1. Malaysian Food Festival MFF
CUMaS will be organising our Michaelmas term flagship event – the Malaysian Food Festival on 26th of November (Saturday). There will be lots of authentic, delicious Malaysian food, so be sure to save this date!
Date: Saturday, 26th November 2010
Venue: St Paul’s Church
We are also in need of volunteers! Can’t cook? Not to worry, no experience is required! So long as you’re free that Saturday, or if you’re willing to make time for a few hours before the event, please fill in the spreadsheet here. The upside of volunteering is that you’d get to eat for free (yay!), and it’ll be great to meet people, have fun, and learn some cooking skills!
More details coming up nearer to the date!
2. Imperial College Career Fair by Talent Corp
Talent Corp will be organising an Imperial College Career Fair, bringing big, reputable Malaysian companies to see students in London on 5 November 2011 – engineering companies, oil and gas companies, as well as telcos, banks, consultancy firms and other industries.
Place: Sherfield Building, South Kensington Campus, Imperial College, London
Time: 10.30 am – 4pm
Companies include: More than 20 companies, including Maxis, Celcom, Telekom, Motorola, Intel, Bank Negara, Skrine, Renesas, Strand Aerospace, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte, and many others
For those who are interested, please sign-up here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDRadExXVUlmcGdXZDZ1cXVPU2lVTEE6MQ
PS: Talent Corp will be subsidising the transportation fee – train tickets will be covered (up to £16) so there’s no reason not to sign-up! Do sign-up ASAP guys!
3. Ethos & Co. in Cambridge
Ethos & Co. is coming to Cambridge. If you’re planning to return to Malaysia after graduating or would like to find out more about strategy consulting and what it would be like to jumpstart your career with a home-grown strategy consulting firm, we’d like to meet you!
We’ll be holding a Talk & Networking event in Cambridge. You will have the opportunity to meet consultants from our Kuala Lumpur Office and network with fellow Malaysians from your university. As part of the event, we will be sharing our thoughts on Economic Liberalisation in Malaysia.
Talk & Networking Event
As this is an exclusive event and places are limited, please RSVP by sending an email to Jinho (nathanielclement@gmail.com). If you have already indicated attendance via the event page on Facebook (before 8pm, 26 October 2011), you will be presumed to have confirmed your attendance: you do not need to email Jinho unless you cannot attend.
Meantime, Ethos & Co. is recruiting highly motivated and capable Malaysian young minds graduating in 2012 with a postgraduate degree or MBA to join our strategy consulting practice as Senior Associates. Interested candidates are encouraged to submit their resume now to uk_recruitment@ethos.com.my to be able to secure interview sessions with us during our time in the UK.
Further information regarding Ethos & Co. can be found at www.ethos.com.my.
We look forward to meeting up with you at the event.
4. Donations for Terrence’s Family (Ongoing)
The collection for Terrence’s family is still ongoing, so for those who missed out on it, do read below for more details:
CUMaS is setting up a platform to collect donations for Terrence’s family. For those who are unfamiliar to this, do read the following newspaper articles about Terrence’s inspiring life story:
We do try our best to make the procedure as transparent as we could, with a spreadsheet (link below) that is publicly accessible for all to follow-up on the progress of the donation.
By the end of December, the CUMaS committee will deliver the cheque to Terrence’s family, and we will keep everyone updated with the progress.
For those who wish to donate, we would appreciate it if you could take note of the following steps:
Step 1:
Payment Method –
Cheques made payable to Cambridge University Malaysia Society (Deliver to Fang Yen Sin, Fitzwilliam)
or
Step 2:
Send an email to secretary@cumas.org after you’ve made your donation : stating your Name, College, Email, Amount donated. This is for us to update our spreadsheet at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ApNJ8Cwk34Y0dFliWEh5V1M0cTg0SEpmcURjNDhnNkE&hl=en_US#gid=0 . As mentioned earlier, the spreadsheet can be viewed publicly to ensure transparency and for us to check the progress.
**If you wish to remain anonymous, you may do so but we will still require you to send the email (as of Step 2) for us to keep a record. However, your name will not appear on the public spreadsheet.
Do contact us if you have any queries at all.
Note: Deadline for collection: 20th November 2011, 11.59pm
Facebook Page : http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=201469573259955
We really appreciate all of your contributions and would like to thank all of you on behalf of Terrence’s family.
5. Webinar – Why Is Your Resume Not Getting You Noticed?
Dear Community,
You may be sending your resume to a variety of employers and wondering if your resume is even being considered. There are common resume pitfalls you may be making that could hurt you in a prospective employer’s eyes. For those of you wondering if your resume is showing your best, we’d like to share with you this recent webinar from Ivy Exec, our Career Support Partner.
Ivy Exec is the most exclusive online career network in the world with over 103,000 members in more than 150 countries, and over 25,000 premium job listings. Experts handpick each job and screen each professional for a community of the most qualified professionals in the world and the most sought after jobs globally.
If you’d like to join Ivy Exec’s select network, follow the link below to receive your complimentary trial of All-Access membership:
1. Go to http://www.ivyexec.com/professionals/register/?ref=CAMBRIDGE2011&promo=ALLACCESS3MTH
2. Use promotion code ALLACCESS3MTH
Webinar – Why Is Your Resume Not Getting You Noticed
Brad Attig, Ivy Exec’s Director of Talent Development, has reviewed thousands of resumes in his 12+ years of recruiting and talent acquisition and has identified common red flags in resume styles. In this illuminating webinar, Brad covers these red flag styles, such as “The Cloud”, “The Swiss Army Knife”, “The Tombstone”, and others, using actual but anonymized resumes.
To view this webinar go to: http://bit.ly/oNFbpY
6. SEO in Cambridge
Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO) London is a not-for-profit organisation that every year provides hundreds of outstanding undergraduate students from under-represented ethnic minority backgrounds in the City with not only direct access to the very best graduate employers, but also comprehensive training, mentoring and networking with experienced professionals to ensure that exposure leads to graduate opportunities. More than 80% of the 1,850 undergraduates that SEO has helped to secure summer internships with partner firms since its establishment in 2000, have gone on to receive graduate positions with SEO partner firms. In 2011-12 SEO will provide more than 600 internships with 35+ of the UK’s best graduate employers. SEO now provides opportunities for undergraduates in ALL years of study.
SEO partner firms (where students can be placed on internship programmes or secure graduate positions with) Accenture, Ashurst, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclays Capital, Berwin Leighton Paisner, Citi, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, Factset, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Goldman Sachs, Herbet Smith, HSBC, Institute of Practitioners in Advertising, Jones Day, J.P.Morgan, Johnson and Johnson, KPMG, Latham & Watkins, Linklaters, Macfarlanes, Macquarie, Mayer Brown, Morgan Stanley, Nomura, Novartis, Norton Rose, P&G, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Simmons & Simmons, Weil Gotshal, Winston & Strawn LLP
Details for the campus visit to Cambridge: