Rabu, September 26, 2012

85,200 SABAHANS JOBLESS LAST YEAR

85,200 Sabahans jobless last year – Pang

KOTA KINABALU September 26, 2012: Sabah recorded an unemployment rate of 5.2 per cent, with around 85,200 unemployed citizens in Sabah last year.

Youth and Sports Minister Datuk Peter Pang En Yin said the percentage of unemployment was relatively low and had not increased despite an increase in population.

The percentage was higher than the national level at three per cent,

Pang said, but comparable to Australia which was regarded as a fairly resilient economy, and half of France at about 10.2 per cent.

As a comparison, unemployment rate in the United States and the United Kingdom stood at 8.1 per cent while Spain and Greece at 25.1 per cent and 24.2 per cent respectively.

“The principal statistics on employment for last year showed that there were over 1.64 million people in the labour force in Sabah, increasing from almost 1.59 million in 2010 and 1.35 million in 2009,” he said when officiating at the opening of a public forum on human capital development at Sabah Development Corridor (SDC), here yesterday.

Pang, who is also deputy chairman of Sabah Economic Development and Investment Authority (Sedia), said the 85,200 unemployed figure in Sabah was small in comparison with the number of foreign labour in Sabah, particularly those in the plantation and construction sectors.

“What is very much needed now is to locate where these unemployed citizens are, and ascertain their qualification and skill level to enable them to be trained so that they can provide a pool of human capital geared to drive the economic transformation programme.”

Pang pointed out that Sabah had the potential to leverage its strategic position to link the rapidly growing BIMP-EAGA to the dynamic north East Asian Economics.

Indeed, Sabah has emerged as one of the top investment destinations in Malaysia, while the country itself has become one of the top ten destinations for foreign direct investment (FDI) in the world, he said.

Human capital development, as Pang said, apart from being a crucial factor in driving our economy and achieving the target to become a high-income and developed nation, was clearly one of the key determinants to attract private investment as this would be one of the major considerations of investors.

“As SDC has attracted an impressive amount of private investment, it is therefore important to ensure that there is sufficient pool of human resources with the required skills to meet the manpower requirement of the investors.”

Pang said Sabah had passed the development stage where we were attracting investments due to the availability of cheap labour.

“We need to recognize that our ability to transform into a high income economy will depend on our ability to generate adequate human capital and adaptable labour force with higher skills, talents, expertise and knowledge.

“Sabah indeed can no longer be a haven for cheap labour,” he said.

He explained that Sedia had been visiting and discussing with higher learning institutions locally and overseas on academic research and development collaborations and enticing these institutions to consider setting up campuses in Sabah, particularly in those sectors needed to support SDC projects.

He said the initiative would be intensified as Sedia embarked on the second phase of SDC, with emphasis in accelerating sustainable growth through first-class human capital and infrastructure.

The second phase of SDC, which coincides with the Tenth Malaysia Plan (10MP), focused on accelerating economic growth by attracting greater private investment and to provide specialized infrastructure with first-world talent base.

“This will require a holistic set of measures involving active partnership between the public and private sectors as well as the NGOs to raise the quality of our pool of human capital.”

Pang said Sedia has been appointed to implement, manage and monitor the placement and funding under the National Talent Enhancement Programme (NTEP) which aims to financially assist under-employed and unemployed Malaysians possessing diplomas, undergraduate degrees and/or higher qualifications secure employment with companies within the SDC.

“This will be provided by Sedia mandated companies of skills enhancement training and industrial exposure in selected fields of specialization for a period of up to 12 calendar months,” he said.

Pang also urged more companies to participate in the NTEP programme, and job seekers who are interested to register with Sedia.

“I am confident that Sedia, together with the combined collaborative efforts among the government agencies, industry players, higher learning institutions and the skills training centres, will be able to overcome the challenges to address the human capital requirement of the State and play an active role towards the realization of the national vision of becoming high-income and developed nation.”

The hosting companies for NTEP present yesterday include PY Konsep Perunding Sdn Bhd, JPSPEC Sdn Bhd, hatareka Perunding Sdn Bhd, Power Project Consulting Sdn Bhd, Jurutera Perunding Sri Arif Sdn Bhd, Perundign Rekajasa, and Wang Haron & Goh Sdn Bhd.

Also present at the event was Sedia president cum chief executive officer Datuk Dr Mohd Yaakub Hj Johari.

by Chok Sim Yee

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Make full use of job centre, youths told

FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT OF SABAH EXCELLENT UNDER MUSA

37 ulasan:

  1. There are many Job fair recently in Sabah. Among them BN-Youth Job Fair, Sandakan BN-Youth Job Fair...Wondering why more & more of our youth has no job...

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    1. Yes, Sabah has offered lots of job opportunities and the youth should be well equipped with that.

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    2. The Graduate Employability Blue­print to assist unemployed graduates will be set up by the end of this year.

      About 180,000 students graduate with diplomas and degrees from institutions of higher learning every year.

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    3. To assist young ICT entrepreneurs, the Prime Minister also announced the setting up of a New Entrepreneur Foundation with an initial allocation of RM50mil.

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    4. Are they jobless or they are just called jobless because not work at private or public sector?

