A collaboration to enrich the skills of freshly employed graduates has been inked between Talent Corporation Malaysia Berhad (TalentCorp) and the Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC).
The Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) enables 300 graduates to undergo an eight-month upskilling programme under the Job Camp - Graduate Employability Management Scheme (JC-GEMS). It was signed by MDeC chief executive officer Datuk Badlisham Ghazali and TalentCorp chief executive officer Johan Mahmood Merican.
Under the JC-GEMS, selected Malaysian graduates will undergo a two-month classroom learning by MDeC-authorised training providers, followed by on-the-job experience with leading employers to equip them with the relevant soft and technical skills to help them advance in the ICT industry.
This marks the first time that MDeC and TalentCorp are collaborating to enhance the supply of highly-skilled talent for Malaysia's ICT industry. Prior to this, Job Camp was solely managed by MDeC.
"The JC-GEMS scheme enables us to optimise our young Malaysian talents and equip them with the right skills to take advantage of the many emerging opportunities in ICT," said TalentCorp CEO Johan Mahmood Merican.
He added that this partnership with MDeC is aligned to TalentCorp's mandate to facilitate public and private sector collaborative efforts in creating, motivating and retaining a skilled workforce for the Economic Transformation Plan (ETP).
MDeC CEO Datuk Badlisham Ghazali said: "MDeC has over the years strategised and formulated various programmes aimed to meet the demand of the current and future workforce requirement of the local ICT industry. Our partnership with TalentCorp on the JC-GEMS scheme is in line with the MSC Malaysia initiatives for fresh graduates and undergraduates to be upskilled and equipped with the industry-relevant skills and knowledge, whilst addressing the ICT industry's talent needs".
TalentCorp took over GEMS from Khazanah Nasional Berhad in December 2012. It aims to take the scheme to the next level by increasing the employability of graduates nationwide through "sector-focused" training. In 2013, TalentCorp aimed to train 6,000 graduates under various graduate employability programmes.
ICT-based companies interested in applying to take part in the JC-GEMS programme can contact the MSC Malaysia Client Contact Centre (CliC) at 03-83153000 or toll free line no: 1-800-88-8338.
