CCSC IN ACTION! ISSUE NO 3 2019

Issue No. 3/2019

CCSC IN ACTION!

Brought to you by Counseling and Career Services Centre

ccsc's best moments 2019

@ccsciium Counseling and Career Services Centre http://www.iium.edu.my/centre/
@iiumcareer IIUM Career Services counseling-career-services-centre

PERSONAL GROWTH GROUP

BFF GOAL! TREND OR SOCIAL
SUPPORT

18th September 2019 This programme focuses on the overall
Speaker: Miss Pamilia A/P Lourdunathan, development of IIUM Community with its
objectives to educate students on optimism,
Psychology Dept., IIUM positivity, self-compassion and the importance
of goal setting, dreams and forward thinking
as well as to provide a safe space for students
to express their concerns about their future
planning.

MANAGING STRESS THROUGH STOP BODY SHAMING! EVERY SHAPE
GOOD NUTRITION AND EXERCISE IS BEAUTIFUL

This program highlighted the importance of This program highlighted the importance of
taking good nutrition as well as to give light on taking good nutrition as well as to give light on
the correlation between good nutrition and the correlation between good nutrition and
psychological status. psychological status.

9th October 2019 9th December 2019
Speaker : Assoc. Prof. Dr. Zulkifli Speaker : Ms. Amirah Hazwani Bakri,

Hj. Abd. Kadir, Social Media Influencer
Lecturer, Faculty of Sport Science

and Recreation, UiTM

COUNSELING RELATED PROGRAMMES

MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCATOR
WORKSHOP FOR SRC AND MRC

The workshop was organized as to empower
the role of student leaders as mental health
advocators for IIUM with its objectives to:

i. equip the participants with necessity skills
involved when dealing with mental health
issues

ii. educate the participants on the importance
of zero stigma society

iii. empower the role of CCSC in IIUM 28th – 29th September 2019
Speakers :
iv. strengthen the strategic relationship
between CCSC and student bodies Sr. Nur Masturah Mohamad Arif, CCSC IIUM
Sr. Khairiah Abdul Razak,
CCSC IIUM

WELCOMING NEW DETOX STRESS PROGRAMME :
STUDENTS THROUGH EXPRESSIVE ARTS

Welcoming New Students is an initiative (GROUP COUNSELING)
programme organized by Residential Counseling
Unit of CCSC to assist the Centre in distributing Another new initiative programme introduced by
Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS21) CCSC to empower the use of expressive art
to new students at each mahallah. The main techniques in helping IIUM community to release
objectives to conduct this programme were to their stress and improve their quality of life.
give awareness of mental health as well as Among the elements of therapy provided in this
services rendered by CCSC. programme are drawing/doodling therapy,
creative arts therapy (i.e.Origami), Movement and
3rd September – 30th relaxation therapy, play therapy (i.e. clay, lego,
September 2019 puppet, etc) and music/lyric therapy. The IIUM
community are welcome to use the materials with
Mahallah Involved : Maryam, Ali, minimal assistance from CCSC staff/counselor.
Nusaibah, Hafsa, Sumayyah, Asma,

Halimatus Saadiah, Uthman and
Safiyyah

17th September – 20th December 2019
Facilitator: Sr. Nur Masturah Mohamad

Arif, CCSC IIUM
Venue : Expressive Art Room, CCSC

COUNSELING RELATED PROGRAMMES

LET'S TALK SERIES PROGRAMME

Let’s Talk series programme is 6th December 2019
introduced to encourage Speaker: Sr. Nur Masturah
students to express themselves Mohamad Arif, CCSC IIUM
without fear of negative Topic: Reason to Keep Forward
remarks as well as encourage
20th September 2019 them to share their concerns
Speaker: Sr. Nur Masturah and personal issues in a safe
Mohamad Arif, CCSC IIUM place.  It is an effort made by
Topic: You are not Alone CCSC to reduce the stigma on
Mental Health in Malaysia.