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  2. In Dec 2010,

    "more than 2,500 jobs were on offer in Sabah: from the menial to managerial. About 3,500 job seekers, many of them seeking better jobs, registered with employment agencies such as the Sabah job centre and online job portals such as JobsMalaysia and Jobstreet during career expos in Kota Kinabalu, Tuaran and Tawau."

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    1. A Young Entrepreneurs Fund with an allocation of RM50mil would also be established by the SME Bank.

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  3. Employer complains that many job seekers lack higher skills and qualifications for managerial, supervisory and technical jobs.

    To solve this issues, minister of resource development and information technology Dr Yee Moh Chai stated that his ministry is carrying out a study of Sabah’s manpower needs for 15 years from 2011 which will cut down job mismatches.

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  4. The Sabah government has been working hard to equip Sabahans with the right job skills through free training courses. Chief minister Musa Aman stated that:

    “Sabahans must have at least an extra skill to improve their earning potentials and be on par with people in the rich world,”

    He added that:

    “This is why my government stresses on the importance of lifelong learning.”

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  5. On the other hand, Dr Yee’s ministry has trained more than 150,000 in ICT as the federal and state governments are determined to give Malaysians the skills that are needed in the job market.

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    1. kalau mahu kemahiran, sebenarnya banyak kursus2 percuma yang ditaja oleh kerajaan untuk diikuti jika golongan muda memanfaatkan peluang tersebut.

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    2. Anak-anak muda harus mengambil peluang untuk mngikuti krusus-krusus yang di sediakan oleh kerajaan.

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  6. Kan banyak budak Sabahan suka ambil nursing course di kolej yang tipu,'janji dapat kerja dlm 3 bulan',rasanya banyak budak ditipu, ni mungkin meningkatkan percentage jobless di Sabah.

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    1. kolej2 swasta yang hanya utamakan keuntungan tu, tidak hairanlah. apapun, kadang2 dapat kerja ka tidak, bergantung juga dengan diri sendiri.

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    2. Kolej-kolej swasta ada yang tidak betul juga, jangan terlalu percaya dengan janji dapat kerja dalam masa singkat.

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  7. Sabahan patut meningkatkan pengetahuan dan teknik dalam bidang yang sesuai, kerajaan ada menyediakan kursus percuma untuk semua orang.

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  8. Mengalakkan semua Sabahan mengambil kursus yang relevan dan lebih positif dalam pencarian kerja.

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    1. Pilih kursus yang banyak pasaran kerja. jangan sembarang pilih kursus.

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  9. Masalah pengangguran kadang-kala kerana masalah individual tu yang tidak ingin mencari kerja,dan menyalahkan tiada syarikat yang ingin mengambil mereka.

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    1. Terlalu memilih kerja pun antara sebab utama masalah pengangguran ini.

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  10. Perjuangan negara bukan sahaja tanggungjawab kerajaan, rakyat-rakyat perlu melaksanakan tugasan sendiri.

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  11. Teruskan lagi usaha yang baik bagi menyelesaikan masalah pengangguran yang terdapat di Sabah ini.

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  12. tambahan lagi sekarang ini begitu banyak kolej swasta dan IPT dibuka namun menjadi masalah adalah peluang pekerjaan diluar sana yang tidak dapat menanmpung keluaran pelajar tersebut.

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    1. Akhirnya, pelajar juga hadapi masalah untuk membayar balik pinjaman mereka.

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  13. RM30 billion is allocated to the economic sector for infrastructure, industrial, agriculture and rural development.

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    1. Harap ia secara tidak langsung membuka peluang pekerjaan.

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    2. Deangan adanya projek-projek yang di buat oleh kerajaan, pasti akan lebih banyak peluang pekerjaan yang akan di sediakan.

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  14. A total of RM11.1 billion is allocated to the social sector including education and training, health, welfare, housing and community development. In addition, RM4.6 billion is allocated for the development of the Security Sector, RM2 billion for General Administration and RM2 billion for Contingencies.

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  15. Kalau telampau memilih kerja sampai bila-bila pun menganggur la maknanya.

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    1. jgnlah terlalu memilih kerja, kerja saja sementara mencari kerja yang lebih baik.

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  16. Saya pun pernah juga alami masalah cari kerja tapi asalkan kita berusaha dapat juga tu.

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  17. Keadaan ekonomi sekarang ini menuntu kita untuk jadi orang yang bijak mengambil peluang.

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  18. Kepada yang belum ada kerja tu, all the best.

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  19. pada masa ini mmg sukar nak mencari pekerjaan, peluang pekerjaan tidak begitu terhad.

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  20. Jika berusaha lebih kuat, pasti ada peluang, perlu banyak bersabar, lagipun sekarang ini kerajaan telah banyak memberikan program-program dan krusus secara percuma untuk rakyat bagi menambah ilmu pengetahuan dalam bidang tertentu.

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  21. ada banyak peluang pekerjaan di sabah.. buktinya ialah, negeri ini menjadi tumpuan rakyat asing sejak sekian lama.. jika tidak ada pekerjaan, mustahil begitu ramai pekerja asing di negeri ini..

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  22. banyak program2 telah dilaksanakan oleh kerajaan bagi mengatasi masalah ini, dan banyak juga projek2 pembangunan atau pelaburang berjaya dibawa masuk oleh kerajaan.. semua ini bakal membuka peluang pekerjaan yang banyak kepada penduduk sabah..

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