MY REFLECTION OF BLOG

Blog.  For me, it is one of the interesting medium for people especially teenagers to express their feelings, their opinion, their experience, so on and so forth.  I have intention to make a blog before this, but I have no time.  And by this subject, I have opportunity to have a blog account.  It was great.  At the beginning, it is difficult for me to explore the blog.  At the end, I am still not an expert people, but at the mean times, I know to use the blog, know to post the assignment and know all the basic things.  Maybe, after this I will make my own blog. Thanks for this subject, because make me and my friends to do a blog and I gain a new knowledge.  

MY REFLECTION OF DIGITAL PORT FOLIO

                      I love this assignment, it’s like an opportunity for me to introduce myself to others, and it also make me know myself better.  In this topic, we are required to make our port folio by using digital methods.  Basically, there are a lot of methods that I can use.  But because of some technical problem I can’t download the software, and so I just use the power point.   And again, I love to do this power point with my creativity.  I play with the colours, the font the design and so on.  During the presentation, my slide was change smoothly, even though I did not put the effect but I satisfied with my work.   These topics help me increase my knowledge in using power point, during test and error. 

MY REFLECTION OF ORAL PORTFOLIO

            Actually, I am not prepared to do this oral portfolio due to some activities that I need to do before this career research class.  We are requiring presenting about our profile, our personality, our education background, and our co-curriculum activities. But, I already do the best.  For me, during the oral portfolio I deliver the point with the confident, I manage to finish my slide, and I speak with the loud voice.  But, the times given it’s not enough for me.  There a lot of things that I want to say, but due to the limit time I need to speak very fast and skip a few point.   Basically, this oral increase my confident to talk in front of others. 

MY REFLECTION OF MOCK INTERVIEW

                   Interview is a final stage to get the job.  During interview, there have question and answer session, and candidates will be asking regarding general knowledge and question about creative thinking.  Interview is crucial stages, because it will show our confident level, our communication skills, our appreance, our personality so on and so forth.  To go to the interview, candidates should be prepared enough, so that it will easily answer all questions and be able to catch employer’s attention.  During mock interview in the classes, I got the experience to be interviewers and interviewees, and of course to be interviewees, my feeling was mixed and I felt so nervous.  But, I try to calm and answer the question with confident.  Generally, these topics give me some experiences to be interview, because before this I never had this kind of experience.  And, of course I will apply what have I learnt in this class during interview later.  

MY REFLECTION OF MYLINE

The things that I get from myline activities are, I can give my opinion directly on the topic that had been discuses.  There are 3 topic which is each topic require student to share some knowledge, give some idea and some recommendation to the topic.  It is similar like a forum which is able to every student to give their opinion on the topic that been discussed.  Instead, the topics in myline give general knowledge to me, because the topic that had been discussed is about current issue that happened nowdays.  Through myline also, I know the program and contest provided by Ministry of Education.  

MY REFLECTION OF COVER LETTER

                         Cover letter is one of the most vital documents when applying the job.  What I have been learnt during lecture are the cover letter as a personal representative to employer.  Which is, there include personal statement.  In cover letter, we will state about our strength, show our organizational skill, show our interest to join that company and proclaim our creativity.  Basically, cover letter is the ways to show the qualification regarding the position that we apply.  So, refers to cover letter, it will save the employer time.   By this topic also, I learnt on how to write the formal letters, and I learnt to use the suitable word to attract the employers. 

MY REFLECTION OF CURRICULUM VITAE

                    Curriculum vitae is important for those who seeking the job.  Based on this curriculum vitae, employer will be informed all the detail of information regarding the candidates.  Normally, curriculum vitae are the first stage for the employer to choose their candidates, they will go through the candidates resume and they will select the suitable one for the position.   In class, I have learnt how to prepare the curriculum vitae that can attract employer attention.  There are many ways to do the curriculum vitae and it based on the position that we want to apply.  Initially, I think that we must put all the details of information regarding our activities, position held, result, so on and so forth in curriculum vitae.  But now, I understand that actually we just need to put only the important information and the pages require only two.  This is to facilitate the employer to make choice.   These topics help me much in preparing resume for future use.

INTERVIEW SESSION at MSTS Asia Johor Port

On 4 October 2012 my groups went to Johor Port, for completing our interview session at MSTS Asia. When we arrived at MSTS Company, we are surprised because this company were located at coastal area. We are very excited because we got opportunity to feel the actual environment seem like at offshore plant. Here, there are about our interviewer’s details:

Name:

 Andy Paterson

Position:

·         Head of Training & Operations, Regional

Employer:

·         MSTS ASIA SDN BHD

Academic Qualification:

•  High Scholl in United Kingdom
• Diploma in Management
• Certificate training management

Working experience:

• He began from the bottom, and learning from zero because he starts to work as a cleaner at Dutch company. In the age of 17 he involves in practical training as trainer for two years experiences, his youth desire to working outside make him apply to work at Malaysia but he failed because of his age. After a few years he apply again that position which is have 400 applicants, only 50 selected for interview session then 10 from 50 applicants was selected for final interviews and he is the only one was chosen by the company.

• He has 25 years as trainer in safety and health that related to the oil and gas industry. Beside that’s, he also have 7 years working experiences as training instructor in Holland then up to senior instructor.

• He also has working experiences in other branches around Asia such as in Philippine, South Korea, Vietnam, Bangkok and many more.

  

Other skills:

• Managerial skill
•  Supervisorial skill
• Leadership skill
• Communication skill
• Customer service skill

Starting salary:

·         USD 20,000

Current salary:

·         USD 87, 965

Company size:

·         Multinational across the region

Fringe benefits:

•    Car fringe benefits
•    Entertainment
•  Housing
•   Living away from home allowance (LAFHA)
•  Telecommunication expenses
•  Transfer and appointment expenses
• Travel expenses

Medical Plan:

·         Have panel clinic (OASIS Johor Port) also covered under company insurance

Corporate culture:

·        He has opportunity to learn and develop his knowledge, skill, and ability through training. Meanwhile about relationship between subordinate are close and treat like as one big family besides that satisfy customer’s needs are the priorities.

Travelling frequency:

·         As they are lots of branches, of course he need to travel frequently at least minimum in a year he will have four times opportunities to travel.

Training undergone:

• Customer service
• Oil and gas training
•   Leadership
•   Managerial and supervisory skill for trainer
•   Professional training course for trainer

Job responsibilities:

·         Observe trainer development performance, assessing the trainer’s performance especially during conducting training program, ensure all the equipment and facilities were controlled and sufficient, other than that he also ensure all the need’s client was satisfied.

Advice for undergraduate seeking the same career path:

·         It is okay to begin with zero experience especially for fresh graduated, but to become succeed they need to have courage and motivation to start their career in this industry. Knowledge, skill and experience all important in order to ensure they are competent and able to keep fighting in this path.

Our group members with Andy Paterson

 This is his business card

REFLECTION FOR CAREER PLAN

Career Plan? Is that important? At the beginning, I thought career plan, is one of the topic that we must learn in career research. But, after Sir Ghazali explained and asked us to do our career plan.   Now, I knew that career plan is important, and actually it is very important especially to student like us.  Because, honestly I say that I don’t have any idea on what I want to be in future.  It’s like just follow the flow.

But, after I got the assignment from Sir Ghazali, I know that I must find one job that suitable with my personality. And, finally I found that I want to be a Police. So, I must know the police job description and the stages. I will start with police inspector and if there have luck, I will establish my own business. Career plan as guidance to me, based on my strength and weakness, I can make a preparation on what I want to be and achieve long term career goal in future.