1.0 Introduction
1.1 Background of the Study
Unemployment occur when a person is available to work and seeking work but currently without work. The amount of unemployment is usually measured using the unemployment rate, which is defined as the percentage of those in the labor force who are unemployed. The number of unemployed persons in Malaysia increased from 382900 persons in 2011 to 396300 persons in 2012. Unemployed persons in Malaysia are reported by the Department of Statistics, Malaysia. In Malaysia, unemployed persons are individuals who are without a job and actively seeking to work.
For many years, manufacturing had been the strongest sector in the country and the main contributor towards employment creation until the financial crisis in mid-1997. From this period onwards, the agriculture sector was being progressively replaced by the manufacturing and services sector. The services sector, in particular, required people who possess the right soft skills such as communication and interpersonal skills but getting graduates with those qualities has been quite difficult. Generally, most organizations prefer to employ graduates with experience. The employer will find the worker who had a lot of experienced one compared to the one without experience. Lack of experience and skills are also causes of graduate unemployment. Once asked to assess the importance of a comprehensive set of individual skills, business leaders put soft skills at the top of their list, ahead of traits like integrity, professionalism and a positive attitude.
Students must prepare themselves before they graduates and enter the working world. Classroom learning at university or college only equip students with the theoretical and technical knowledge ...
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...ing School and Bakti Siswa. Figure 3 shows the student acceptance that programs that being organized by UPM is beneficial to help them to improve their soft skills.
Figure 3: Student Acceptance that Programs Being Organized by UPM is Beneficial to Help them to Improve their Soft Skills
A total of 32 percent each, students are strongly agree and agree that programs that organized by UPM give the positive impact to them to improve their soft skills. With these programs students can improve their soft skills such as teamwork, communication skills, leadership and entrepreneur skills. During finishing school, students are also being taught to boost their confidence and make them marketable. It also assists students in writing a proper resume and prepares students with different types of interview scenario to improve their interview skills.
5.0 References
The project was completed successfully and all objectives were met. The staff were efficient with the allocated duties and were able to assist the student with their needs during the orientation week. The presence of students and parents at this program also helped promote the University to attract future students.
The basic definition of unemployment is without work. In macroeconomics, unemployment has a very precise definition and different types of unemployment. Unemployment is defined as the total number of adults (aged 16 years or older) who are willing and able to work and who are actively looking for work but have not found a job. (Miller 140).
What we have learned in school into society is not enough for living in society. Theory combined with the actual, prepare for the future. Even more, students can gain experience from the job they are taking. The knowledge in the book is different with from the real work we are taking. Those textbooks show you the idea, but work is depended on our real action, which is a practice behavior.
Unemployment for individuals is a relative concept. Currently, the US government defines the worker as someone who has to be actively seeking work, in order to count as unemployed; a worker who has given up searching for work, which many have done recently, they are no longer counted as unemployed. One possible reason for this is that statistically, numbers on unemployment are geared towards employers, that is because employers care only about the amount of movement within the labor market, which means they prefer unemployment levels that keep workers a bit concerned but not high enough to threaten economic activity or political stability. Workers barely connected to the workforce, are not a factor in this calculation. This is what the conventional debate over the statistical level of “full employment” is based on, and mainstream econom...
Based on my experience during the internship program, I can conclude that this kind of soft skill has improved greatly. It is because I truly take the internship as my opportunity to increase this self-development soft skill. During the five months internship program, there were experiences and occasions that make the self-development soft skill increased, or even the experiences and the occasions forced me, so the self-development soft skill could increase
Simply put unemployment is basically the act of not being employed. In the United States there are several different ways that one can label being unemployed based on the economy of our country at the time. Throughout history we have gone through many different depressions, recessions, and hard times all together. The first major hit this country took was when the stock markets crashed and sent the economy straight down into the sewers. It was called the Great Depression. Many people suffered and it caused suffering this country had never seen before, so many people fell to poverty level. This depression lasted from 1929 to 1941. Most recently America went through what is now called the Great Recession. This started in 2007 and ended June 2009. The general cause was due to the general decrease in the global markets around the world and was the greatest economic turnover since the Great Depression. This nineteen month long recession was what brought about the unemployment status that America is still adjusting too. The unemployment rate reached anywhere from 10 to 15% which is particularly high for our country to endure. By June 2010, the United States government decreased the unemployment rate down to 5%.