27th September 2019 18th October 2019 15th November 2019
Speaker: Sr. Nur Masturah Speaker: Sr. Nur Masturah Speaker: Sr. Nur Masturah
Mohamad Arif, CCSC IIUM Mohamad Arif, CCSC IIUM Mohamad Arif, CCSC IIUM
Topic: My Biggest Support Topic: The Healing Journey
Topic: My Darkest Side

EMOTIONAL WELL BEING CLINICAL COUNSELING
PROGRAMME (EWB) INTERVENTION PROGRAMME (CIP):

This programme is specifically designed to #CIRCLE2SUPPORTGROUP
guide and help students to have a healthy
emotional and mental state. Counseling Intervention Programme is a group
therapy which involves comprehensive
2nd October 2019 psychological and counseling treatment. This
Speaker: Dr. Aniah Azmi, Motivator, NLP programme focuses on providing a safe space for
people who are battling for mental illness
Practitioner and Ophthalmologist particularly on depression. Given importance to
Topic: My Biggest Support this issue, this programme is purposely designed to
help student to have a better well-being and life
with its main objectives to administer scientific,
psychological test in identifying the level of
participants’ problems severity related to sleep
disturbances as well as to provide proper
interventions based on the result of the test.

15th November 2019- 20 December 2019
Facilitator: Sr. Khairiah Abdul Razak, CCSC IIUM

COUNSELING RELATED PROGRAMMES

JOB HUNTING CAMPUS
PROGRAMME RECRUITMENT

The programme designed as to equip TheCampus Recruitment invites employers to
themselves with job hunting strategies campus to interview graduating students or
particularly on resume writing as the resume fresh graduates for full time job opportunities
would be the first impression scanned by the or special upskilling programmes. Positions
potential employers. are offered in various fields such as
Accounting, Economics, ICT, Engineering,
8th October 2019 Islamic Revealed Knowledge, Human Sciences,
Speaker: Tan Cheong Motor Sdn Bhd Architecture, Law etc. The graduating
students may have valuable experience in
Topic: Resume and Interview Tips dealing with interviewers during the interview
session.

18th October 2019 KPMG
Speaker: Human Resource Executive, CIMB 19th November 2019
Topic: Impressive Resume and Mock Interview

CAREER GROUP COUNSELING :
CAREER DECISION MAKING GROUP (CDMG)

This programme is specifically designed to guide andCareer group counseling programme is
conducted to focus on the career decision making among students who are still unsure about their
future career with its main objectives to:
 
i.      identify their potentials and whether they are able to meet the job requirements (skills)
ii.    assist students to have a better understanding of career options, thus enabling them to make
better decisions about their future careers
iii.  provide students with an opportunity to experience the real setting of their preferred working
place
 

Date         :      24th September – 31st December 2019
Time         :      1.00 pm – 2.00 pm / 5.00 pm – 7.00 pm
Venue      :      CCSC
Facilitators:  i. Br. Saiful Redza Mohamed, CCSC IIUM

ii.  Br. Mohd Norhafifi Zolkiaply, CCSC IIUM
iii.  Sr. Nor Adilah Mohd Nor, CCSC IIUM

CAREER RELATED PROGRAMMES

GRADUATE EMPLOYABILITY & MARKETABILITY
(GEM) JOBSMALAYSIA AND IIUM 2019

A collaboration programme between Jobsmalaysia
and CCSC as to empower IIUM graduates’ job hunting
strategies that cover resume writing, grooming and
interview skills as well as to share latest job
opportunities, management trainee programmes and
alternatives to be employed effectively.  In this
project, each student will be assigned to a mentor
who will consistently guide them, and the target is
100% employed.

Date      :     5th – 6th October 2019            
Time     :     9.00am – 5.00pm
Venue  :     LT1, KENMS
Speakers : i.   Jobsmalaysia

ii.  Br. Saiful Redza Mohamed, 
Senior Counselor, CCSC IIUM

CAREER VISIT: TEH TARIK SESSION : EXPLORE,
EXPERIENCE THE REALITY ENGAGE AND EXCEL

A programme is specifically designed to A platform to establish positive networking
support the holistic students’ development between IIUM and industries which eventually
through career exposure that could facilitate develop new possibilities that could benefit IIUM
future employment of IIUM graduates. graduate employability.

InvestKL Experian Malaysia Sdn. Bhd.
13th November 2019 17th September 2019
Speaker: Representative from InvestKL
Speaker: Mr. Azra Rizal Noor Azman,
APAC Experian Malaysia Sdn. Bhd.

Talentbank Zurich Takaful
15th November 2019 13th December 2019
Speaker: Representative frim Talentbank Speaker: Mr. Muhammad Muslim,
Ms. Aznie Afiza Mohammad Shafian

CAREER RELATED PROGRAMMES

FLY HIGH 7.0

Fly High programme is a platform for students to
prepare themselves before hunting for their ideal
career in competitive job market.    The programme
has been conducted since 2016 which the event
specifically targeted IIUM graduating students from all
courses.    The future graduates received various
inputs from prominent companies, recruiters,
government and related agencies as they shared
latest job opportunities, management trainee
programmes and alternatives to be employed.

