{"id":136219,"date":"2019-12-06T15:30:59","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T15:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=136219"},"modified":"2019-12-07T05:50:58","modified_gmt":"2019-12-07T05:50:58","slug":"fly-high-7-0-recruiters-share-what-they-expect-from-young-graduates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=136219","title":{"rendered":"Fly High 7.0: Recruiters share what they expect from young graduates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Nur Aiman Najiha Azman<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GOMBAK, 6 December 2019: Jimmy Johnson once said, &#8220;The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fly High 7.0, held in campus here on Thursday (5 December), was a platform for future graduates to prepare themselves to be extraordinary graduates before entering the career sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In conjunction with the event, several prominent companies like CIMB, Adnexio, and ASTRO were invited to a forum entitled &#8220;What We Want From Graduates&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The session was moderated by the Counsellor of Counselling and Career Services Centre, Nor Adilah Mohd Nor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prominent speakers from the companies shared their experience and useful tips on what recruiters want or expect from university graduates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Affendy Hasni, Head of Growth Hacking from Adnexio shared several important things employers are looking for from young graduates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1- Be resourceful.<br>2- Young graduates have to work hard. There is no shortcut. Put your time and energy to work. Give solution instead of problems.<br>3- Have some common sense in doing work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/DSC_0401-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-136222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/DSC_0401-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/DSC_0401-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/DSC_0401-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Iman Karim, Branded Content &amp; Partnership, Content Group at ASTRO, emphasised that graduates nowadays need to come out from their comfort zone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said, &#8220;New things don&#8217;t come out when we have the same people with same thinking around us. Graduates need to have different perspectives.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/DSC_0450-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"136224\" data-link=\"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?attachment_id=136224\" class=\"wp-image-136224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/DSC_0450-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/DSC_0450-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/DSC_0450-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Iman, who is an alumni of IIUM (Psychology Department), added that the ability to communicate and to be presentable is so important. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He advised students to go to any Career Fair and &#8220;find out what your interest and what you can do for yourself.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Terrence Chow, Sale Wealth Trainer of CIMB, shared many tips on how to be presentable during interview. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He highlighted that during an interview session, graduates have to dress properly. &#8220;Show the passion to join the company.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;But before that, do research about the company. At least, take note about the background of the company. Don&#8217;t come with zero knowledge,&#8221; Terence Chow explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Young graduates have been advised to prepare themselves physically and mentally before entering the career sector. ***<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Nur Aiman Najiha Azman GOMBAK, 6 December 2019: Jimmy Johnson once said, &#8220;The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.&#8221; Fly High&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":141,"featured_media":136221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[111,12,141],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191205_115014.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136219"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/141"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136219"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136364,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136219\/revisions\/136364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/136221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}