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KUALA LUMPUR: At least one in three Malaysian students is pursuing a degree that doesn’t suit his personality or character traits, according to an international recruitment agency.

ManpowerGroup’s country manager for Malaysia, Sam Haggag, said one of the factors contributing to this phenomenon was pressure from parents.

“This is happening not only in Malaysia,” he said. “It’s a global issue. When I was growing up, my parents wanted me to be a doctor or an engineer because that was their perception of what a professional was.

“These young people are the same. They face pressure from parents who drive them towards certain professions that align with the family’s expectations.”

He told FMT he had encountered law graduates whose attention to detail was low but who were highly creative, a trait he would not associate with lawyers.

Haggag said the mismatch between character traits and paper qualifications was one of the main reasons that Malaysia had a high number of unemployed graduates.

At the same time, he said, some employers were unwilling to invest in these young graduates because they preferred ready-made talent at the lowest possible cost.

“Together, you have a recipe for disaster. And the poor person in the middle is the graduate who gets lambasted by everybody.”

According to the Malaysian Employers Federation, there were 200,000 unemployed graduates in the country in 2016. This number does not include those who have just completed their Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia or diploma and certificate programmes.

Some industry experts have blamed graduates’ “attitude problems” for their inability to secure employment, but Haggag said this was unfair.

“Are there graduates with an attitude problem? Yes. But there are experienced people with an attitude too.

“We have to ask ourselves: before these students went to the university, what type of career counselling did they get?

“How much preparation did they have in the academia to set them for the outside world? Academia is just that – it’s to prepare students for academic excellence. But they are poorly equipped with a perspective of the outside world, which is changing constantly.”

Unless something is done to help these graduates, he warned, Malaysia might continue to face a problem with unemployment, or fresh graduates might end up taking up to 18 months to find employment.

“Or their tenure may be short. This is because they simply have not been prepared for the harsh realities of the working environment.

“The more you align somebody’s job with the things he likes to do, the more likely you are to have success.”

batmana

btul la tu..
de membe yg jadi tk betul masa nk exam,
ckp sorg2 cm org gila
trpkse anta rawat.

mak pak, jgnla pakse anak tu blaja apa yg dia tk suke
lainla klu mak pak ikut skali msuk kelas..

zawara

Mak pak suka paksa2 anak

duri_durians

i masuk course IT sebab i pun taktau apa i nak belajar. sekarang dah 5 tahun kerja dalam IT tapi still tak minat IT.

annehuda

aku kenal family mcm ni. nak anak amek aliran sains ms matriks, terus depression anak tu. pastu budak tu masuk maktab jadi cikgu, eh terlebih confident plak. hahaha

mieymiey

Macam adik i, tak minat jadi cikgu tapi dipaksa. Sekarang, aman-aman jah dia belajar kat maktab perguruan. Alhamdulillah minat tu datang juga ke dia.

fynnkakiblock

duri_durians replied at 27-2-2017 11:04 AM
i masuk course IT sebab i pun taktau apa i nak belajar. sekarang dah 5 tahun kerja dalam IT tapi sti ...

kesiannya chuols

fynnkakiblock

zawara replied at 27-2-2017 10:51 AM
Mak pak suka paksa2 anak

chuols dah ade anak ke

zawara

fynnkakiblock replied at 27-2-2017 11:30 AM
chuols dah ade anak ke

Takda huhu

fynnkakiblock

zawara replied at 27-2-2017 11:50 AM
Takda huhu

nanti chuols dah ade anak jgn jadik mcmni. selalunya masa tak ade anak mmg ckp kenapa parents suke paksa2 anak.. nanti dah ade anak 360 berubah ramai cmtu chuols

zawara

fynnkakiblock replied at 27-2-2017 11:52 AM
nanti chuols dah ade anak jgn jadik mcmni. selalunya masa tak ade anak mmg ckp kenapa parents suke ...

Tula kan..tah2 lagi teruk iols paksa anak2 nanti  

fynnkakiblock

zawara replied at 27-2-2017 11:55 AM
Tula kan..tah2 lagi teruk iols paksa anak2 nanti

jgn ketulahan chuols

aldilla_zahraa

Then again some budak2 ni bila tanya "kau nak jadi apa?" Pun diorang takleh jawab. Contohnya adik aku la.

Maka kena la aku sit down dok explain kursus2 yg dia boleh ambik tp still dia blur2 tak tahu minat dia apa.

Last2 aku menggunakan kuasa veto pilih utk dia sbb dia sengal sgt buat tak tahu je deadline dh dekat. Aku applykan kursus accountancy utk dia. Alhamdulillah skrg dah masuk 1st yr degree, nampaknya dia minat dan bersungguh2 belajar

krustykrab

kdg mak pak tak reti pun, tak paksa pun, tapi sbb nak ikut abang, kakak main belasah je ambik...sudahnya diploma ka degree ke semua tak habis...last2 duk terkangkang depan tv kat rumah je

kdg kita ni nak sgt masuk uni, padahal result so-so je....baik la pi beljar repair moto ke kete ke, pastu mana tau ada duit ke boleh buka bengkel....

drivethru

Ade jugak terpaksa tukar bidang pengajian sbb pointer tinggi semasa matrik.

joeyss

anak aku tiap hari tukar cita-cita hahahahaha... nasib baik baru sekolah rendah

tapi ada sesetengah pelajar yang aku perhatikan, ada cita-cita tapi tak minat subjek yang menghala ke cita-cita tersebut. macam mana tu?

OmJualGas

om minat bidang oil n gas.  kira tercapai juga,  la ni jadi penjual gas....

Modngengade

Kakak dulu minat fashion design tapi abg2 suruh ambik engineering sebab result spm akak gempaq...diorang ckp course fashion design ni untuk budak2 x cerdik....alhamdulillah dah nk dekat pencen dah akak masih maintain sbg engineer...minat tu boleh dtg kemudian...

Namun kakak setuju...parents x boleh la paksa ank ...biar diorang pilih career mereka

TuntungReturn

tpi ade mak pak paksa anak masok u, walaupun coz yg nth pape. janji anak masok u.

serinegara

Kita masa muda usually kita tatau pun kita betul betul minat apa, melainkan kita suka buat benda tu dari kecil, contohnya dari kecil umur 5 tahun kita suka amik sarung bantal pas tu jahit baju, amik seluar sendiri pas tu alter etc. Jadi nampak lah kecenderungan nak jadi seamstress atau designer.

Jadi utk remaja yang masih samar samar tentang apa yang mereka nak buat sebagai career, terpaksa lah try and error. Kalau kena buat engineering, buat je lah. Pada masa yang sama aktif lah dalam kokurikum macam kelab drama ke, debat ke, mendayung ke. In order for us to know who we really are and what we want to do as a career, kena lah explore doing many things. Chef Wan pun bermula sebagai accountant sebelum jadi chef. Tak rugi pun ilmu yang kita pernah belajar. Kadang kadang, jurusan yang kononnya bukan minat kita ni lah yang boleh jadi batu loncatan untuk kita pursue apa yang kita minat.