Date    :   3rd – 6th December 2019
Time    :   8.30 am – 5.00 pm
Venue  :   Main Auditorium

CAREER BOOSTER

The programme is organized to help students to boost up their career aspiration as well as to
improve their self-confidence by focusing on enhancing generic skills and competencies required
in the field of employment.

25th September 2019 27th November 2019
Speaker: Mr. Nafis Nazri, Jobtiviti Sdn. Bhd. Speaker: Mr. Mohd Nizam Ahamad,

Topic: Adore My Speech: Group HRM Petronas
Business Presentation Skills Topic: Go Beyond

CAREER RELATED PROGRAMMES

IIUM CAREER FAIR 2019

Career Fair has become an important event for Partners & Exhibitors
the University as it would be a platform for
students to engage with potential companies
who basically provide job opportunities,
internship experiences and information job
hunting related strategies. As for this year, CCSC
managed to bring 48 companies to participate in
this event while Protégé, MDEC and KTMB
managed to be our partners for this event.
 

Date    :    15th – 16th October 2019
Time    :     9.00 am – 5.00 pm
Venue  :     ICC, IIUM

CAREER RELATED PROGRAMMES

APPRECIATION NIGHT FOR EVENT COMMITTEE

22nd November 2019 CAREER FAIR 2019 AND FLY
Venue: Restoran Warisan, KL HIGH

CCSC’s appreciation to the committees of
Career Fair and Fly High 2019 for their
contribution towards the success of the two
major events organized by CCSC.

IIUM MUMTAZ19

Another initiative programme conducted to empower graduate employability of graduating
students by providing them with employability related soft skills such as self-branding, public
speaking, and communication skills.  At the moment, this programme is specifically focused
on IRK and BAR students.

25th September 2019
Speaker: Sr. Syukrah
Shakirah (KIRKHS)
Topic: Showcase vs Show Off

29th November 2019
Speaker: Mr. Ahmad Zaki Ahmad Rafai,

Chosen One Management
Topic: Module Formulation & Understanding

Audience

27th November 2019
Speaker: Ust. Mohd Khairil

Anwar, IJN
Topic: Daie in the Modern World

OTHER PROGRAMMES

IIUM STUDENT CAREER TEAM

IIUM Peers and IIUM Student Career Team (ISCT) are established to support counseling and
career development programmes organized by CCSC as well as services rendered by CCSC for
IIUM community.

Workshop: Showcase vs Show Off Workshop: Notes from the
23rd September 2019 Grooming Table

Speaker: Ms. Nurkhalisa Md 25th November 2019
Afendi, ASTRO Speaker: Ms. Nurmunira Alwani

Mohd Fauzi, Freelancer

Retreat 2.0
14th-15th September 2019
Facilitator: Mohd Norhafifi

Zolkiaply, CCSC IIUM

IIUM PEERS

Educational Visit CSR 1
18th October 2019 22nd November 2019
Venue: National Autism Society Venue: Persatuan Dyslexia,
of Malaysia (NASOM) Gombak
Ampang

CSR 2 Retreat 2
22nd November 2019 7th-8th December 2019
Venue: Kemensah Waterfall, Venue: PD Santuary Training

Selangor Centre

CCSC'S SUPPORT GROUP

MENTAL HEALTH MONTH PROGRAMME: "THE END
IS THE NEW BEGINNING"

Mental illness is a disorder that affect cognitive functioning of human being and may cause
changes to the individual process of thinking and behaving. It becomes worst when the affected
person started to have suicidal ideation, intention and attempt.  They also tend to do self-harm as
the method of coping.  The awareness about mental health among the society in Malaysia still
need to be improved.  Therefore, it is very important for mental health practitioner and educator
to take action in creating and inculcating the awareness among the society as to have physically
and mentally healthy community. In line with the concern of creating the healthy community,
CCSC had successfully conducted the Mental Health Month Programme 2019 from 16th
September 2019 until 24th October 2019.  Several programs were conducted during the Mental
Health Month Program as follows:

i.  Virtual Campaign: 16th September – 24th October 2019
ii.  Flashmob
iii.   Infographic Competition: 16th September – 20th October 2019
iv.   Video Competition: 16th September – 20th October 2019
v.    Pound : Mind and Body Fit: 21st October 2019
vi.   Psychotherapy Technique: Creative Therapy and Mental Health: 23rd October 2019

