Reflection: Digital Portfolio/ Web-folio (Oral Presentation)

SHALINI SELVARAJ

Finally, we need to do a digital portfolio about ourselves and present it in the class. In digital portfolio, we should include our profile, personalities, education background, curriculum activities and working experiences. It is the first experiences for me to present about myself to other people. At first, I feel shy and awkward to do the presentation. But after seeing my course mates’ presentation, I feel more confident to present my own portfolio. This activity actually teaches me how to be confident during presentation. At the same, during preparing for the portfolio, I have a chance to flashback what I have done before and what I should do in the future to increase my knowledge, skill, and abilities. I also feel that I should attend more extra curriculum activities which can improve my knowledge in different aspect. Anyway, I feel very happy with my presentation.

Reflection: Web Blog

SHALINI SELVARAJ

Blogging is a common trend in today’s society. Many people use blog to share their ideas, opinion and experiences with their friends as well as with others too. In English for Career Research, we have been given instruction to create our own blog by our lecturer, Sir Ghazali. Therefore, we have to share our reflection about activities that are conducted in class on the blog. Basically, I have learnt how to create blog and how to blogging effectively. Through blogging, we can share our knowledge efficiently with others. In my opinion, I feel that blogging is a method to improve our self-confident about ourselves and also the information that are provided in the blog. At the same, I think we should use blog for good purposes that can benefit our surrounding people and not to misuse it for any other purposes.

Reflection: Job Interview

SHALINI SELVARAJ

Our lecturer, Sir Ghazali has been conducted group job interview in class for two weeks. This is really amazing experiences as I have a chance to interview other students and interviewed by other students at same time. I have learnt that it’s really difficult to answer job interview questions when we do not prepare for it earlier. We should predict the questions that we may get and prepare the answer accordingly. In real job interview, we obviously need to prepare a lot such as gathering some information about the organization, about the job and have a clear picture of our own KSA. I also get to know that good dressing is vital for any job interview in order to create a good first impression. Overall, we need to be confidents in answering question but not over confident. If we are stressed or nervous, it might be spoil our job interview.

 

Reflection: Job Application Letter

SHALINI SELVARAJ

I think every University students need to get used to job application letters because it will help them when they are applying job in future. Writing a job application letter is not as simple as we think because it has appropriate format and language. Again, I have learnt how to write a job application from our lecturer, Sir Ghazali’s instruction and the book “English for Class Research class”. Therefore, a job application letter will introduce our resume or CV when applying for a job interview. It becomes a foundation for us to convince our future employer that we will meet the requirements of the jobs that are offered. Therefore, I feel happy and relieved that I have learnt about job application letter which it’s really going to be useful for me in future especially when I applying for a new job.

Reflection: Curriculum Vitae

SHALINI SELVARAJ

Although before this, I have heard about Curriculum Vitae, but this is very first time I have the opportunity to write my own CV in English for Career Research. Basically, CV includes personal details such as name, address, telephone number, marital status, hobbies and interest, references, skill, personal details, career goal, gender and so on.  On this moment, I should thank to our lecturer; Sir Ghazali for giving us an opportunity to learn how to write CV. Since, there are many samples in the book “English for Class Research”, so it’s not that difficult for me to write CV based on the guidelines given in the book. As I have experienced on writing my own CV, so I will not be hesitated to write my own CV especially when I’m applying for a job. In fact, I will be more confident to write a good CV.

Reflection: Myline

SHALINI SELVARAJ

Myline is one of the class activities in English for Career Research . In Myline activity, we have to give our own opinion about two issues that posted in the forum. We have a choice to either agree, disagree or neutral to the statement posted by the writer. Personally, I feel this activity is good as it is able to make me to think more critically in the order to my express my ideas. Based on this activity, I’m able to know that everybody has different thinking style towards a problem in their life. It’s very difficult to assume that everybody has the same opinion on issues. Besides that, the issues that are posted on the forum are actually related to my life as a student. So, I’m quite excited to share my ideas on that forum and express my ideas in right way. This type of activity will improve our thinking ability…..

Reflection: Career Exploration

SHALINI SELVARAJ

My group is given an assignment which is to choose a company and find the basic information about company. At the same time, we also need to interview a professional who is working in HR field. To complete this assignment, our group went to Capaian Aspirasi Sdn Bhd (CASB) which is located Johor Bahru. We have been interviewed HR Executive, Mohd Farhan Bin Sarom. We have gathered so much information about HR executive jobs from Mr. Mohd Farhan Bin Sarom. He shared his experiences to become a HR executives with us. At same times, he provides some advices to us. For example, he told us not to or try not to attend the practical training in the government sector because there will be nothing much we can learn. Therefore, we should try to do practical training in private sector so that it can help us when we apply job in the future. I think its wise advice.