ADDRESSING SKILLS GAP IN THE WORKFORCE


Human Resources Minister Datuk Seri M. Saravanan (fourth left)) and Deputy Higher Education Minister Datuk Dr Ahmad Masrizal Muhammad (third left) during the launch of TalentCorp’s mynext initiative. With them is TalentCorp group CEO Thomas Mathew (far right). – AZLINA ABDULLAH/The Star.

BASED on the Graduates Statistics 2021 published by the Department of Statistics Malaysia, the graduate unemployment rate looks positive – settling at 4.1% as compared to 4.4% in 2020.

Yet within that reduction, graduates working in semi-skilled and low-skilled job categories in the labour market increased to 33.9% from 31.2% in the previous year.

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