(one day seminar)
vii.  Self-Love, a Coping Strategy to Mood Disturbance (Forum) : 23rd October 2019

Virtual Campaign Mental Health Month Corner

Mind and Body Fit Forum
Trainer: Ms. Anis Salwati Hamidon Panelists:
i. Dr.AbdulLatifAbdulRazak,LecturerofIIUM
ii. MdmAnitaAbuBakar,PresidentofMIASA
iii.Br.AimanAzlan,YouthMentor

Closing Ceremony

Seminar
Speaker: Mdm. Jamaida Jamaludin,

Registered Counselor

CCSC'S  SPECIAL PROJECT 2019-2020

FACILITATING TRAINING FOR
MENTOR MENTEE 'KAMI ANAK DUNIA' IN COLLABORATION WITH

CENSERVE

Mentor Mentee Project Kami Anak Dunia is one of the flagship projects under CENSERVE which
include mentoring and facilitating skills programmes among the selected clubs. This programme
focused on offering mentoring relationship skills for the facilitators and understanding personal
growth process of their mentee that come from primary school students in Gombak area. Thus,
CCSC has been invited to collaborate with CENSERVE to conduct TOT for clubs’ facilitators under
CENSERVE as to equip them with facilitating and mentoring skills as well as offering continual
support may include emotional, psychological and academic related aspects.

Series 1-2 Series 3-5
28th November 2019 5th December 2019
Speaker: Sr. Nur Syuhada Mohd Munir, CCSC IIUM Speaker: Sr. Nur Syuhada Mohd Munir, CCSC IIUM

SOP ON MENTAL HEALTH CASES
(IN COLLABORATION WITH KCDIO)

CCSC is in the final stage of developing SOP on Mental Health Cases as a guideline to handle
mental health cases in IIUM. This SOP will be used by the related K/C/D/I/Os. The SOP is
expected to be launched officially and implemented in February 2020.

CCSC'S  SPECIAL PROJECT 2019-2020

GLOBAL JOB MARKET

CCSC has taken a next step to venture global job markets which could open more
opportunities to support future employment of our students. CCSC is currently
developing strategic partnership with international recruiters; Pasona Group Malaysia,
Amanie Group and InvestKL Corporation to market our students to Japan, Middle East
and Europe. A series of discussions with these industries/companies were held as
follows:

Discussion with InvestKL
5th September 2019

Discussion with PASONA
6th September 2019

CCSC'S  SPECIAL PROJECT 2019-2020

ACADEMIC DISCOURSE ON IIUM SEJAHTERA PROFILING AND MENTAL
HEALTH ISSUES WITH FACULTY OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND HUMAN

DEVELOPMENT, UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SARAWAK (UNIMAS)

This programme is one of the methods to expand the knowledge in related fields and also
strength the relationship between two universities.
On the 16th December, CCSC had a discussion with Dr. Rizal bin Abu Bakar, Lecturer, Faculty of
Cognitive Sciences and Human Development, UNIMAS to share expert opinions on the innovation
process of profiling from the existed profiling. The review was presented to CCSC team for further
improvement on innovation project year 2020. Some of the suggestions are as follow:

Innovate new Sejahtera profiling that will become the signature of IIUM.
The innovated version of Sejahtera Profiling must be designed to meet the local standard for it
to be administered nationwide.

16th December 2019
Venue: UNIMAS, Sarawak

Meanwhile on 17th December, CCSC visited Jabatan Agama Islam Sarawak (JAIS) to discuss on the
topic of mental health from Islamic Perspective and to have some insight about the cases being
handled at JAIS. It was a fruitful discussion that resulted in several outcomes:

Mental Health issues must not be totally separated with Islamic teaching.
The awareness of maintaining positive well-being must be included in da’wah.
Psychological well-being can be included in Pre-marital workshop to educate young married
couples on the importance of mental health.

17th December 2019
Venue: JAIS, Sarawak

CCSC'S  SPECIAL PROJECT 2019-2020

TA'ARUF WEEK SEMESTER 1 2019/2020

The programme was organized by Student Affairs and Development Division (STADD).
CCSC was invited to participate in the exhibition to promote the office of CCSC and
services provided by CCSC to new intake students.

6th September 2019
Venue: ICC

STUDENT FEST 2019

CCSC had been given an opportunity to open booth during Students Fest 2019 which
was successfully held from 7th October – 11th October 2019. Among activities
conducted at the booth were personality tests, career tests and art therapy activities. 
The CCSC’s support group i.e. the members of IIUM Peers had assisted CCSC to
promote the services and upcoming events of CCSC to the IIUM community.  CCSC won
the best booth under office category during the event.

