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Press Statement of YB Sim Tze Tzin
8 April, 2008
Online Employment System
In view of recent downturn in global economy especially from the
US, Penang, at the forefront of global supply chain, is
undoubtedly facing tumulus time ahead. Penangites have to brace
ourselves for challenging times.
First few challenges have come in as no surprise when several
factories started to lay off their employees. My office has
received several calls from the affected workers, asking for
help. I am aware of their plights and would like to help as much
as possible.
We are aware that in fact several companies are actually in dire
need of workers. Informal statistics showed that in fact worker
turnover rate is as high as 14%, that showed that there are
plenty job opportunities out there. However, there seem to be
mismatches between jobs and jobless, between different
geographical locations, between skill sets and experience. It is
therefore important to make market as efficient as possible to
match the jobless and job openings.
I see tremendous opportunity to match these affected workers
with job openings with new technology. The internet has provided
the leveled playing fields of this global employment phenomenon.
We intend to use the internet to help the mismatches find their
best match. We intend to capitalize on the new technology to
make employment market more efficient.
As a younger generation ADUN, I intend to serve the people in
Penang in conventional and unconventional ways. With the help of
young and experience generation of community volunteers, we have
successfully innovated our services to the people with new and
exciting ways.
We are creating an online system to allow job seekers,
especially the factory workers, to submit their resume online as
well as to let employers list their job openings. The system
will then allow both parties to search or perform a match.
However, in view of the current situation where there are many
people being jobless lately, we have broken down the system
implementation into a few phases in order to be able to meet the
current critical need first.
Phase one is to collect all the resumes and details of those who
have just lost their job recently to determine the extent of the
problem. And since majority of them do not have any internet
access, we will be collecting their details in hardcopy and have
their resumes entered into an online database. We will then
approach employers to see if they have any job openings that are
suitable for these people. The first phase would be rather
semi-automated and as we move forward to develop the online
system further, it would eventually be automated when we fully
launch it.
Please also be aware that, this service will not guarantee
employment and it only serve as a platform to make employer and
employees to match each other more efficiently.
We would like to provide the first service to the affected
workers on this coming weekend.
Date: 12 April, 2008 (Saturday)
Time: 2-4pm
Venue:
Bilik Operasi KeADILan Opposite Hotel Vistana
It is time we converge our workers into global human capital
resources.
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