LAUNCHING....
Minister of Resource Development and IT Dr Yee Moh Chai together with the
Ministry's Permanent Secretary Bruno Vun (right) and Principal Assistant
Secretary of the Ministry Moira David (left) lat the launching of the Sabah Job
Expo 2012.
By : ELAINE MAH
The Ministry of Resource
Development and Information Technology, led by Datuk Dr. Yee Moh Chai continues
its bid to tackle unemployment in the state with various programmes planned for
2013.
According to Dr. Yee, among
the Ministry’s programmes is the second phase study on Sabah's Manpower
Planning Requirement 2010 – 2025, which will serve as a preliminary step
towards fulfilling the demand of manpower in the state.
Dr. Yee told reporters this
after officiating the annual Sabah Job Expo at Suria Sabah Shopping Complex,
Kota Kinabalu today.
“The study is a roadmap on
the manpower supply and demand over the next 15 years,” he said.
According to Dr. Yee, the
study will give a clearer picture of the manpower requirements of the state,
and will focus on the needs of the various ongoing projects. They include the
Sabah Development Corridor projects, the oil and gas industry, the fast-growing
tourism industry and the palm oil industry – all of which will generate mass
employment opportunities.
“We need to understand the
job requirements and the labour demand of these sectors. At the same time, we
also need to know what sort of facilities we need to put in place to produce
skilled workers," he said.
Dr. Yee stressed that there
is a need for the state to be well equipped in terms of producing the right
workers for the right jobs to ensure that it has the trained manpower to carry
out its ongoing and future development projects.
“We must position ourselves
and put in place all the necessary training facilities, and do so together with
the private sector to ensure that the development of the state and the country
as a whole will not be hampered or delayed because of a lack of training
facilities, or because of a mismatch of training with the manpower needs at any
given time,” he said.
ENCOURAGING.....
Minister of Resource Development and Information Technology Dr. Yee Moh Chai
(left) together with his Permanent Secretary Bruno Vun (right) encouraging the
youths during the expo.
Commenting on the job expo,
Dr. Yee said that the Ministry constantly faces the problem of unemployment on the one hand and
labour shortage on the other.
“We always find ourselves in a lose-lose
situation,” he said.
Therefore, according to Dr.
Yee, the purpose of the job expo is to try and match suitable employees with
employers.
The two-day expo features 41
participating companies offering over 2,500 jobs.
Among job seekers who
attended the expo is 40 year-old Supian bin Mus. Supian, who works as a 'free-lancer'
in the transportation industry. He is
looking at careers in the service industry.
Nurimah Mahmmud, 26, has a
Diploma in Healthcare. Having worked in a clinic before, Nurimah is looking for
a career outside healthcare to broaden her experience. She praises the Ministry
for the job expo which offers a more convenient way to look for a job.
“It is easier to look for a
job here where all the companies are gathered together, rather than searching
on the Internet and newspapers,” she said. (Insight Sabah)
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