CCSC IN ACTION! 2/2018

CCSC IN ACTION!

NO.2/2018 APRIL - AUGUST 2018

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COUNSELING AND CAREER SERVICES CENTRE, IIUM

COUNSELING RELATED PROGRAMMES

Emotional Well Being

"This programme is specifically Date : 3rd April 2018
designed to create awareness Topic : Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
among students on the Time : 8.30pm – 10.30pm
importance of emotional well- Venue : LT 2, KENMS
being and to guide and help Speaker: Sr. Nur Masturah
students to have a healthy Mohamad Arif, Counselor (IIUM)
emotional and mental state.
 Emotional well-being is a sense
which to help a person functioning
well in their daily life.  Maintaining
and caring for emotional well-
being is important because it helps
an individual in coping with
problems as well as able to adjust
with changes that may occur in
their life.  Thus, for the second
series, it was conducted to help
students in understanding about
their self-concept and identity."

WORKSHOP ON SELF EMPOWERMENT (WOSE)

Phenomena of “Makcik Bawang”

Date : 4th April – 5th April 2018 "Workshop on Self-Empowerment (WOSE) is an
Time : 8.30pm – 10.30pm annual programme organized by CCSC.  It is the
Venue : Experimental Hall combination of CCSC’s four main programmes
Speaker:
i. Dr. Harris Shah Abd. Hamid, Senior Lecturer (UM) namely Self-Development, Self-Enhancement,
ii. Dr. Abdul Latif Abdul Razak, Lecturer (IIUM) Emotional Well-Being and Sharing Moment.  For
iii. Br. Ahmad Fudail, Perdana University this time programme, CCSC brought the issue of
iv. Farra Adeeba Mohamed Ashraf, TV personality & Human Activist “makcik bawang” which is widely spread over the
v. Ust. Ahmad Fauzan Yahaya, Director (Darul Aal Alkhaadem) social media.  The terms of “Makcik Bawang” is
described in the social media as the behavior of

individual who like to share or post personal
matters of others or even their personal matters
which opens to criticism by society.  Thus, in this

programme, CCSC highlighted some basic
understanding regarding the issues from the
aspect of psychology mental health and skills.

 The programme was conducted in two
consecutive nights with different sub themes i.e.
The Psychology of “Makcik Bawang (Night 1) and
“Makcik Bawang” Challenge Accepted (Night 2)."

COUNSELING RELATED PROGRAMMES

Collaboration Programme

A strategic collaboration between Baitulmal Leadership Programme for Excellent Baitulmal
Majlis Agama Islam Wilayah Persekutuan (MAIWP) Scholarship Recipients Club (BEST)
(MAIWP) and CCSC to provide a good
platform for excellent sponsored students
from Baitulmal MAIWP to learn and
experience hands-on knowledge on

becoming a great leader. It was a three-day
program whereby all participants were
formed in a group and required to
participate actively through structured
games and interactive activities as to

develop positive leadership characteristic
and to boost up their self-confidence.  

Date : 3rd – 5th August 2018
Venue : Lembah Azwen Resort, Hulu Langat, Selangor

Speaker/: Counselors, Officers and Administrative
Staff Facilitator

CAREER RELATED PROGRAMME

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"Employability Related Programme (ERP) provides a platform for students and industries in building engagement
among them.  Industries need to brand themselves in campus as a chosen employer while students need to

market themselves as potential employees.  Several ERP were successfully conducted from April 2018 until June
2018 as to provide platform for industries to promote their branding to students while students can take this
opportunity to market themselves to industries."

1. Career Talk and On Campus
Job Interview : Shell

Date : 6th April 2018
Time : 9.30am – 12.00noon
Venue :
 i. ADM LR 4, IRK (Career Talk)
ii. CCSC (Interview)
Speaker: HR Team of Shell

2. Career Talk with MAERSK
"Job Placement and Internship"

Date : 6th April 2018
Time : 10.00am – 12.00noon
Venue : Ibnu Taymiyyah, KENMS
Speaker: Madam Siti Hasmah Abdul Ghani, General Manager

Operation, MAERSK

3. Job Hunting Strategy with KAED

Date : 18th April 2018
Time : 10.00am – 12noon
Venue : KAED Auditorium
Speaker: Br. Mohd Norhafifi Zolkiaply, CCSC

