Fresh graduates bogged down by self-pity

My long standing view has been the Education system or lack of, in this country has done our youth a great disservice.

Pretty good pov by the daughter of a government servant made good.

Fresh graduates bogged down by self-pity

J Vernes

Published:  Mar 22, 2006 3:43 PM

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Updated: Jan 29, 2008 6:21 PM

I refer to the letter Harsh realities facing fresh graduates .

I am the daughter of a simple government servant, who instilled in us the need to work hard and to keep on learning and growing intellectually. There are no prominent politicians, highly-connected families with power or money in my background. Yet today I hold a managerial position in a multinational. I, too, can speak from my heart about the reality of the so-called working world.

I recently had the opportunity to work with some fresh graduates on one of my projects. The majority of these students graduated in the areas of computer science, economics and science. Yet out of the almost 125 that I had under me from all over Malaysia, I can safely say that maybe only 10 of them could string a full sentence in English, let alone carry a conversation in one. Those that could were mostly from Sabah and Sarawak.

And before I am accused of being pro-Western, let me just say that when these students were given a free hand to converse in their familiar Bahasa Malaysia, their entire conversation was centred around who was their favorite person from Akademi Fantasia, what was Mawi's favourite food, how come Felix was given bad choices for songs, etc. Ask them about what they think government could do to help more graduates secure jobs and they stare at you blankly. Yet they are the ones that complain the loudest about the lack of jobs for them.

Go here > https://www.malaysiakini.com/letters/48727 to read about our country's woes.