PJKru
07-04-2005, 03:01 PM
5,000 vacancies to be offered for graduates at fairs
BY SHAHANAAZ HABIB
KUALA LUMPUR: Job fairs will be held in all states to draw unemployed graduates into sectors that they shy away from.
Announcing this yesterday, Human Resources Minister Datuk Dr Fong Chan Onn said graduates tended to keep away from ?3-D? jobs ? those deemed ?dangerous, dirty and demeaning.?
These included farming, direct sales, or working as factory supervisors or tourist guides.
The Government's programme,spread over a period of three months, will kick off in Terengganu next week.
At least 5,000 vacancies will be exhibited at each of the fairs, to be held at shopping centres and malls.
Dr Fong said that some graduates ?think it is demeaning to walk about and go from house to house on direct sales.?
?But it is better to have a job than to be without one,? he told reporters at the Parliament lobby after chairing his post-Cabinet meeting.
Dr Fong pointed out that Malaysia needed two million foreign workers and yet there were all these local graduates who were unemployed.
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2005/4/7/nation/20050407070105&sec=nation
BY SHAHANAAZ HABIB
KUALA LUMPUR: Job fairs will be held in all states to draw unemployed graduates into sectors that they shy away from.
Announcing this yesterday, Human Resources Minister Datuk Dr Fong Chan Onn said graduates tended to keep away from ?3-D? jobs ? those deemed ?dangerous, dirty and demeaning.?
These included farming, direct sales, or working as factory supervisors or tourist guides.
The Government's programme,spread over a period of three months, will kick off in Terengganu next week.
At least 5,000 vacancies will be exhibited at each of the fairs, to be held at shopping centres and malls.
Dr Fong said that some graduates ?think it is demeaning to walk about and go from house to house on direct sales.?
?But it is better to have a job than to be without one,? he told reporters at the Parliament lobby after chairing his post-Cabinet meeting.
Dr Fong pointed out that Malaysia needed two million foreign workers and yet there were all these local graduates who were unemployed.
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2005/4/7/nation/20050407070105&sec=nation