{"id":176098,"date":"2023-10-29T23:19:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-29T23:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=176098"},"modified":"2023-11-01T14:01:07","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T14:01:07","slug":"iium-career-fair-2023-uncovering-careers-for-graduates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=176098","title":{"rendered":"IIUM Career Fair 2023: Uncovering Careers for Graduates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By<\/em><\/strong> <strong><em>Fasihah Zulkifli<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GOMBAK, 29 October 2023: IIUM Career Fair 2023 returned to navigate future graduates and students into the professional world, starting from 25 until 26 October 2023 at the IIUM Cultural Centre Hall (ICC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Organised by the IIUM Counseling and Career Service Centre (CCSC) in collaboration with JobStreet Malaysia, the event provided a platform for students to meet potential employers and consult their career pathways as there were 21 participating companies like CIMB, Prasarana, MYFutureJobs, and PKNS Real Estate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the opening ceremony, the Director of CCSC, Br. Saiful Redza Mohamed highlighted the opportunities for students to connect with the respective companies and receive consultation on professional careers, especially on salary guidelines, in his welcoming speech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"1280\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_0421.jpeg?fit=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"176102\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_0421.jpeg?fit=960%2C1280&amp;ssl=1\" data-link=\"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?attachment_id=176102\" class=\"wp-image-176102\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_0421.jpeg 960w, https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_0421-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_0421-768x1024.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Br. Saiful Redza giving opening speech<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"1280\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_0420.jpeg?fit=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"176103\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_0420.jpeg?fit=960%2C1280&amp;ssl=1\" data-link=\"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?attachment_id=176103\" class=\"wp-image-176103\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_0420.jpeg 960w, https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_0420-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_0420-768x1024.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Prof Dr. Akmal Khuzairy launching IIUM Career Fair 2023<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"1280\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_0419.jpeg?fit=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"176104\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_0419.jpeg?fit=960%2C1280&amp;ssl=1\" data-link=\"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?attachment_id=176104\" class=\"wp-image-176104\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_0419.jpeg 960w, https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_0419-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_0419-768x1024.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Cutting ceremonial banner by Br. Saiful Redza and Prof. Dr. Akmal Khuzairy<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The event was then officially launched by the Deputy Rector of Student Development and Community Engagement, Prof. Dr. Akmal Khuzairy Abd Rahman who shared his appreciation towards exhibitors and students in ensuring the success of the programme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prof. Dr. Akmal Khuzairy conveyed that the students should take the chance to ask participating companies on the expectations of the industry and try to fill in the gaps in order to elevate themselves among the 300,000 graduating students in Malaysia every year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Furthermore, he shared the concerns of final-year students about their future upon graduation and society expectations. Hence, the career fair should help the students to experiment with opportunities as they are at the age of \u02dcmake it or break it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u0153Leading the way is our strong drive, I hope that it would transform IIUM graduates to be the best amongst the best in embarking their future career,\u009d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moreover, he expressed his gratitude towards companies that were participating as they put their beliefs in IIUM students and graduates to serve the community and nation, locally and globally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, the opening ceremony was officiated by the cutting of ceremonial banners by Prof. Dr. Akmal Khuzairy and Br. Saiful Redza, and the presentation of a montage video by the committee. The ceremony closed with the presentation of tokens of appreciation to all 21 participating companies.***<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Fasihah Zulkifli GOMBAK, 29 October 2023: IIUM Career Fair 2023 returned to navigate future graduates and students into the professional world, starting from 25&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":176101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4,10,6,114,11,8,3],"tags":[],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[237,232,234],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_0418.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176098"}],"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\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=176098"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176150,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176098\/revisions\/176150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/176101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=176098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=176098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=176098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}