A controversial statement by Malaysian Human Resources Minister, Datuk Dr Fong Chan Onn on the main reason why ICT grads in the country are still jobless.

The statement was published in national papers, like The Star on 6th July.

He said:

• The majority of the 20,000+ registered unemployed graduates in the country are those who took ICT courses in local institutions of higher learning (public and private).  
• They are jobless because what they had learnt had become obsolete. 
• The courses they studied were not the latest because the institutions had not kept up with changing technology and job market requirements. The govt is in talks with the relevant bodies to sort this out.

The graduates:

• have to be proactive and upgrade themselves to meet current demands.
• must know how to get information on job vacancies advertised in the ministry’s electronic labour exchange. 

Potential employers are looking for graduates, in hundreds at a time, who took certified professional software development courses - this would be stuff like asp, VB, php.

The scheme offered ICT courses that were in accordance with what ICT-based companies wanted, he added.  

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