The guide to employing Malaysian Millennials

Bank Negara Malaysia holds onto its top spot as the most ideal employer for business graduates in Malaysia, while for their engineering counterparts, PETRONAS remains as their most desirable employer, according to the Malaysia Top 100 IDEAL Employers student survey released by Universum.

Collating responses from 15,883 graduates from 27 different universities, the survey seeks to unmask the career goals as well as employer preferences in Malaysia.

In an exclusive statement to Human Resources, Dato’ Raiha Azni A Rahman, senior vice president for group human resource management of PETRONAS shared that the company upholds its EVP - namely trust, grow and reward - to attract, motivate and retain talents in driving continued success. “PETRONAS adopts diversity and inclusivity in its people policies and practices, in line with the needs of today’s workforce,” she added.

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For more than half of the Malaysian young talent (55% business students and 56% engineering students), the most important career goal upon graduation is obtaining work-life balance. Coming in second is the ability for graduates to maintain the stability of their job.

In fact, achieving career security could become the most important career goal among young local talent, ahead of even work-life balance, especially since a total of 31,476 employees in Malaysia were laid off between January and September 2016, the study revealed.

Most interesting, unlike their Singaporean counterparts who chose leadership as their third most important priority, close to three in 10 Malaysian graduates (34% business students, 29% engineering students) aspire to have an international career.

Meanwhile, this year’s Forbes Global 2000 list saw 14 Malaysian companies making the cut and sharing the spotlight with some of the biggest, most powerful and valuable firms in the world.

Here are the Malaysian companies that made it into the list of top 1,000:

# 390 - Malayan Banking [Maybank] # 490 - Tenaga Nasional # 632 - Public Bank # 671 - CIMB Group Holdings # 791 - Sime Darby

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