Why Join MNC?

I want to share my feeling on this topic. It has been 8 months that I've worked with MNC after my graduation. Initially, I felt very proud with myself that I was able to secure the job opportunity from MNC but this feeling was fading by days. Upon receiving the offer letter, I have the mixed feeling because I was sent to Kuantan (which is far from my hometown) but I convinced myself that I need to gain the working experience before I could make the next move. Being the fresh graduate, we can't be very choosy about the jobs. Hence, I took the challenges and travelled to Kuantan last October. For the first few months, I just sat in the classroom for training program and we were exposed to various subjects regarding the company.

Finally, the classroom training program came to the end in February this year and we were segregated to different departments in the company. Three of us were sent to the same department and we were briefed by the manager about the job scope and expectations. After spending 4 months in the department, I didnt feel that I was given the same workloads and job explosure than the rest and I felt that I can't learn much to equip myself with necessary technical knowledge. I spent most of my time reading materials in the office and I don't get the chance to be involved in the engineering project whilst the rest did. 

Today my boss asked whether I was busy or not and I replied no. He was shocked when I replied him in this way and he said that I should get myself busy with works because I received high pay from the company. But how am I going to be busy when the boss is not delegating the jobs well between us. At this moment, I can't do anything but I have to be patient and persevere.

Top 5 in 2012 - P&G Business Challenge 2012

P&G Business Challenge!! An event that the final year student should participate in before he/she graduates from university because it has too much to offer.....Actually, it was my second attempt to join this event and I managed to nail it. 

The reason why I want to join this event is because it has the similar concept to the popular tv show 'The Apprentice' that made famous by the billionaire, Donald Trump in 2004. During the event, we were divided into 4 groups and we were required to brainstorm on the marketing strategy to be used for selling the particular product. In the end, the group who gained the highest profit would win the challenge. 

Top 5 in 2012 - S-SPEC Winner

Happy New Year and I hope it's not too late to wish everyone here. I would like to take this opportunity to do some recaps on what I've achieved in the year of 2012. I'm proud to announce that I'm the grand prize winner of Shell Inter-Varsity Student Paper Presentation Contest (S-SPEC 2012) under undergraduates category. It was my second attempt to win this coveted prize and I had additional RM2,000 in my pocket after the event. In year 2011, I did participate in this competition but I went home with empty handed and this spurred me on joining this event again before I'm officially graduated from Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM).

The highlight of the event was my money got stolen at the night before the event started.

For more information, please log on http://www.utm.my/sspec2013/. Please the opportunity to participate this amazing event and I believe that you won't regret later.

Call Me Maybe ?!

Last week, I went for medical checkup and I also receive offer letter from P's hr. I will attend the training in Bangi on 1/10/12 and this training will last for two weeks. Coincidentally, my convo is held on 13/10/12 (Saturday, morning session) and so I have a day break for myself . The training is pretty intensive because it will be carried out in the weekends and public holiday (if there is) as well. This Thursday, I missed out an important call because I was still sleeping!! I hope that I will receive this call again because this call is important for my future endeavors. I plea to you that you will call me again.

HPM Again?

HPM Again? HPM refers to Hari Pengguna Malaysia and I never failed to participate in the essay writing competition since I noticed it's presence in 2010. I won myself a consolation prize again this year and I also won it in 2010 and 2011 respectively. The good thing is I can have another RM200 in my pocket and the sad thing is I have no fate to win the top prize in HPM.

Winning list for Category-E 2012

 Winning list for Category-E 2011

Random Thought

It has been months since I updated my blog. Yeah....finally I finish my studies at UPM and currently I am looking for a good job. I attended some interviews for the past few months and some offered me the jobs and some didn't work out. I attended P's interview last month and after two weeks, I didn't receive any response from HR. I decided to call him and luckily he picked up my phone. I asked him whether I passed the interview or not and he said I passed the interview and I need to send him the final transcript and letter from university before he can issue me the offer letter. Everything was done orally and I don't feel secure because normally I will do things in black and white so that we can keep track on it, in case anything goes wrong. 

If everything goes well, I shall start working in September and I will be based in Kuantan, Pahang. Hopefully the HR guy didn't break his promise and he will issue me the offer letter as soon as possible. Actually, I am hesitate to travel far to Kuantan to start my work because I always wish that my workplace will be somewhere near KL so that I can go back hometown easily during the weekends.

I was happy to receive a call from EM last month and I knew that the phone conversation lasted very short only, probably about 5 minutes. Since then, I'm keep waiting for their call and email everyday because I hope that I will be invited for the face-to-face interview with EM. If I manage to secure it, I will be based in KL and I like it. It has been weeks and they still have not call me for another interview. I felt demotivated and hopefully, they are still screening the potential candidates for an interview, instead of dumping me without any notice because I still have a faith that they will call me one day for an interview. In the earlier phone conversation, I don't feel like they are going to reject my application because they ended the conversation by checking on whether my emailing address was correct or not. This hint is quite obvious to me that they want to contact me again or probably they will not call me again because I think too much.

Anyway, I really hope that I am able to secure a job upon graduation. Seeing other course mates starting their career lives could add more pressure on myself but I still believe that finding a right job is always important so that your career goals can be achieved in the near future. Right now, I still writing a journal for my final year project and I feel lazy to do it. Hopefully more good news will come after this.

Awaiting Hong Kong Trip 2012

Yeah, finally its arrived. Less than 24 hours, I will be boarding and traveling to Hong Kong. It is my first oversea trip this year (2012) and I am really excited to be a part of this trip. There are 7 of us will be heading to Hong Kong tomorrow and we are taking the morning flight (6.00 a.m). Thanks to AirAsia for promotion previously that finally we can fulfill our dreams to fly to Hong Kong. I watched TVB dramas since I was young and I really wish to visit Hong Kong once in my life time. Finally, it comes true and much preparations have been made to make this trip a success one. Arguments and agreements among us cannot be avoided and I hope it doesn't turn out to be hatred later. Hopefully not!

Coming back from Hong Kong later, I need to focus on my final year project and my final sem starts very soon. Really thankful to God for the good results in the sem 7 examination. Job hunting will be carried out soon and more updates will be posted later. Stay tune!