70% Of Graduate Training Scheme Participants Get Jobs

December 03, 2008 17:14 PM
70% Of Graduate Training Scheme Participants Get Jobs
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 3 (Bernama) -- About 70 percent of 38,164 people who attended the Graduate Training Scheme have obtained jobs, the Dewan Negara was told Wednesday.Deputy Human Resources Minister Datuk Noraini Ahmad said the figure showed the scheme launched in 2001 with a RM240 million allocation to assist jobless graduates gain employment, had achieved its objective."The ministry plans to draw up programmes to retrain the jobless graduates with the cooperation of agencies like the Malaysian Institute of Microelectronics Systems and Multimedia Development Corporation for skills enhancement according to industry requirements."The training will focus on the fields of information technology, English, personal enhancement, soft skills and so on," she said in reply to Senator J. Usha Nandhini.Usha wanted to know whether the ministry had plans to relaunch the Graduate Traning Scheme for jobless graduates and also the Retrenched Workers and Unemployed Training Scheme following the global economic crisis.Noraini also said the ministry had set up the Worker Retrenchment Monitoring Committee and Worker Welfare Care Committee whose roles were to ensure the welfare of retrenched workers and help them get jobs.She said the government, through Pembangunan Sumber Manusia Bhd, was also implementing the Retrenched Worker Training Scheme with the aim of training private sector workers who had lost their jobs."About RM10 million has been allocated to implement the scheme to enable the retrenched workers apply for retraining without charge to gain new skills and employment," she said.Noraini also said 100,339 jobless graduates had registered with the online job search system, Job Malaysia, to date.She said the government was also implementing the Software Development Specialist Training aimed at producing more specialists in software development to meet the need of Multimedia Super Corridor-status companies."The programme has been identified as being able to give added value to jobless information technology graduates so that they are more marketable in the job market," she said.-- BERNAMA