This article refer to a letter from Janine, Penang published on The Star dated 29 May 2005.
She stated that:
Many of my Chinese-educated course mates who applied for employment at an on-campus career fair received between two and three job offers even before the start of our final examinations. The offers were from companies like Agilent, Motorola and Intel. As a matter of fact, one of my course mates was offered a job at all three companies. Friends who graduated with a degree in Physics were offered starting salaries between RM2,000 and RM3,000.
This is a known secret among employer. Under quota system, non-bumi must excel in academic in order to gain admitting to local public university. Those who able to gain enter into local public university are top student among non-bumi. They are very in demand by employer, including Multinational Company stated above. Tony Pua is correct on advising best student to joint UM.
Those non-bumi who study in private institution are consider average and below average student. Like the other letter.
Whereas top bumi student were sent to government residential school ( sekolah berasrama penuh) during their secondary and would sent to overseas university after that. Those bumi student admitted to local public university are consider average or below average student. Thus, for employer, they would prefer to hire an overseas bumi graduate than a bumi graduated from a local public university. Like our new CEO of Khazanah Holding Bhd. He was employed by a MNC before.
If government is not serious about meritocracy. The problem would persist as employer might view them as a Diploma holder rather than a Degree holder.
If graduates has good attitude like Janine of not complaining a low starting salary. I think they might able to secure a job even they are an average student.
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