4. Maybank Go Ahead Challenge (MGAC) 2018

"The MGAC is an annual competition organized by Date : 4th May 2018
Maybank to test students’ competencies including Time : 9.00am – 6.00pm
strategy, behaviour and general knowledge. The Venue : LT1 and classrooms, KENMS and LT A, AIKOL
competition was conducted at selected public and Judges : Maybank Team 

private higher learning institutions. This event is a

platform for Maybank to recruit talented fresh graduates

to be part of the Maybank family as well as to be their

future leaders.  For the campus level held on 4th May

2018, ten (10) out of eleven (11) winners won by our

students. They will compete in the National Level held in

July 2018." 

Congratulations to the winners!  
1. AzlinShahirah Binti Musa, Economics (IIUM)
2. Hamzah, Management (IIUM)
3. Nur Nabilah binti Hamid, Accounting (IIUM)
4. Dharamraj A/L Suresh Kumar, Petroleum Engineering
(UTP)
5. Aisyah Syahira, Economics (IIUM)
6. Manasir Jisam, Engineering (IIUM)
7. Shitab Dalyan Akash, Economics (IIUM)
8. Abdulla Muhzoom Majid,Law (IIUM)
9. Muhammad Fiqri bin Mohd Shuib, Economics (IIUM)
10. Muhammad Zafran Chai, Computer Science (IIUM)
11. Mohamed Rifky Salahudeen, Engineering (IIUM)

5. KICT Final Year Project Showcase

"The programme provides a platform to build engagement between students and industries. Final year Project
(FYP) is one of the compulsory courses in KICT for 4th year IT and CS students. Students are required to apply all
the skills and knowledge they gained during their study. As for this programme, students will have a chance to
market themselves to the industries by presenting their final year project and evaluated by selected industries. A
total of 10 group of students from IT and 10 group of students from CS presented their projects in front of the
external judges."

Date : 14th May 2018
Time : 8.00am – 1.00pm
Venue : Multipurpose Hall, KICT
Visitor : Petronas ICT Sdn. Bhd.
External Judges:  
i. Ethis Ventures Sdn. Bhd
ii. Maybank
iii. DXC Technology
iv. UTM
v. UMP

6. Career Boot Camp Graduate Employability Training : A Passport to Success

Date : 13th April 2018
Time : 9.00am – 5.00pm
Venue : Multipurpose Room, IIUM Library
Speaker: Mr Woon, Matrix Paradigm

"CCSC has collaborated with Matrix Paradigm to conduct a two-
day workshop as to prepare the graduating students for the
workforce through a series of intensive, fun and invaluable
workshops. Matrix Paradigm is a management consulting firm
focused on building high-performing leaders, teams and
organizations for long term sustainable success. The students
were required to take DISC personality test to qualify them to be
selected in Graduate Employability Training (GET).  The test is
important as to ensure the talents are fit to be in the industry.
 The participants were exposed to the communication and
presentation skills as well as to improve their job interview
skills."

7. Graduate Employability and Marketability (GEM) Jobsmalaysia & IIUM 2018

GEM is a pilot project initiated by Jobsmalaysia. In this
project, each student is assigned to a mentor who will
consistently guide them for 3 months.  Students who
have participated in this project are expected to be
100% employed. It is a great honor for CCSC to be
selected by Jobsmalaysia as an event partner for this
project. The event was successfully conducted from 9th
– 10th July 2018 with its main objective is to empower
and produce marketable graduates. Alhamdulillah, 69 of
our graduates have been selected to participate in the
project.  

CAREER RELATED PROGRAMME

Career Booster

"The programme is organized to help students to
boost up their career aspiration by focusing on
enhancing generic skills and competencies.  This

programme aimed to assist students to improve self-
confidence and expose them to the skills required in

the field of employment. "  

1. Communication in Recruitment Process

Date : 18th April 2018
Time : 2.30pm – 5.00pm
Venue : Main Auditorium, KAED
Speaker : Br. Saiful Redza Mohamed, CCSC

2. Maximize Your Job Search,
Make Your Resume Count

Date : 16th May 2018
Time : 10.30am – 12.30pm
Venue : Main Auditorium, KAED
Speaker : Mr. Khairi, Iconix Talents Network

CAREER RELATED PROGRAMME

On Campus Interview

"On Campus Interview Programme invites employers to campus to interview graduating students or fresh graduates
for full time job opportunities. Positions are offered in various fields such as accounting, economics, ICT,
engineering, Islamic Revealed Knowledge, human sciences, architecture, Law etc. This programme allows the
students to have valuable experience in dealing with interview session."

