Career in Food Science Anyone?

Food Scientists and Technologists Job Description

Another useful video on the work of a Food Scientist. This will help you gain a better understanding before you decide to join this course.

A Great Choice for Science Students

Food Science

Quite interesting on Food Science. A good option for Science students.

Banks are Hiring!

According to a report in News Straits Times today Banks are hungry for staff especially in sales. Now that the economy is picking up, banks are hungry to hire more in order to sell their products. Other than Finance and Accounting graduates, banks also need sales and marketing graduates to sell their products. There are plenty of opportunities for graduates in marketing, sales, advertising, PR or Mass Comm to work in banks.

Banks will need the expertise of the Mass Comm graduates to promote their products creatively via the many types of media such as newspapers, radio, tv, websites, social media, events, and more. Marketing graduates will have to perform research to find out where their target market is and what are the best strategies to reach them. They will need to deal with the distributors and also identify where their target market frequents most. For example, for credit cards, they will target young professionals who frequent the shopping malls. Sales graduates will train and motivate the sales people. They will figure out the best tools to sell the cards.

Honda Dreams Fund 2009 Scholarship

I came upon their ad in the Star newspaper 2 days ago….so, all those interested, please contact them and apply. Good luck!

 

AISM OFFERS THREE ACADEMIC SCHOLARSHIPS for 2010 – 2011

Please contact them for further details on their scholarship

Telephone :   03-8943 0622                    Fax :   03-8948 4522

Completed Application Forms, with supporting documents, should be submitted to

Ms Estrella del Mundo,

PA to the Principal, 22 Jalan Anggerik,

The Mines Resort City. 43300 Sri Kembangan. 

Selangor Darul Ehsan.

http://www.aism.edu.my/extra_pg/2010scholarship.html

Jobless! Chose the wrong Course?

A lot of us have had the same doubts go through our minds after finishing SPM. What if we are unable to find a job upon graduating with the course that we picked? I am sorry to say that there is no formula to getting a guaranteed job, only that we can make educated and well-informed decisions. Although I am not a professional career counselor, I can offer some insights from my years of experience in sharing with students about choosing the right course.

How do we choose a course that we know would be able to secure a good job? We can do a little research by reading the newspaper for one. The developments in our country can indicate future demand for jobs related to those developments.

According to the Star newspaper yesterday, it was reported that foreign tourists arrival to Malaysia in October alone increased by 14.3%. “Well, it doesn’t say much and how does that relate to jobs?” , you might ask. When tourists come to Malaysia, they will visit the tourist areas and spend money, thus giving jobs to those people working there. For example, tour guides, restaurants, shopping malls, retailers, tour agents, etc. From here, we can deduce that jobs in hospitality, culinary and tourism will increase in the next few years.

Good Luck to the 521,488 SPM & STPM Students

Just wishing the half a million students taking the SPM and STPM exams! Study hard and good luck!

An excerpt from Bernama:

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 18 (Bernama) — A total of 521,488 students sit for the Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) and Sijil Tinggi Pelajaran Malaysia (STPM) nationwide starting Wednesday.

Of them, 465,853 candidates take the SPM examination till Dec 16 while 5,635 sit for the STPM examination till Dec 10.

In the SPM examination, 406,420 of the candidates are ministry candidates, private candidates (32,561), Mara lower science colleges (MRSM) and army apprentice schools (7,071), state religious schools (8,765), and people’s and private religious schools (11,036).

More Jobs For Biotechnology Grads!

According to a report yesterday in the Businss Times newspaper, our Prime Minister indicated that the number of BioNexus-status companies will increase by 50 to a total of 185 in the next 2 years. What this means for those planning to study Biotechnology is that there will be more jobs available for them upon graduation.

BioNexus-status is the Biotech equivalent of the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) status that the government plans to emphasise and invest in. BioNexus status is awarded to eligible biotechnology companies which qualifies them for government incentives such as tax breaks and research grants aimed at bolstering the industry further. It’s old name was BioValley. Click here to read the article.

Is Engineering Right For You?

Psychiatrist Kills 12, Wounds 31

I saw this interesting story unfold on MSN and it brought back to memory what my professor told me when I was at the University of Oklahoma, USA. Although, slightly unrelated to the story, anyway, I was once a Pyschology major and took a lot of psychology subjects at the university, however, eventually I decided not to pursue this pathway as I would have needed at least a Masters to work as a counselor in Malaysia. I did not have the financial means to continue on, so I opted for Communications. One of my favorite Psych class was the Abnormal Psych class where the prof told us many interesting stories of people afflicted with the mental problems.

He also told us that the profession with the highest suicide rate are Psychologists because it was difficult for them to keep in all the problems that people shared with them. Hence, that’s how this killer psychiatrist story comes in. Quite ironic that a person in the profession that is supposed to help people deal with problems ends up killing people.

For those interested in the story, you can read below from NBC News and msnbc.com