Career Planning & Job Search Techniques for Experienced Job Seekers

📅 Date: Wednesday, 12 February 2025
⏰ Time: 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Breakfast starts at 8:30 AM)
💵 Price: RM67.00 (Includes materials, breakfast & lunch)
📍 Venue: Malaysia HR Forum Academy, Level 12, Menara PKNS, Jalan Yong Shook Lin, 46050, Petaling Jaya, Selangor

Struggling to secure a job, make a career transition, or overcome job search challenges? Mr. Arulkumar Singaraveloo and Ms. Gladys De Silva is here to share practical strategies for job hunting and career growth.

🎯 Course Outline

📓Module Overview

Experienced job seekers often face unique challenges that can make the job search process more complex than those earlier in their careers. Among the challenges faced are age discrimination, skill gaps, salary expectations, inability to make career transitions and challenges in navigating career transitions, limited network or outdated connections, perception of career plateau, psychological and emotional concerns, and many more. It can be stressful for experienced professionals who cannot secure a decent job despite their perceived capability to succeed in the job. Why am I struggling to land a job despite my experience? Why am I called for numerous interviews but failed to get an offer? Often, these experienced job seekers feel the world is against them. This seminar unravels the key to overcoming such challenges and prepares job seekers to spring back.

📓Learning Objectives

📌Participants will find this seminar a life-changing seminar that will help them better understand themselves and how things work in the employment scene. The speakers are highly experienced in human resources and career counselling and are experienced interviewers. They will guide you to see things from new and different perspectives.

📓Targeted Participants

📌This seminar is designed to address the unique needs of experienced professionals seeking to advance or pivot in their careers or those trying to get back into employment after a career break. Candidates who are struggling at their current employment are encouraged to attend.

📓Learning Outcome

By the end of the webinar, participants will:

📌Identify their short-term and long-term plans.

📌Understand the issues that block their growth and progress.

📌Equip experienced professionals with advanced job search strategies.

📌Enhance career planning and personal branding.

📌Provide tools for networking and leveraging industry contacts.

📌Develop skills for navigating the modern job market.

📌Preparing an effective resume.

📓 Contents

Module 1
📚Self-assessment and career vision
📚. Long-term planning and overcoming current hurdles
📚. Networking strategies and industry connections
📚 Job search strategies & tools
📚 How to beat the competition
📚 Making career transitions and navigating career transitions effectively
Module 2
📚 Personal branding & online presence
📚 Interview preparation & techniques
📚 Writing effective resumes (with sample template)
📚 Understanding how recruitment works and why applications are not shortlisted
📚 Understanding the minds of the recruiters and hiring managers and repositing yourself

📓Trainer's Profile

Arulkumar Singaraveloo

Arulkumar Singaraveloo better known as Arul comes with 21 years of progressive HR experience in a world-leading semiconductor organization. A Bachelor’s in Engineering (UTM) graduate and subsequently obtained an MBA from Strathclyde University, Scotland.

An experienced HR Director with solid experience in various HR spectrum, made him the co-founder of Malaysia HR Forum, a fast-growing HR platform in Malaysia that has over 43,000 members and growing aggressively that provides learning opportunities to HR practitioner and business leaders. The Forum also focuses on HR transformation to strengthen the operational excellence in HR for sustainable growth in the country.

Arul has also provided educational and training solutions to strategic partners and industry players, such as the world’s largest nitrile Glove Manufacturer, Oil & Gas, and Transportation Technology. He has led large HR teams and workforce exceeding 9,000 employees during his career. He had the privilege to lead the labour and social compliance framework and development which he has developed management systematics on social compliance ensuring the HR business goals are achieved.

Gladys De Silva

Gladys De Silva is a Certified HR Practitioner with 20 years of experience in Public Relations, Retail, Automotive, Financial and Consulting sectors. She excels in partnering with leadership teams to identify top talents, foster employer branding initiatives and implement innovative recruitment strategies. Gladys has conducted a range of workshops and training sessions covering various facets of Talent Acquisition, Career Development and Organisational Effectiveness. Her unwavering commitment to empowering individuals at different stages of their careers reflects not just dedication but a passion for advancing professional growth and development.

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