Aflexi

The career fair was crowded but the quality of the crowd was left to be desired, we think that it was waste of time and resources. We have noticed that Malaysia has produced abundant of IT graduates but hardly anyone that can produce anything at all.

A lot of the graduates do not even know how to write a good resume; they did not put any effort into researching writing an effective resume that can impress their future employees.

For example:
Many were simply spamming the programming languages that they learnt in the college for merely a semester and proclaimed that they were good at it. On top of that, my guts is telling me that they were googling ‘what are the good attributes as a employee’ and simply copy and paste the myriad of attributes that they found. Instead of spamming the languages that you have learnt, it might be a better way to write the best language that you are well versed with and the experience with it how did you use the programming language, frameworks, design pattern, etc. Choose few particular attributes that really tell us about you and give example of an instance where it shows your strength.
Another thing would be the Malaysian education system that thinks that teaching everything would empower the students to land a job with ease. I’ve seen tons of resumes saying that they know C++, C#, VB, Java, PHP, .NET and etc, but they knew nothing when we asked them some simple questions. An effective education program should focus in particular subjects; prepare the students to be strong in specific field so that they are somewhat productive for the employer.
We would not expect a freshie to be productive, but at least showing self-learning motivation and proactive. Tons of resumes that ended with us are now being used as scrap paper.