INSIGHTS @ MAHSA

Deepavali is the triumph of good over evil…so on a good day like this, let’s shine our light on all that is evil around us and make the change.  Happy Deepavali... Watch our Message to the World!

IPE once again brought us another talk in its monthly series with the topic, High Impact Internship on 6th October 2022. Ms Vimalla Kerisnan, a Senior HR Executive at Everlife-Chemopharm shared her experience on internship and highlights how it would actually benefit both employers and the students. It is important to understand the concept of internship itself for us to appreciate the values that will be gained from the internship.  Internship is a short-term work experience offered by companies—usually students, but not always—to get some entry-level exposure to a particular industry or field. The duration is usually 3 months. Nowadays, most of big-capacity companies and even SMEs absorb fresh graduates who have completed their internship programmes into the company. Here some reasons why companies have internship programmes. Benefit from the work interns do Interns usually take on simple administrative duties, alleviating employees’ workload so they can focus on other tasks. Bu...

  The IPE Committee at MAHSA University continuously supports the students of MAHSA University by bringing in external speakers' to share their experiences on skills-sets that are anticipated as essential for future industrial needs. IPE in its special event series with its second talk entitled “Corporate Social Responsibility: Influencing positive change at work", invited Ms Shafinaz Suhaimi, Senior Manager at MyKasih Foundation. Ms Shafinaz Suhaimi delivered this topic on CSR and Sustainability at work. As a philanthropist, and currently a senior manager at MyKasih foundation which she had joined eleven  years ago, her role in MyKasih Foundation mainly involves strategic partnership to raise fund for MyKasih flagship cashless programme and those aligned with the United Nation Sustainable Development goals. In her talk, she highlighted the importance of CSR to employees and employers alike. CSR - what was once deemed as groundbreaking, is now the norm for responsible busi...

  The Internship, Placement and Employability (IPE) Committee at MAHSA University continuously helps the students with entrepreneurial programs and supports entrepreneurs by getting their ideas off the ground. IPE began its series of Special Event Talks on Feb 10, 2022 with its first talk entitled ‘Entrepreneurial Skill Set: Empowering Youth to Create Leaders’ by Mr. Christopher Tock, Group Chief Executive Officer, Digitally.Asia Group Malaysia, as well as Chief Executive Officer, Cause Effect Digital and SocialGrooves.com. Addressing hundreds of MAHSA students, staff and visitors, and even guests online, Mr. Christopher Tock advised the students to grab all forms of opportunities, acquire knowledge and be the best one can be. Instead of waiting for the others, if one feels strongly about something, just take the ball and solve the root issue, as if one were to wait for others, it may never happen. Quoting Prof. Dr. Muhammad Yunus who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in...