagi menjaga datuknya, Encik Kudsi Mohamed Zain, 84 tahun, ketika ayahnya, Encik Dulkifli Kudsi, 58 tahun, dan kakaknya, Cik Istifarah Puteri Kudsi, 24 tahun, sibuk bekerja.

    Datuk dan neneknya, Cik Sahra Abu Bakar, 82 tahun, tinggal bersama mereka.

    Ditanya mengenai rahsia mendapat GPA yang cemerlang, Encik Indrasyah berkata:

    “Saya fokus di dalam kelas, bertanya macam-macam soalan, dengan itu saya faham 90 peratus mengenai sesuatu subjek.”

    Beliau, yang mendapat tawaran dalam program kembar peringkat ijazah sarjana muda dalam pengajian kejuruteraan dan pengurusan perniagaan di universiti tempatan, bercadang menangguh pengajian dan kemasukannya dalam Perkhidmatan Negara.

    Ini kerana Encik Indrasyah ingin merebut peluang menimba pengalaman belayar selama enam bulan yang ditawarkan oleh SP.

     

    Source: www.beritaharian.sg

  • Employment Growth In First 3 Quarters Of 2015 Lowest In 6 Years

    Employment Growth In First 3 Quarters Of 2015 Lowest In 6 Years

    Jobs growth in Singapore remained low in the third quarter of 2015, with unemployment rising slightly for residents and citizens, according to figures released in the Ministry of Manpower’s (MOM) latest Labour Market Report.

    From July to September this year, total employment grew by 12,600, which is higher than the preceding quarter’s growth of 9,700 but significantly lower than the increase of 33,400 from the corresponding period last year.

    According to MOM, the cumulative employment growth for the first three quarters of this year was 16,200, which is the lowest growth since 2009.

    The employment gains were driven by increases in the services sector, with the wholesale and retail trade, real estate services, construction and manufacturing sectors all cutting back on employment.

    Overall unemployment remained low at 2.0 per cent, but rose slightly for the second consecutive quarter to 3.0 per cent for residents and 3.1 per cent for citizens.

    More workers were laid off in the third quarter, with 3,460 losing their jobs. This is higher than the 3,250 laid off in the second quarter of 2015.

    A significant majority, or seven out of ten, residents laid off in the quarter were from the professionals, managers, executives and technicians (PMET) group, according to MOM.

    Even though there were still more vacancies than people looking for work, the ratio has moderated with the number of seasonally-adjusted vacancies declining over the quarter by 11 per cent.

    This has brought down the job openings to job seekers ratio to 116 openings per 100 seekers, which is comparable to the level in Jun 2013.

    An estimated 56,700 residents, comprising 51,100 Singaporeans, were unemployed in Sep 2015, up from 52,700 residents unemployment in Sep 2014, MOM said.

    Responding to the figures, Ms Jaya Dass, country director for HR services provider Randstad Singapore, said that the government’s focus on increasing productivity and transitioning to a more service and quality-based economy is making Singapore less manpower-reliant. “These initiatives, coupled with the slowdown in core sectors like manufacturing and construction, have contributed to slower employment growth,” she said.

    However, she added that initiatives to deepen the skills of Singaporean workers, such as SkillsFuture, will provide better career opportunities in the coming year.

     

    Source: http://business.asiaone.com

  • Indranee Rajah: Building Economy While Maintaning Singaporean Core A Tricky Balancing Act

    Indranee Rajah: Building Economy While Maintaning Singaporean Core A Tricky Balancing Act

    Building a strong economy with the help of foreign labour while keeping a Singaporean core is ‘a tricky balancing act’, said Senior Minister of State for Law and Education Indranee Rajah.

    With low total fertility rates and an ageing population looming in the near future, the city-state may have fewer working individuals to drive the economy and support more seniors, Ms Indranee told some 300 students who attended the annual Polytechnic Forum held at Ngee Ann Polytechnic on Friday afternoon.

    “If you don’t have enough of your own people, then you have to ask people from outside to come in,” she said. “And that is a very tricky balancing act to do, because you must not have so many people coming in from the outside that your own local, Singaporean core is eroded.”

