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08 Mar

PR Executive for YOUTH’10: Malaysia’s Largest Youth Festival

This position is currently open.
Responsibilities:

  • Overall management of key media, public relations, corporate communication
  • Develop & maintain the YOUTH’10 website, press releases, press conferences
  • Prepare media materials including newsletters, press kit materials & presentation
  • Build positive working relationship with all Medias and sectors’ point of contact
  • Assist in planning and organising internal and external events to maximize brand awareness
  • Assist in developing and implementing PR strategies in line with YOUTH’10 activities

Requirements:

  • Excellent team player. Able to work well with a group of dynamic young professionals
  • Excellent PR skills, able to create effective relationships with press/media
  • Required language(s): English, Bahasa Malaysia. Chinese is a bonus.
  • At least 2 years of working experience in the related field is required for this position.
  • Good media rapport and extensive network of contacts.
  • A confident team player with an effective communication with interpersonal and public speaking skills.
  • Pleasant personality, extrovert, self-starter, resourceful, results oriented and positive outlook.
  • Possess strong drive to succeed with determination and initiative to achieve excellent results in a challenging but rewarding environment
Attractive remuneration package:
  • Great career progression and development for outstanding achievers.
  • Motivating and challenging work environment.

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08 Mar

Finance & HR Manager

This position is currently open.
Responsibilities:
* prepare monthly salaries & payroll;
* manage paperwork for HR related communications (i.e. appointment letters, increments)
* manage administration of the Company;
* managing Youth Asia’s financial accounting, monitoring and reporting systems;
* providing and interpreting financial information;
* conducting reviews and evaluations for cost-reduction opportunities;
* liaising with auditors to ensure annual monitoring is carried out;
* developing external relationships with appropriate contacts e.g. auditors, solicitors, bankers and statutory organisations such as the Inland Revenue;
* producing accurate financial reports to specific deadlines;
* managing budgets;
* keeping abreast of changes in financial regulations and legislation.
Requirements:

  • Candidate must possess at least a Professional Certificate, Bachelor’s Degree, Post Graduate Diploma, Professional Degree, Business Studies/Administration/Management, Finance/Accountancy/Banking, Human Resource Management or equivalent.
  • At least 3 year(s) of working experience in the related field is required for this position.
  • Preferably Managers specializing in Finance – General/Cost Accounting or equivalent.
  • Willing to join small-medium but fast growing company
  • Full-Time positions available.

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08 Mar

Client Sales Associate

This position is currently open.

Responsibilities:

* You will be responsible for the sales of one of our core businesses in online surveys, social media advertising, or campus marketing.
* On a daily basis, you will be taking requests from clients, meeting clients, building relationships with clients, finding new business and liaising with our project teams to deliver products to clients.
* Once a week, you will be reviewing sales strategy and goals, improving on the sales processes, and giving feedback to improve the products.
Requirements

  • Rock solid skills in Sales
  • Able to converse in English well
  • Candidate must possess at least a Bachelor’s Degree / Professional Degree, any field.
  • At least 2 year(s) of working experience in the related field is required for this position.
  • Preferably Managers specializing in Sales – Corporate or equivalent.
  • 5 Full-Time positions available.

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01 Mar

A goodbye letter from one of our bright young interns

*Published with permission *

The day that I leave this office finally came.

To be completely honest, there’s a sinking feeling in my chest. I don’t like it. Maybe I’ve just got too comfortable here.

You guys are more than just mere colleagues. Hell, you crackers are more than friends to me. I see you guys as family, as siblings.
Which makes it a whole lotta hard to let go.

It’s time to close this book, and open a new one. And I know I have all of your blessings to go out and do what I wanna do.

Forgive me for any of my wrongdoings. I’m sorry if I offended you with the way I speak. I’m sorry if I accidentally raised my voice at you. I’m sorry if I got snappy. I’m sorry for isolating myself for way too long. I’m sorry.

But at the same time thank you.
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to learn so much.
Thank you for taking a risk with me.
Thank you for believing in me and my limited abilities.
Thank you for the random hugs, the jokes and the laughs.
Thank you for turning me into a much, much happier person than I was before.
Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you.

