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Career Talk24 & 25 August 2013

MRSM Taiping, Perak

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• AGENDA ANSARA: Introduction MPE How to write your Resume: A guideline Career & Motivation Talk by Azdi Abas, Owner of

Octagon Petroleum Sdn Bhd

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• ANSARA Persatuan Bekas Pelajar MRSM Malaysia

(ANSARA). Founded in 1993. Lead by YBhg Dato' Mukhriz Tun Mahathir. They

are known as ANSARA Pusat ANSARA Cawangan Taiping (ACT) is under

ANSARA Pusat. We are called chapters. 14 chapters under ANSARA. Open to all ex-MRSM members. To register, visit http://www.ansara.org.my

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• ANSARA CAWANGAN TAIPING New Committee: 17 August 2013 President: Ihsan Husainy Hasbullah (1995) Vice President: Afendi Deniel (1987) Secretary: Siti Khadijah Tamrin (1989) Treasurer: Roslan A’alaf (1987) Committee Members

Suraya Ali (1995) Aizal (1987) Syahir (2003) Nazlee (1986)

Auditors Wan Norhishamuddin (1988) Jofa Helmi (1987)

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• MPE MPE stands for Muslim Professional Entrepreneur Seek knowledge as a Muslim (compulsory through

talks, reading books, video, formal & informal learning)

Seek knowledge as Professional (accountant, IT, design, art, engineering, PR, architect, consulting, etc.)

Seek knowledge entrepreneur (through observation, formal & informal learning, reading)

Become a Muslim like the teaching of Muhammad s.a.w. Professional like Al-Khawarizmi, Ibnu Sina, Abu Musa Jabir Ibn Hayyan. Entreprenuer like our prophet Muhammad s.a.w, Abdul Rahman Auf, Abu Bakar As-Siddiq

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• HOW TO WRITE YOUR RESUME: A GUIDELINE

Personal Details Career Objective Personal Advancement Academic Achievements Co-curiculum Activities And Sports Others Referrals

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• PERSONAL DETAILS For basic personal details

Name Permanent Address Correspondent Address (If different from Permanent

Address only) Contact Number (Mobile and House phone) NRIC # D.O.B (age) Gender Nationality Email Address

The information should be short & simple Font size: can use smaller font. Min 10 Use easy to read font e.g. Times New Roman, Arial, or

Tahoma.

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• PERSONAL DETAIL - Example• No need to put Name: Ihsan Husainy• Write your name in capital letters and <bold>. • Font size; 14-18

• Use table for your personal details and make your table borderless• Maximize usage of table by filling up left and right table cells.

• Create an email with your name. E.g. Ihsan Hasbullah as ihsan.hasbullah @ gmail.com• Keep your funky email e.g. comel @ yahoo.com or hensem @ gmail.com for your personal use.

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• CAREER OBJECTIVE Summarized your plan for next few years and

what you would like to become What your plan to obtain your certificates

(diploma, degree, Masters, PhD, professional certificates) ; and

Plan after obtaining your certificates. The career objectives must parallel with your

application. i.e. if you apply for scholarship to study accountancy but your objective is to become an accountant, not something else

The information should be short and simple. Max 3 -4 lines

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• CAREER OBJECTIVE - Example

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• PERSONAL ADVANCEMENT Your Secret Weapon Get relevant articles for your research. Discuss

with friends, family members, teachers, and if possible someone who is working in the industry.

Conduct Interview with people who work in the industry.

Work (part time job) Charities

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• PERSONAL ADVANCEMENT • INTERVIEW someone working similar to your ambition• Do site visits

• Form a group (3pax)• Read 2-3 articles related to career• Study, analyze and do research on the articles• Put the article title & source (URL, book title, author)

• Use your long holiday to work• Acknowledge what you learn and experience during performing yourwork

• Do charity work

• Put in table (borderless) to keep it neat & tidy

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• ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT

• Put in table (borderless) to keep it neat & tidy

• Put the current achievement first.

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• CO-CURRICULUM & SPORTS

• Put in table (borderless) to keep it neat & tidy

• Description

• Activities / event participation / competition

• Achievement / position (if any)

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• OTHERS

• Reading should be your second nature. Writing inspirational books shows you like to read self improvement books• It’s also will improve your command of English language• Optional, if you want just put a

few examples. •Be prepared to answer if you put Manga like Naruto, Bleach, et all

• Optional, but highly recommended. • It’s shows you are spending your time wisely.

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• REFERRALS - Example

• Optional. Write it if it is a requirement. • Omit this if you could not fit this in 2-pages resume

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THANK YOU