Date: 22 October 2020
Time: 9 am – 5 pm
Venue/Platform: Google Classroom and Youtube
Organizer: Celcom Malaysia
Graduate Attributes: Enterprising Skills
Position/Role in the activities: Participant
Mini Report:
Celcom Siswapreneur @ Google Bootcamp 2020 Program is a free online digital marketing training program. It aims to increase graduate employability and enhance entrepreneurship skills by equipping students with digital marketing skills. The program also intends to nurturing Malaysia’s digital ecosystems and promoting digital entrepreneurs.
Celcom is partnered with Google to hold this program. This program is organized for students and staff of the colleges and universities in Malaysia in order to enhance the engagement. Due to the huge participants, the organizer has decided to hold four days and divided the universities and colleges into four teams for undergoing the training session easier. Universiti Teknologi Malaysia belongs to team four which is the day four, 22 October 2020. This program is held online via Google Classroom and YouTube Live.
Celcom used YouTube to live streaming the training sessions on using Google software. In Google Classroom, there are some assignments for us to practice the skills what we have learnt. After doing these assignments, the participants can gain a certificate. There are five modules and sessions have been prepared for us to learn to enhance the ICT skills by using Google software such as Google Doc, Slides, Sheets, Sites and My Business. There are exclusive Google merchandises prepared for participants to grab if winning the interactive quizzes regarding Google software.
Self-Reflection:
After joining this program, I learnt many ICT skills that I have no explore before. I am passionate and interested to learn much additional knowledge and skills. With knowledge of using Google software, I am capable to do some works more effectively. I am able to create a resume via Google Doc in a short time with nice and attractive templates. It is an essential skill especially for the graduates to do preparation for an interview before being employed. I also learnt how to create a marketing brochure via Google Slides. It will use if I work in the Marketing Department or I start my own business as an entrepreneur to attract customers to make the purchase and increase the sales directly. It made me more immense in learning these designing skills by using any other software.
Google Sheet is a software quite similar to Microsoft Excel. I have learnt on creating budgeting sheets on it. Budgeting sheet is very useful for starting a business and organizing events to have a clear picture of the number of financial resources need to prepared to run and sustain the business and events. Creating a business profile via Google My Business, I learnt to add in the business hours, name and other relating information. It will help to increase the exposure of the business on the search engine, Google.
With learning to use the software, it will increase the employability and adaptability since I know more than the others and I am ready and adapt to work in a real working environment without receiving any training from the future organizations. It also increases the entrepreneurship skills after joining the training sessions except for the Google Doc. The remaining sessions are important for entrepreneurs to equip with. Learning to create a website via Google Site, it is definitely helpful for digital entrepreneur which young people would love to enrol. It is also the trend of doing business online since the Covid-19 pandemic is a huge challenge for traditional business. There is no challenge that I have to overcome when joining this program.