This program offers numerous educational tutoring, mentoring, martial arts and physical projects. The goals of this program are to decrease truancy, improve academics, improve self-respect, self-esteem, develop conflict resolution, goal setting skills, improve grades, decrease violent/deviant behavior, and become productive/successful individuals.
Unemployment generates from people who do not have a job. They could be laid off, have gotten fired, or could be in between jobs. It is important to know that unemployment counts people who are able to work. It does not include people that cannot work due to disabilities, or acts along those lines. During a recession, the economy normally experiences a very high unemployment rate.
Unemployment refers to a situation where individuals want to work but are unable to find a job, and as a result labour resources in an economy are not utilised. In 2016, the unemployment within the Australian labour force in March was 5.6%, however it has slightly increased a year later to 5.8%. There are various factors that have contributed to this decrease in the unemployment rate, including cyclically weak demand for labour resulting in employment growing more slowly compared to labour supply. As well as structural influences that affect the efficiency with which unemployed workers are matched to vacant jobs .
Unemployment is a macroeconomic factor that is pertinent to an extensive economy at a regional level. Therefore it affects a large population rather than a few select individuals. Unemployment does not only have social costs, but economic costs too. The ILO, International Labour organization, defines unemployment as, ''People of working age, who are without work, but available for work and actively seeking employment.'' Therefore implying that it is a state of an individual looking for a job but not having one. Unemployment is one of the key indicators in determining the economic stability of a country; hence governments, businesses and consumers closely monitor it. There are numerous aspects that might lead to unemployment such as labour market conflicts and recessions in the economy. There are two main types of unemployment, which can be focused on, seasonal and cyclical unemployment. Seasonal unemployment occurs when a person is unemployed or their profession is not in demand during a particular season. On the contrary, cyclical unemployment occurs when there is less demand for goods and services in the market so consequently supply needs to be decreased.
People need money to purchase all kinds of goods and services they needed every day and sometimes, for goods or services they desire to own. To fulfill that, they have the essential need to earn money. In order to earn money, they must work in either in fields related to their interests or to their qualifications. However, people will meet different challenges during their jobs-hunting sessions, such as many candidates competing for a job vacancy; salaries offered are lower than expected salaries and economic crisis or down which causes unemployment. Unemployment is what we will be looking into in this report. Dwidedi (2010) stated that unemployment is defined as not much job vacancies are available to fulfill the amount of people who want to work and can work according to the current pay they can get for a job they chose to work as. There are four major types of unemployment: frictional, structural, cyclical and seasonal unemployment.
This article, published in Bloomberg, talks about the rise of unemployment in Spain in the final quarter of 2012, caused by the government’s “deepest budget cut in the country’s democratic history.” Statistics shows us that the number of unemployed people rose from 25.01 percent to 26.02 percent, which represents about 6 million people, in the time period of three months. With the unemployment rate increasing by 1.01 percent, it “has lead Spain to become the third of the euro region’s which unemployed”. The unemployment rate can be defined as the number of people unemployed as a percentage of the labour force. Such an increase can have major consequences on the spanish economy, such as a loss of output, increased benefit spending and social problems.
Unemployment rates is the number of unemployed people divided by the number of people in the labor force. According to IndexMundi (2018), the unemployment rate of whole world in year 2017 is 7.9%, which was increased 0.6% compare with year 2016.
In terms of Personal Development I feel that the course has helped me to develop the skills I need to improve my grades, and to build my confidence.
WIE joined hands with Professional Societies such as ISTE, CSI, etc., and successfully offered technical seminars, workshops, and conferences. The same was well received and appreciated by the women students, and is expected to help the women students ready for the challenging work arena. WIE also associated with departmental associations and NSS, to encourage students to involve in social activities and realize the social responsibility. In addition, many soft skill sessions in interpersonal skill and communication skills have been offered to