1. Interview Affairs – Collaborated with Iconix Talents Network

Date : 20th April 2018
Time : 9.30am – 5.00pm
Venue : KICT
Interviewers: Human Resource Team from
i. Maybank
ii. Top Glove
iii. Slumberger
iv. Burger King
v. PRU BSN
vi. 99Speedmart.

2. Strand Aerospace Malaysia Sdn. Bhd

Date : 23rd May 2018
Time : 10.00am – 1.00pm
Venue : Conference Room B, KOE
Interviewers:
i. Abang Yusof Ehsan Manager
ii. Rayyen Jay Chinniah Senior Engineer
     Strand Aerospace Malaysia Sdn. Bhd.

3. Interview Affairs

Date : 25th July 2018
Time : 9.30am – 3.00pm

Venue : CCSC
Interviewers: i. Accenture
                       ii. SELLBYTEL
                       iii. DXC Technology

4. Strand Aerospace Malaysia Sdn. Bhd 5. Prestariang

Date : 1st August 2018 Date : 28th August 2018
Time : 10.00am – 1.00pm Time : 9.30am – 5.00pm
Venue : CCSC Venue : CCSC
Interviewers: HR Team from Strand Aerospace Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. Interviewers: HR Team from Prestariang

CAREER RELATED PROGRAMME

Career Visit "Experience the Reality"

1. General System Engineering Sdn. Bhd.

"The Career Visit is intended to support the holistic students’ development through career exposure that could
facilitate future employment of IIUM graduates.  The programme aims to offer new perspectives about current job
market, current technologies and finally to inspire students to take initiative in job hunting strategies that will
minimize their dilemmas when making career decision."

Date : 27th April 2018
Time : 8.00am – 12.00noon
Venue : Kota Kemuning Shah Alam, Selangor
Speaker: Mr. Alfred Chong, General System Engineering Sdn. Bhd.

2. Digi Telecommunications

Date : 11th June 2018
Time : 8.00am – 12.00noon
Venue : Digi, Head Office, Shah Alam
Speaker: Nur Azrin Afiqah Binti Badri, Digi Telecommunications

CAREER RELATED PROGRAMME

Engagement with Industries

1. Microsoft  Malaysia

Date : 18th April 2018
Time : 10.00am – 12.00noon
Venue : Microsoft Malaysia Cyberjaya
Speaker: Jasmine Begum, Director of Legal and Corporate Governance 

2. Launching of EY Young Tax Professional 2018

Date : 18th April 2018
Time : 10.00am – 1.00pm
Venue : Menara Millennium, Pusat Bandar Damansara
Speaker: Amarjeet Singh, Malaysia Tax Leader of EY 

3. Pasona HR Malaysia

Date : 5th June 2018
Time : 10.00am – 12.00noon
Venue : Menara Hap Seng 2,

 Plaza Hap Seng
Speaker: Ms Toyonishi Nao,

Pasona HR Malaysia

4. Jobstreet.com Malaysia

Date : 6th June 2018
Time : 10.00am – 12.00noon
Venue : Menara AIA Cap Square
Jalan Munshi Abdullah, WPKL

Speaker: Mr Edmund,
 Jobstreet.com Malaysia

CAREER RELATED PROGRAMME

Teh Tarik Session

1. Teh Tarik Session with SME Bank

"Teh Tarik Session is a platform for CCSC to establish positive networking between University and
industries which eventually develop new possibilities that could benefit IIUM graduate employability."

