ic but don't think its possible cuz not advisable to let current job senior know that I'm interested to leave.

Generally (as far as I understand), the reason a future potential employer asks for referee is to get to know more about you (it can be personality, working performance etc..) So if you can get someone who knows you well, would be good. I am not sure how bad it would be if your current job senior knows you are planning to leave, but as for my personal opinion, it wont be as bad because everyone has the right to choose who to work for, and absolutely free to choose the desired career path to proceed. I presume most educated people should be well aware of that and will be able to accept it with open minded (unless I am wrong about Malaysian's culture).

I suppose it would be better to let your current employer knows that you might be leaving for new job rather than not , and suddenly throw in a resignation letter. But that's just my own view, I can be wrong because I have not worked in Malaysia before. Hopefully other experienced member could give us some advice here.

Best of luck

Is it possible to get a senior with whom you have excellent personal relationship (you treat him/her as friends after work, for example) and get him/her to be your referee on a confidential basis? This is the only solution I can see to your dilemma.

Malaysian culture is a bit different, in my opinion. The prevailing mentality seems to be, "You're leaving? But why? What? You want me to be your referee? Why should I? You're leaving my company and you're asking me to be your referee? You must be kidding me."

Is it ok to include previous supervisors/seniors as referees sometimes without telling them and provide the company's phone number/email? I did that and I had a good relationship and experience with them. How would you know if your potential new employer checked with them about you??

cover letter is most important part in resume. it must be included in CV. you get first chance to create impression on employer through your your strengths.

Sometimes you'll never know at all.

Regards, Joey

Imagine how many resumes' your potential employer is receiving everyday for a vacancy that you want. You want to be able to get that interview and secure your position in the new company.

Before even your potential meets you, your resume will give him/ her what are you all about. If your resume is poorly or even loosely written, you lost to your competition.

In my opinion, your resume is your marketing agent; Do you think its marketing you really well? Does it make you stand out?

do they notify you if they read your resume and decided not to even let you in for an interview?

Most probably they don't. They will rather spend their time to call up the successful candidate.

Indeed they won't. Come to think of it, what good does it do? It's like saying, "I've checked you out, but I don't think you are good enough".

jobstreet got this function

Is it necessary to write our resume or cover letter for a job application in Bahasa Malaysia?

Depends.

What job?

Thanks. Yeah, it depends. But generally BM no harm I guess. Already called the department.
It is a new (2011) department under JPM.

I'm currently in sales field, I want a career change. I dont want to work in sales anymore as my sales performance only reach 90-95% every quarter..not that good la..never hit more than 95%. So, If I want to apply for a job which got nothing to do with sales, is it necessary to include my percentage of performance? But I dont want a sales job..

Ladies and gentlemen, I am studying degree in computer science. I passed all subjects and now waiting for the official transcript and certificate to be released. I will graduate soon.

There is a company in my area have more than one I.T. related open positions. I am interested in many of the open positions. Do I need to write multiple resumes, one resume for each position? Can I just write one resume that cover all the positions that I interested?

If I just need to write one resume, in the resume title, in what way should I write multiple positions?

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Added on August 1, 2012, 10:17 amAnd, that company require the applicants to submit certificate. Since I am still waiting for the certificate, should I apply the positions now? If yes, in the resume, how to tell them that I am still waiting for the certificate?

This post has been edited by cshong: Aug 1 2012, 10:18 AM

I'm previously in hr line for 5years some CV & cover letter is very poorly done. It's so obvious that, it's has been copy & paste.

Do PM me if you need proper cv to make yourself stand-out from the hundreds of resume that u submit when applying for a job.

Good luck guys!

From what I think, you can keep a general outline of your personal details, qualifications, co-curicular activities and so on but do fine tune to each company for each respective company. Making it personalized will give a better impression and by doing so it already shows that you are interested with them. You can look up for the requirements stated in each position. Then change your resume according to their requirements or their objective
Cheers

I have questions to ask regarding CV,

if I have been working for the same company for the past 4 years, and I have been promoted several times, how should I capture the information under the work experience section? should I classify it under each company example

i -Company ABC (position Manager)

<description of role>

ii -Company ABC (position Team Leader)

<description of role>

iii -Company ABC (Executive)

<description of role>


or

should I compile it under same company

Company ABC

i -Position: Manager (Jan 2012 - current)
<description of role>

ii - Team eader (Jan 2011 - Dec 2012)
<description of role>

<description of role>


Which one is more effective?

^I worked in the same company for 4.5 years, I used format #2 for my resume. Format #1 looks very clunky to me.