Summary
The aim of this talk is to inform and educate students about Global Online Workforce (GLOW) and what benefit can students get by joining this program. Besides, indirectly this talk is also for informing students how Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC) as a platform to nurture the growth of local tech companies whilst attracting foreign direct investments (FDIs) and domestic direct investments (DDIs) from global multinational companies. In addition, students can also listen about success story of people who had join GLOW. This talk is important because it will open their eyes of something new because all this time we had always have that mindset that working can only be done outside of our houses and that we need to be connected to an organization to be considered as a worker. Most importantly the aim of this talk is to educate students about freelancer.
INTRODUCTON
Nowadays the word freelancer no longer sounds unfamiliar. Although it is still growing among people all around the world but it has become big enough to be recognized. A freelancer is a professional who offers her or his services to one or several clients at once without being exclusively obligated to any one of them. Freelancers offer varied services and their work can take different forms. Freelancer can work flexibly to serve any demand of that a business venture might have. They can do work range from marketing to even writing and web programming. Freelancing has become a quite popular professional choice recently. This is due to a lot of benefits when people do freelancing can get although it is quite risky sometimes. Some of the advantages doing freelancing are you can choose your own working schedule and hours, and then you can also decide whether you want to do it full time or part time. There’s a lot of platform for those who wants to be a freelancer through third party. Therefore, GLOW is one of the platforms for those who want to freelance. They can start it from the bottom by using GLOW as a medium and then grow big as a freelancer.
On 24th September, Miss Nor Ashikin Halil, a representative from GLOW had given a talk to School of Computing students about GLOW and educate us a little bit about freelancing.
HOW MDEC GET PEOPLE TO JOIN THIS PROGRAM
Usually MDEC always held a free seminar/workshop for students in university. The seminar is done mostly for two days. This is one of the good steps taken to attract more students to join this program because they can learn and have more understanding about the program before joining it and at the same time making them interested to join.
Besides, MDEC also frequently send its speaker to give a talk about this program to all around the country.
IMPACT OF THE PROGRAM TO MALAYSIA
This program although seems simple but it has a lot of impact towards our country. For example, it can provide alternative sources of incomes for Malaysians via multiple online platforms. As we all know there is a huge opportunity regarding online source of income. So, from that we can already see how much this program can change how Malaysians get their income from and teach them to be more creative in searching for income.
Next, this program also can help to develop a support program for Malaysian freelancers to remain motivated, driven and committed in earning digital income via crowdsourcing platforms. Therefore, it can also help to create a community of full time high quality crowd workers among Malaysian. And last but not least, this program also impacted Malaysia by establish a sustainable model on the Global Online Workforce program through engagement with strategic partners. So, with that a lot of investors from outside of our country will invest in Malaysia.
CONCLUSION
In conclusion, there are so many info that we, School of computing students can get by this talk about GLOW. We can get to know more about what is freelancer and what GLOW is about. At the end of the talk, we are all well informed of many benefits of this program and how to join it.
WHAT IS GLOW
GLOW is an acronym that stands for Global Online Workforce. It is a program to assist Malaysians to leverage on crowdsourcing platforms to generate digital revenue consistently and on a full time basis. Crowdsourcing represents the future in how jobs, projects and work are offered and taken up via online platforms. So, GLOW is basically an online platform for those who wants to do freelancing but don’t know how and where to start. GLOW has a quite large range of job that freelancer can take.
BENEFITS OF THIS PROGRAM
There’s a lot of benefit that student and other people can get by joining this program. One of the best advantages you can get is flexible working environment and time. This is important for those who wanted to be a freelancer as they wanted to be free when doing their job at first. They can choose a job that suits their own preferences.
Next, freelancer who join GLOW program can also become a more discipline and independent person. This is due to having to complete digital works as per requirements by employers. So, they’ll learn how to be better in satisfying employer’s desire to get the job done the way they wanted.
After that, by joining this program, people also have very high chances to open and develop their own digital agency. This is not impossible because while being a freelancer and taking job through GLOW they can analyze and hones their own potential, and by then they know what is the best way for them to start up their own agency. Last but not least, in addition of that, they are also able to generate a stable and consistent income.
WHO CAN JOIN GLOW
Basically whoever wants to do freelancing is free to join this program as long as they have some ability to be offered. There’s a variety and very wide range of job that can be chose so there must be something for anyone.
One type of group of people who can join this program is experienced freelancers or crowd workers in local and global crowdsourcing platforms. Besides, experienced offline and face to face freelancers are also welcomed to join this program.
After that, committed and dedicated aspiring to be crowd workers with qualifications and capabilities in various disciplines are very welcomed to join this program. Unemployed graduates and retrenched workers with the commitment to become crowd workers are also those who can join.
Last but not least, those who can join this program are also registered individuals in employment programs by ministries, government agencies and at state level.
REFLECTION
For me I think there are a lot of good things we can get by joining this program. Although there will also have its disadvantages and also it is quite risky but the outcome is more convincing. By the talk given by Cik Nor Ashikin Halil, I am so interested about freelancing and convinced to join this program because we are free to choose our working environment and working hours. I’ve had always dreaming of having my own schedule on where, how and on what time I want to work. So, this program is one of the best choice for those who have the same mindset as mine.
Besides, most of us mostly must have the same goal when talking about choosing a job isn’t it. The income is one of the biggest factor in choosing a job. So, for me I think for those who are aiming for a very good and stable income, this program is one of the best choice.
Last but not least, one of the factor that lead me to liking this program is because of its variety of jobs to choose. So, with that we can also be a versatile freelancer as we didn’t have to do just one kind of job. We are free to choose any jobs that is suitable for us and any jobs that we are capable of doin.g