Helping non-graduates get employment
By Zan Hosni

Principal Consultant of BMA-JOSUP (standing far left) with the
successful first batch of JOSUP participants

Bru Management Academy (BMA) is an organisation that specialises in many things, like entrepreneurship coaching programmes, human resource training and development, consultancy, recruitment and placement. Recently, it set up a Job Start Up and Placement Scheme (JOSUP).

With an accumulated experience of more than twenty years, the qualified management team moderated and coordinated its trainees to have extra competencies, in order to remain competitive in the job market.

Yesterday, the 3-day course programme came to a close with a total of fifteen students coming out more confident and eager to move on and further enhance their job skills.

The participants, all possessing a range of academic qualifications, had learnt a variety of skills from communication and teamwork to resume-writing skills.

Abdul Ghani Jantan, the Principal Consultant of BMA-JOSUP, explained that there is currently a number of non-graduates as well as fresh graduates who are finding it difficult to get jobs in the respective fields of their choices and competencies.

"To be selected into the main stream of the workforce in Negara Brunei Darussalam, future applicants have to be more creative and strategic thinkers to compete with others who possess higher qualifications and skills," he elaborates.

One of the participants of the course said that joining the programme has benefited her a lot as she has acquired essential skills, such as basic computer knowledge, communication tools and personal grooming.

The 19-year-old, fresh from her A-levels - hoped to apply her newly acquired skills during her UBD interview, which will determine whether she would be accepted or not.

The participants agree that the JOSUP programme was a valuable 3-day course and will no doubt help those that are unemployed to gain the necessary skills needed to remain competitive in the job market.

Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin