The 18th Malaysian Career and Training Fair

Recently, on the 8th, 9th and 10th of January 2016, the 18th Malaysian Career and Training Fair, co-organised by Jobstreet.com, was held at Mid Valley Exhibition Centre from Friday until Sunday. I went to the fair for 2 days only which were on Friday and Saturday. Personally, I have to say the fair was exciting, full of vigour, and most importantly crowded with people from all walks of life to search for that one job that can either feed them or more than that, their dream job. Interns, fresh graduates, as well as veterans flock the booths available to send out their resumes to be interviewed and get the job.

A lot of companies were available during the fair but I can't help but notice some of the big industry players were not around namely Shell, PETRONAS, Schlumberger, Intel, and many more. But nonetheless, what this fair has to offer was not short as well. Reputable companies both local and overseas were there in search of competent talents to be absorbed into their workforce. Despite being available for only two days at the fair, I have to say, I wasn't even able to finish visiting all the booths at the fair. But having said that, being able to visit a fair number of booths, I was pretty much content although unable to drop not even one single resume was such a waste of time, yet, it really taught me a lot.

The next time I'll be attending a career fair would be to be well prepared with tens or hundreds of resumes at hand to land me that internship that I will be content with. As one of the speakers at the fair said, "You need to be READY before you can get a job." What the speaker meant by 'READY' here is that it is an acronym. It stands for Resume, Energy and Excited, Appearance, Develop soft skills, and Yes!(which I deduce as confident, capable, and grateful). He even went on to stress on how important it is to come to this fair with at least more than 30 copies of your resumes, which no one even went on to admitting they (the visitors) had more than 30 at that time!

The interesting bit about this fair, as I had mentioned earlier, was that not only there were booths for eager jobseekers to drop their resumes but there were also talks and a dedicated resume clinic booth so that jobseekers could get feedbacks regarding their resumes that they have written. But despite all that, If you have been to a career fair before such as Technology Education and Career (TEC) in UTP or any other fair, you will find it quite familiar.

I really look forward to another similar career fair within Malaysia and by then, I will be prepared to drop off my resumes to get the best internship on offer.