Date : 13th April 2018
Topic : Teh Tarik Session with SME Bank

Time : 10.00am – 12.00 noon
Venue : Ibnu Taymiyyah, KENMS
Speaker: Syed Md Fithree, SME Bank

OTHER PROGRAMME

Counseling & Career Awareness Campaign

CARES 2018

"Counseling and Career Awareness Campaign (CARES)
is consistently organized so that the students are aware
of the existence of the Centre and the services provided
for them. This programme is not only aims to increase
the awareness within the IIUM Community, but also to
reduce the gap between the Centre and the IIUM
Community especially among students. Among the
activities conducted were personality and career tests,
resume checking and some fun activities which related
to counseling and career matters."

Date : 10th April 2018 and 11th April 2018
Time : 10.30am – 2.30pm
Venue : Hallway between E1 and E2 Building, KOE and
Business Compound, KENMS
Speaker : All staff of CCSC

OUR SUCCESS STORIES!

1. Innovate Malaysia Design Competition
2018  (IMDC 2018) : Google Track

Hearties congratulations to our students Br.
Muhammad Fahreza Alghifari (KOE) and Br.
Muhammad Wildan Zulfikar (KICT) on their
tremendous achievement for winning the 1st
runner up in the Innovate Malaysia Design
Competition 2018 (IMDC 2018) held on 9th July

2018 at Magic, Cyberjaya.  

IMDC is the largest engineering design competition in Malaysia.  The competition is open to
all third year and final year degree from engineering, computer science, IT and

science/mathematics students.  The competition was organized by Dreamcatcher Consulting
Sdn. Bhd. which gathered world-renowned companies such as Google, Intel, Keysight,

MathWorks, Microsoft, SAS, SilTerra, and SOLIDWORKS to provide technological challenges
as well as companies such as Celcom, Cyberview, Daikin, Exabytes, Telekom Malaysia and
WCS Malaysia and to offer design challenges. Br. Fahreza and Br. Wildan had been shortlisted

among 39 finalists with more than 900 contestants participated in this competition.

Their amazing project entitled “Application of Speech Emotion Recognition using Google
Sensorflow Deep Neural Network for Suicide Prevention Hotlines” (EMOS) also had been
awarded as “Best Project of the Region” (with a status of Excellent Award).  Technically EMOS
was supervised by Prof. Dr. Teddy Surya Gunawan (KOE) while psychological contents and

logistic were supported by Counseling and Career Services Centre (CCSC).  

OUR SUCCESS STORIES!

2. Maybank Go Ahead Challenge (MGAC) 2018 :
Global Final

We have made it! Our very own student, Br. Mohammad Huzaifa Fazal from Kulliyyah of
Engineering won 2nd Runner Up in the Maybank Go Ahead Challenge 2018 (MGAC 2018) for
Global Level. He was assigned in a team which consists of 5 members from India, Malaysia,
Indonesia and UK to complete the task.  His team did very well in accomplishing the task.
Before competing in the Global Level, Br. Huzaifa won at the Campus Level and National Level.

The MGAC is an annual competition organized by
Maybank to test students’ competencies including
strategy, behaviour and general knowledge. The
students were required to compete in several
challenging activities such as debates,
presentations, simulations, games and physical
challenges. The competition was conducted at three
levels i.e. Campus Level held on 4th May 2018,
National Level held from 4th – 5th July 2018 and
Global Level held from 7th – 13th August 2018.  For
the Global Level, finalists came from 12 different
countries such as Malaysia, Indonesia, Cambodia,
Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Myanmar, India,
Bangladesh, Pakistan, Hong Kong and UK. This event
is a platform for Maybank to recruit talented fresh
graduates to be part of the Maybank family as well
as to be their future leaders.  

OUR NEWSLETTER TEAM OUR SOCIAL MEDIA

CONCEPT & CONTENT TEAM Counseling & Career Services Centre
IIUM Career Services
Sis. Raja Noor Ashikin Raja Alias @ccsciium
Sis. Nur Masturah Mohamad Arif @iiumcareer

DESIGN & LAYOUT TEAM http://www.iium.edu.my/centre/
counselling-career-services-centre
Sis. Noorasyikin Asrorie
Sis. Aizadatuladawiah Che Ismail

PHOTOGRAP HERS TEAM
Sis. Noor Esmi Mohammed Salleh

Bro. Mohd Sufian Saperan
Bro.Muhammad Shafiq Ramdhan Fadzlee

Sis. Siti Khadijah Daud

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