I feel very happy whenever I hear our alumnus has landed with a good job especially with a multinational company or great Malaysian company. This somewhat "vindicate' our college existence and justify the faith the parents sending their kids to AMC for their tertiary education.
Yes folks some of these alumni even gain high income, even better than the bachelor degree holders and this is just two and half years of studying at AMC. And this is happening in an environment where there are about 50,000 odd university graduates who still unemployed or underemployed in the market. (Under the current license, AMC produces diploma courses and cannot produce a bachelor degree yet)
What are our success factors?
I would believe that our insistence in a student scoring a minimum C+ for English or MUET Band 3 before he could graduate. The other reason is the ability to communicate well that we have emphasised at the college since the first day they join us. The third reason is the team-work skill - the ability to organize well. AMCians have been encouraged from the day they enter AMC, to join any one of the clubs established by the college to enable the students to develop their organizational skills and hence develop their leadership skill too. Getting things done is the key words in the working environment and they are measured at the end of the study here.
That the demand of of the employers out there is for their staff to have communication and problem-solving skills is much more pertinent than the academic quality per se has driven AMC towards building the students affection skill. Cognitive learning is important and they could be acquired through a life cycle with basic research skill, but a person with good attitude and communication skills far out weight the benefits to be gained by any employer in the market.
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