KKDK Session: JOBS. FUTURE. YOU
Information of Program: To provide the ways to power up students during a job interview and explain the importance of having the skills certificate for future employment among students.
Date: 16 April 2022
Venue: Facebook
Organizer: Kelab Kaunseling Dan Kerjaya UTM
Position: Participant
1) Mini Report:
The organizer of this webinar is Kelab Kaunseling Dan Kerjaya UTM. This informative webinar is an educational and career talk on enhancing the opportunity for graduates to get future jobs. The objectives of this webinar are to reveal to the students the importance of having a skill certificate after graduation and describe the useful techniques to increase performance during an interview. The speaker has indicated the reasons and importance of having certification among students such as certification can differentiate a person from others in the occupation field, grow someone’s knowledge and skills level and improve one’s confidence and reputation to become a professional in a certain industry. One of the primary considerations among students is certification results in high income being discussed and according to the information shared by the speaker, it shows that the certification makes a higher salary compared to those who are not certified and the possibility to be recruited by employers is high especially to particular industry fields including Information Technology and Services, Accounting, Engineering, Computer Software and Designing. In addition, the recommended way delivered by the speaker to students in UTM to start with certification is through participating in the courses offered in UTM Professional Skill Certificate Courses which are free to enhance self-knowledge and ability in a certain field. For enhancing the students' interview performance, there are some important details are displayed such as the ordinary requirements of the interviewer, types of the job interview, types of job interview questions and useful strategies for the time before, during and after an interview. By Joining this program, it is indicating that one of the Graduate Attributes is related, which is Communication Skills as the beneficial skills shared for job interviewing can increase the delivery of ideas and opinions to the interviewer.
2) Self Reflection:
By attending this webinar, it brings a good understanding to be related to the importance and value of certification in jobs occupied after graduation. Certification for me, who is a Real Estate student is really significant for getting a job with a better income in this professional industry. Also, I have instilled the useful techniques when attending my future job interview which helps me to develop better performance and be well-mannered and able to carry a fluent communication with the interviewer. This makes me gain knowledge about communication skills, which is an important skill from Graduate Attributes. However, when facing a real interview in the future, I might not be able to carry out myself with the application of such good techniques that gained from the webinar because I am a person who is easy to be nervous when facing many unknown people and not very confident in giving an opinion, due to afraid of getting mistakes. To improve my weaknesses, I will start with often communicating and changing the ideas related to the academic work such as group assignments with team members to train myself to be brave in expressing my own opinions. I will also be trying to learn some tips to aid me in easing my tense mood and anxiety during the presentation in class in order to improve my bravery at the time confronting many numbers of people, attending a job interview in the future and any other big or important occasion.