Where you guys playing? Field or court? Futsal 5v5?

11th june sunteec

You are right. Employers look at 'the paper' AND your personality & performance. I emphasise the word "AND".

If your selling point is 1st class honours, there will always be competitors & peers who have 1st class honours just like you.

If your selling point is performance, there will always be competitors & peers who have good performance just like you.

The trick is having both a good education AND good performance. Then you're a complete package.

If you didn't do well at school... I'm sorry but to me, you just tied one hand behind your back for the rest of your professional life. You may have great performance but you will always lose to the the guy who also has great performance as well as a 1st class honours.

Of course, lots of people with a lower end education are still very successful... no doubt at all. But I'm willing to bet with you that they are very aware of their educational disadvantage and are always positioning themselves to make up for it. You won't find them simply dismissing their weaknesses by saying "it's not very important".

And if you're just starting your career, education is more important than you think. If you have 10 or 20 years of solid work experience, then you can say that you have proven yourself despite a poor education. Employers can accept that because your track record is longer and more recent than your education.

But if you're a fresh grad or have only a few years of experience, employers will think this way... this chap has 3-4 years of good experience but he messed up 10 years of education (secondary + uni). The impression will be that you're not a solid dependable person. Out of the last 14 years of your life, you've managed to screw up 70% of it. Then they will start doubting whether your 3-4 years of experience is really as strong as you made it sound in your cv and during the interview. Why? Because your allegedly good work performance is completely inconsistent and opposite of your poor performance during your education. Can a leopard change its spots? A suspicious person will choose to believe the more objective evidence (ie. your "paper") rather than what you said during your interview.

Lastly, whenever you look at the programs or brochures for professional seminars or forums, the speakers or presenters always list their educational qualifications (including the honours, distinctions and which unis their degrees came from) besides their professional experience. Why do you think they do that? If it's not important, why don't they just leave it out? It's part of their overall package. Their personal brand. You want everything in the package to look good.

yeah    .... salaries keep on increasing 

Malaysia will always be my home but I will of course support whatever's best for me, not some dubious social contract that someone's grandfather supposedly signed on my behalf.

Kiasu vs ketuanan... I'll take kiasu anytime.

Yeah, I just don't want my income tax goes into university that my children have difficulty to enter because of my skin.

I believe that australia is pretty uptight when it comes to copyright material. Porn was the thing which did him in, they could also kena him on pirated content as well, well thats what i would do if i was the australian authority.

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