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KITA Meeting with TalentCorp

Date : Thursday, 2nd June 2011
Host : SilTerra

Talent Corporation Malaysia (TalentCorp) is a unit under the Prime Minister's Department specially designed to initiate and facilitate initiatives that will help the country meet its talent needs, by working closely and building partnerships with leading companies and Government agencies (see www.talentcorp.com.my).

The purpose of this meeting with KITA is for TalentCorp to understand and solicit feedback from the industries in KHTP on matters pertaining to attraction and retention of talents (local and foreign) and concurrently introduce their products and services which they are offering that include :

Nurturing Malaysians:
Initiatives planned that will support to nurture Malaysians talents include:

• Upskilling programmes for Malaysians

• Improving the public scholarship system (such as the plan to enable Malaysian Government scholars to transfer their bond to Malaysian companies).

• Improving university curricula so graduates are more industry-ready.

• Networking opportunities for top talents to link up with critical industries.

• Setting up sectoral working groups to engage both industry and Government agencies in addressing talent requirements

Returning to Malaysia:
Returning Expert Programme (REP) - a programme to attract and assist returning Malaysian experts to transfer and relocate back to Malaysia.

Expatriates:
The Residence Pass (RP) is an initiative offered to highly qualified expatriates seeking to continue living and working in Malaysia on a long-term basis.

...some of the participants during the meeting...