I attended a careers and personal development workshop at Oxford last weekend. The workshop was attended by approximately 20 students from various universities.
Speakers:
2 speakers were invited for this workshop. The first speaker is Dr. Sariah Barnes, a lecturer in Entrepreneurial Management from University of Oxford. She is a malay woman, born and grew up in Malaysia. Her name has 'Barnes' at the end simply because she married with an Englishman. She is a book and street smart. She graduated from Cambridge and Oxford. She also owned several companies and became a millionaire when she was 20. Amazing isn't it? She was the consultant to the Prime Minister for 15 years.
The second speaker is Mr. Hamidi Abdul Rahman, the Chairman of Inter Nexus Protocol Sdn. Bhd, an MSC status company. The way he build his careers is very interesting. After graduation, he worked with a company in the UK. After 3 months of employment, he wrote a letter to the management saying that he want to buy the company share. He bought 10% of the company share after 6 months of employment. haha, i can't imagine that. He told that the most important thing is to show them that we have the ability and lots of ideas. After a few years, he sold his share and open his own company.
Speakers:
2 speakers were invited for this workshop. The first speaker is Dr. Sariah Barnes, a lecturer in Entrepreneurial Management from University of Oxford. She is a malay woman, born and grew up in Malaysia. Her name has 'Barnes' at the end simply because she married with an Englishman. She is a book and street smart. She graduated from Cambridge and Oxford. She also owned several companies and became a millionaire when she was 20. Amazing isn't it? She was the consultant to the Prime Minister for 15 years.
The second speaker is Mr. Hamidi Abdul Rahman, the Chairman of Inter Nexus Protocol Sdn. Bhd, an MSC status company. The way he build his careers is very interesting. After graduation, he worked with a company in the UK. After 3 months of employment, he wrote a letter to the management saying that he want to buy the company share. He bought 10% of the company share after 6 months of employment. haha, i can't imagine that. He told that the most important thing is to show them that we have the ability and lots of ideas. After a few years, he sold his share and open his own company.
The organiser claimed that both of them are two most competent Malays in the world and i agree with them.
Inputs:
Leader appearance. When talking in front of audience, don't make lots of movements. Talking with 'paused' to give audience time to absorb the inputs. When shaking hand, look at the person face. (She pointed out that Pak Lah has a bad habit of not looking at the person he shaking hand with -> this is rude!!!). Leader should always use 'we', 'us' not 'you'
Everyone has the ability to become excellent. Whether we are oxford students, sheffield students or IPTA students, we are the same. It just the matter of whether we use our brain or not.
Think global
copy and steal other people positive attributes
'fikir sebelum cakap'. We must know what we are saying and talk based on evidence not assumptions.
Example of positive personal attributes:
high self esteem, action oriented, self-discipline, persistent, practise what we preach/read, maintain high integrity, manage time successfully, good communicator, well groom and dress, keep fit and healthy, leading a balance life, good human relationship, treat everyone with respect and dignity, sharing genuine interest with others, creating win-win relationship, good listener, calling people mistake indirectly, receptive to constructive solution, practise self responsibly.
Involve in business which we know we can become a big player or a leader.
Others:
The tuition fees for oxford student is extremely expensive which is 40,000 pounds (RM280,000) per year. Average tuition fees for UK top universities are around 11,000 to 13,000 pounds. However, oxford students get extra attention from their lecturers and supervisors.
One of the main challenges in doing business in Malaysia is corruption and 'dengki khianat'. You can have the best product with the best price and still get rejected while companies which not even fulfill the main requirements won the bid.
Malaysian are smart and have lots of ideas but usually the implementation is inefficient.
Inputs:
Leader appearance. When talking in front of audience, don't make lots of movements. Talking with 'paused' to give audience time to absorb the inputs. When shaking hand, look at the person face. (She pointed out that Pak Lah has a bad habit of not looking at the person he shaking hand with -> this is rude!!!). Leader should always use 'we', 'us' not 'you'
Everyone has the ability to become excellent. Whether we are oxford students, sheffield students or IPTA students, we are the same. It just the matter of whether we use our brain or not.
Think global
copy and steal other people positive attributes
'fikir sebelum cakap'. We must know what we are saying and talk based on evidence not assumptions.
Example of positive personal attributes:
high self esteem, action oriented, self-discipline, persistent, practise what we preach/read, maintain high integrity, manage time successfully, good communicator, well groom and dress, keep fit and healthy, leading a balance life, good human relationship, treat everyone with respect and dignity, sharing genuine interest with others, creating win-win relationship, good listener, calling people mistake indirectly, receptive to constructive solution, practise self responsibly.
Involve in business which we know we can become a big player or a leader.
Others:
The tuition fees for oxford student is extremely expensive which is 40,000 pounds (RM280,000) per year. Average tuition fees for UK top universities are around 11,000 to 13,000 pounds. However, oxford students get extra attention from their lecturers and supervisors.
One of the main challenges in doing business in Malaysia is corruption and 'dengki khianat'. You can have the best product with the best price and still get rejected while companies which not even fulfill the main requirements won the bid.
Malaysian are smart and have lots of ideas but usually the implementation is inefficient.
1 comment:
Great career event shared by you. Thanks you for motivating students in the manner of getting right kind of jobs.
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