Jobs@Lowyat.net – a new job portal in town

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Have no luck in finding jobs with the established job portals? Try Jobs@Lowyat, the new kids on the block. Lowyat.net needs no introduction to Malaysians. In the past few years, the portal which is very popular with its forum has grown tremendously. It has sub sites such as Multiplay (for gamers) and Wheels under its roof.

Jobs@Lowyat, the new addition to Lowyat.net, is still in beta, with 39 jobs posted at present, where most of them in IT related industry.

If you’re used with other job portals such as Jobstreet.com, you’ll notice how ‘lite’ this portal is. On the job listing, jobs are categorized by its industry type, and is viewable via separate tabs for ease of navigating. Each job shows how many applicants has applied for the job.

Job seeker -No registration required, thus each job applications require you to fill in a simple form and upload your resume.

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Employer – No registration required as well. Anyone can post jobs here by filling a simple form and upload the job details.

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There is also widgets to display jobs available on any web pages, but somehow it’s not working here.

With current economic crisis sprawling all over the world, job portals are among the most sought after websites on the net. If you’re one of the unlucky in this crisis, don’t let it bring you down with nonsense act like this.

Those whom are still unemployed, keep your effort up. Pay day is not the only source of income. Look around you and you’ll be suprised with other unnoticed opportunities.

Checking your Jobstreet Job matches on the fly

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This tip is only applicable for Jobstreet account holders. This is not a hack, it’s just utilizing what is already there.

First of all, you need to know what RSS, RSS reader is. Jobstreet is kind enough putting this piece of info on their website as well as the RSS reader available out there.

The final step is to add this RSS URL below to your RSS reader. Don’t forget to replace <your jostreet login iD> with your Jobstreet ID. That’s all. You can check the job match immediately.

http://myjobstreet.jobstreet.com/lina/rss.asp?login_id=<your jobstreet login iD>

Apart from being faster, no signing into Jobstreet.com is needed, you can identify which matched job you has already read, based on the default RSS reader marking feature.


need Oracle DBA

I’m quite busy today. Working 9-5 is never quiet from busy day. This is short post aka advertisement. If you’re Malaysian and experinced Oracle DBA, there are vacant post in a company where my friend working with. Basically this is the one of the biggest IT company in the world and has operation in KL. If you’re interested, please send email to me (do not send the resume, just inform me that you’re interested) at zakifahmi [at] gmail.com. I’ll forward your email to him later on.

From what he inform me, this company is shifting some of it operation from India to Malaysia and looking for quite a numbers of local DBA to manage their DB.