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Skali plan to hire 1000 employees in 2009

skali Skali plan to hire 1000 employees in 2009

Behind the gloomy economy that has made thousand of employees unemployed, there are still shine of hope especially for IT and unemployed graduate in Malaysia. Just make sure that you keep yourself up to date with latest news and skills.

Great news today is that Skali, a local IT company specialize on e-business which currently undertaking government website upgrade and maintenance under Managed Portal Service (MPS) project plan to hire 1000 more employees this year. These jobs will be allocated for the upcoming phase 2 of this project slated this year.

Skali also provide training to unemployed graduate via program such as SPIKE, and some of the graduate student will eventually joined the company as employee.

Not much info provided when the hiring process begin, or how to apply for the available position. Be sure to check online job portal more often after this.

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Admin 12 February 2009 Jobs & Career , , , , , , 3 Comments

Facebook want you if you can solve their puzzle.

facebook Facebook want you if you can solve their puzzle.

Tech company as big and as complicated as Facebook is not a surprise candidate to be among the companies admired by computer science & IT students grads or even the experienced worker.

Apart from its ‘glamor’ image, the compensation package for engineering related post it very attractive where 70k is very common. Top notch fresh grad from prestigious universities such as Standford or MIT are said to be paid up to 95K per year.This is a whole lot of money right, although in average, Facebook employees earn only 41K.

You know what this means? Facebook’s engineers can easily broke into the Forbes’s top 10 paying job in the US after working for few years!!

With much stake to offer, the entry path definitely not an easy one. Beside the normal hiring process, one way to be there is through the programming puzzle, The writer himself(who w solve 2 puzzles to get on board.

For fact, Facebook receive nearly 1,000 submissions a month. Out of that number, only 10% of submissions are fully correct, but only the best of the best get their chance for interviewed. In average, about 5% to 10% of Facebook new engineers are hired because of their puzzle submissions.

A golden opportunity that rarely to come, especially to highly skillful techies, whom without any formal certification or degrees. But the fact above reminds that the puzzle is not an easy task, and keep in mind Windows specific solution is not accepted. So forget about .net.

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Admin 21 December 2008 Jobs & Career , , , , , , 1 Comment

Rafe’s anti layoff spreadsheet - IT jobs for unemployed

A while back, CNET’s Rafe have compiled a ‘Tech layoffs: The scorecard‘  which list down the IT companies and number of employees getting laid off in IT industry.

Now, he is doing something better with the ‘anti-layoff spreadsheet‘. It list down jobs available/companies hiring that gathered from the word spreads through his Twitter (Twitter rock!).

Good luck in your finding for job, and kudos to Rafe

Admin 14 December 2008 Jobs & Career , , No Comments

Linkedin at a glance

linkedin logo Linkedin at a glance

Wanted to tell you all, that I’m now in Linkedin. What? Link Ink? Ling In? Another Facebook or MySpace wannabe my friend said..

No, it is not Facebook-like, where you spend your ‘free’ times with games and applications, or loads and tonnes of photos and waiting someone to leave comments. It’s still a social networking website… but in a way it is more professional. Or they call it professional networking. Wiki can help you understand more.

Why Linkedin?

In Linkedin, you create profile aka resume (personal particulars, educations, working experiences and etc). And start networking (like searching friends in Facebook) with others, get recommendations from your peers/colleagues, business partners and etc. Sounds familiar right..

Recommendation works like complements, where you get someone who has worked with you before to testify on your past performance, normally good one la

Just Like Facebook, there are groups that you can join in. Most of the groups are based on company or alumni.

But the cream of Linkedin is on their Job section. Apart from socializing and building networks, you have the opportunity to leverage your career at the same time. And that’s why you need ‘recommendations’, which build your credibility in the eyes on your peers or even job hunters. The more recommendations the better, as well as who’s the person providing the recommendation.

**Quick search for SAP returns 2 jobs in Cyberjaya

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Not looking for jobs?

For your own good, every opportunities to create visibility on the net or offline, is a ‘necessity’. But, what is visibility?

Taken from dictionary.com, visibility is

degree of exposure to public notice

or the state of being visible

being constantly or frequently in the public view; conspicuous: a visible political position

In plain words, it is how people around you see you, know & recognize what you’re doing. To be visible professionally, you’ll need to have the right place. After all, Linkedin is where professional networking is, and it indeed suits this need.

Here, instead of you’re the one exploring for new opportunities, occasionally, it is good to ‘test the market’ via medium like Linkedin. Let ‘them’ find you.

Linkedin may not be as popular as it is in the US (It is ranked outside of top 100 website in Malaysia), and the jobs available for local market is quite limited. Perhaps it is time to give it a try. Who knows if it can change your life??

I actually wanted to blog about this, but decided to blog it in a different way. My profile. Feel free to connect with me.

Admin 27 November 2008 socialize & media , , 1 Comment

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.

Admin 24 November 2008 Jobs & Career , , , 3 Comments
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