7th - 11th October 2019
Venue: ICC

CCSC'S PARTICIPATION IN BOOTH EXHIBITION 2019

OUR SUCCESS STORIES!

It is the effort of all staff of CCSC for their hard work and team spirit in winning the awards
and certification. This great victory also would be a starting point for us to move forward to
uplift IIUM for more tremendous achievements in 2020.

i. Top 3 Finalists of Career Centre of the Year (Public University)

7th November 2019
Venue: W Hotel, KL

CCSC had been nominated as one of the top 3 finalists for the Best Career Centre of the
Year 2019 (Public University) in the Malaysia’s 100 Leading Graduate Employers Award
(M100 Awards).  This event is annually organized by GTI Media as to recognize the most
outstanding graduate recruiters in the country across various sectors.

ii. Gold Certification (Penarafan Emas) from Majlis Kaunseling dan
Kerjaya Universiti-Universiti Malaysia (MAKUMA) for organizing
Mental Health Month Programme 2019

9th November 2019
Venue: UiTM Shah Alam

OUR SUCCESS STORIES!

iii. 1st Runner Up of Intervarsity Young Motivator Competition 2019

10th November 2019
Venue: UiTM, Shah Alam
Accompany Officer: Sr. Khairiah
Abdul Razak, CCSC IIUM

Intervarsity Young Motivator Competition (I-MAC) is an annual programme organized by
Majlis Kaunseling & Kerjaya Universiti-Universiti Malaysia (MAKUMA). Each University is
welcomed to send two or three contestants. For year 2019, Universiti Teknologi Mara
(UiTM) was selected to be the host for this competition. IIUM was presented by three (3)
talented motivators who won the competition at the University Level respectively (Final
competition held on 12th October 2019).
i.    Br. Muhammad Ameruddin Bin Mohd Roslin, KOED (Champion)
ii.  Br. Syed Ibrahim Bin Syed Ishak, IRKHS (1st Runner Up)
iii.    Br. Mohammad Amirul Aiman Bin Pacharin, IRKHS (2nd Runner Up)
 
Overall Result for National Level:
i.      Br. Muhammad Ameruddin Bin Mohd Roslin, KOED (1st Runner up)
ii.     Br. Syed Ibrahim Bin Syed Ishak, IRKHS (4th place)
iii.    Br. Mohammad Amirul Aiman Bin Pacharin, IRKHS (semi-final)

TA'ARUF WEEK SEMESTER 1 2019/2020

CCSC had been given an opportunity to give briefing to new intake students on the
services and programme/activities conducted by CCSC as well as to administer the IIUM
Sejahtera Profiling.

3rd September 2019
Venue: ICC

BEACH CLEAN-UP PROGRAMME AT PANTAI CERMIN,
PORT DICKSON

One of the ODRSDCE’s Strategic Iniatiative i.e. the involvement of IIUM staff in the
community programme. Its main objectives were to respond the ODRSDCE’s strategic
initiative, requiring the involvement of IIUM staff in the community programme,
developing close relationship among CCSC staff as well as to create awareness among
staff in appreciating the nature and supporting the Sustainable Development Goals
(SDG).

31st October 2019
Venue: Pantai Cermin, PD

CCSC'S STAFF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

STAFF FAREWELL

Special appreciation to our colleagues Br. Kamaruddin Abdul Hamid   and Sr. Raja Noor
Ashikin Raja Alias. Br. Kamaruddin Abdul Hamid has been transferred to Student Affairs and
Development Division (STADD)  while Sr. Raja Noor Ashikin Raja Alias has been transferred
to Kulliyyah of Languages and Management (KLM). All the best in their future endeavors.

HOW TO MAKE APPOINTMENT WITH
COUNSELORS?

+603 6421 4409
Level 2, Muhammad Abdul Rauf
Building

OUR NEWSLETTER TEAM

Concept/Content Advisor Design/Layout
Sr. Siti Khadijah Daud
Sr. Raja Noor Ashikin Madam Noraini Sr. Noorasyikin Asrorie
Raja Alias Ahmad

Special appreciation to staff of CCSC for contributing ideas, comments and photos for
this newsletter

Sr. Nur Masturah Mohamad Arif Sr. Noor Esmi Mohamed Salleh

Sr. Aizadatuladawiah Che Ismail

Br. Mohd Sufian Saperan Br. Muhammad Shafiq Ramdhan
Fadzlee