    She also acknowledged there are sectors that Singaporeans are not keen on working, such as construction. “So that is one area where we will still need to have people from abroad to help out with,” she said.

    Ms Indranee said the Government had been tightening up on foreign labour in the last five years, but it had to be a gradual process. She cited the F&B sector, which faces a lack of waiters and waitresses.

    “So for us in the Government, we’ve got to make sure we finely calibrate it,” she said. “But as far as possible, wherever Singaporeans can take up those positions, that’s what we want.”

    The Polytechnic Forum, which started in 1996, is organised annually by the five polytechnics. It provides a platform for students to gain a deeper understanding of national issues through activities, discussions and dialogue with industry and government leaders.

    During the two hour-long dialogue on Friday, students from all five polytechnics raised issues such as university education and National Service. A common concern was on permanent residency and citizenship.

    Ms Indranee noted that foreigners do not automatically qualify to become Singapore permanent residents or citizens. “If we add to the Singaporean pool, (they) must be people who identify with us, share our values and can contribute to Singapore,” she said.

    Urging Singaporeans not to be xenophobic, Ms Indranee added: “We should be willing to allow people to join the Singapore family.”

     

    Source: www.straitstimes.com

  • Discriminatory Job Advertisement Spotted At Valu$ Store

    Discriminatory Job Advertisement Spotted At Valu$ Store

    I like to bring to your attention a discriminatory job advertisement spotted at Valu$ store (Causeway Point) and the company behind the Valu$ and ABC Bargain Centre chain of stores is Radha Exports Pte Ltd.

    The attached pictures show words and phrases in their job advertisements which are against TAFEP’s (Tripartite Alliance for Fair and Progressive Employment Practices) Guidelines on Fair Employment Practices.

    Please highlight this in your website to let all Singaporeans know how this Indian-origin owner’s company employs mostly their own kind as well as Filipinos in their HQ and retail stores.

    For Fair And Progressive Job Advertisemets
    A.S.S. Contributor

    Source: www.allsingaporestuff.com

  • Difficult To Get A Job With General Degree And No Work Experience

    Difficult To Get A Job With General Degree And No Work Experience

    Hi Mr. Tan,

    I came across your blog and would like to share my thoughts and experiences with you.

    I have a diploma in business (merit) from a local polytechnic. After NS, I was rejected by NUS for a place in Business School but was offered sociology instead. Because of my interests in business, I did a minor in management and realised to my shock that 30% of those in business school were foreigners – from Vietnam, China, Malaysia who don’t even understand business terms!

    After a year, I lost interest in my course and just breezed through and scraped by with a basic pass degree. Although I admit this is my fault for not working hard and securing a comfortable government job like a few of my peers, but the whole idea is that the private sector is a completely different ball game although.

    When I graduated, I sent in hundreds of resume but only got two interviews. The reality for fresh graduates is that unless you have a law, accountancy or medicine degree where you have secured a training contract of some sort then you are safe. Civil service aside, the private sector is very unwilling to take on someone with a general degree with no experience.

    In fact, I have been unemployed for 2 years after graduating and helping our my mother in her restaurant. This has made me feel very inferior towards the S-pass holders from third-world countries!

    Eventually, I decided to put my diploma as my highest educational level and secured a part-time job as an admin executive earning $1,200 a month with a local SME working about 20 hours a week.

    I can tell you for a fact that the graduate employment surveys are bullshit! It is done on a voluntarily basis and only those who have secured jobs would have sufficient information to fill such as basic salary and so on. The reality is that the unemployed like myself are too ashamed to fill up the survey.

    Even for those who do, what does 15% of FASS (faculty of arts and social science) graduates who are unemployed SIX months after graduation is no joke, considering the amount they spent on their education. I would personally estimate that around 30% of my peers are unemployed and another 30% are like me underemployed doing jobs like estate and insurance agents which do not even require degrees!

    In my free time, I am also studying for an ACCA to enhance my future prospects after seeing how general degrees have no value in the job market while there are so many foreigners competing with Singaporeans who have served NS.

    I have really really lost faith in our PAP.

     

    Source: http://tankinlian.blogspot.sg