Should you be aiming to become a lecturer, or even a faculty member in an oversea institution, character, maturity, and how you behave is not the only requirements that matter.

What's more important is your research profile, e.g. total number of publications and where have you been to as a postdoc. In many highly ranked universities, they require their faculty member candidate to have postdoc experience. And in terms of publication, they prefer quality over quantity, which means the journal's impact factor plays a vital role.

If you compared to other foreign institutions, our Malaysian universities' requirements for a lecturer or a faculty member is very very lenient. And I wonder is it because of this leniency, the quality is lacking.