But it’s not like I’m gonna die or anything right? So if you just feel like hanging out, I’m just a phone call/text/tweet away. Drop me an email. I’ll drop by the office lor to visit. And I’ll bring cookies :D

“Weekend warriors and our best friends
The writers weren’t kidding about how all good things must end
Then again some things, then again some things are far too good
Some things are far too good to go ahead and let go

Always up or down, never down and out
Dream of demons when you speak, that make you stutter when you sleep
Always up or down, never down and out
Dream of demons when you speak, that make you stutter when you sleep
Sleep now or forever hold your peace

We won’t forget Tony or Johnny
No matter how they miss us they still wish us the best on the road
Garrett took a plane to Paris, France
Now he’s cooking up entrees for the pretty pretty French girls
Bookends, Blue and Clarity to The Wall and Grace
Darkside, Wish and a toast to the Late Figure 8
Weekend warriors and our best friends
The writers weren’t kidding but the good things will live in our hearts”
- ‘Down and Out’ by The Academy Is (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQQNSMJ6me8)

This is a blog post I made yesterday, but it’s in Bahasa Malaysia. If you wanna read it, this is the link. :)

You guys are amazing. Don’t let other people tell you otherwise.

Forever grateful – your ex-colleague, your friend
Lina Halizah binti Abdul Halim

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23 Feb

YOUTH: Media, Influence, and Winning Them Over (Full script + slides of MMC2009 presentation)

DSC_0258To the organizers and guests of the Malaysian Media Conference 2009, you rock.

We live in exciting times and I’m honored to have been given the chance share some insights about the youth market. I hope this transcript of the presentation is useful to you in sharing your ideas as well.

To those who didn’t attend the presentation, the 6th Malaysian Media Conference (MMC) is an annual alumni of about 250 media pundits, industry specialists and key media decision-makers in the fields of media, marketing, branding and advertising across Malaysia. Amongst the speakers featured are thought leaders in their space from Malaysia, Singapore, India, Australia and Japan. http://www.adoimagazine.com/mmc2009/

I was very humbled by the opportunity to speak there about the one thing I am most passionate about.

Here are the transcript and slides:

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08 Feb

Our co-founders are in ONE Young World!

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Our co-founders, Joel Neoh and Khailee Ng  were selected to represent Malaysia in the One Young World, a global leadership summit for young leaders. The inaugural summit took place on Feb. 8-10, 2010, in London.

During the One Young World Summit, together with 1000 young pioneers from 192 countries, Joel and Khailee were guided, counselled, considered and voted on the One Young World resolutions. As decision makers of the future, they had plenary discussions about issues that are affecting and would eventually affect our world, such as global health, political leadership, interfaith dialogue, media, business and environment, were guided by the One Young World Counsellors.

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02 Jan

Ministry of Youth & Sports picks co-founder of Youth Asia as part of the National Youth Consultative Council

It started with a phone call.

A few meetings. Then a letter.

Our co-founder Joel Neoh was amongst one of 20 appointed to join the Majlis Perundingan Belia Negara, or the National Youth Consultative Council for 2009-2010.

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11 Dec

Joel speaks at MyLDS – AIESEC’s largest anual leadership seminar

Amongst many awesome individuals, our co-founder Joel was invited to speak at AIESEC’s Malaysia Leadership Development Seminar (MyLDS) held in Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM) last December 6-11, 2009.

MyLDS (3)Joel Neoh talks about his experiences in entrepreneurship

MyLDS was another activity of AIESEC in Malaysia which aims to provide an international platform for young people to explore and develop their leadership potential for them to have a positive impact in society.
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This six-day workshop brought together about 500 AIESECers and young people from universities and colleges from Malaysia, Taiwan, Singapore, Sri Lanka and India. The delegates aspired to be leaders and change agents for their societies. Some of the featured topics which stirred their emotions and interest were about HIV/AIDS, Entrepreneurship, and Environmental Sustainability.

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10 Dec

Position Open: Youth Research Manager

This position is currently open.

Responsibilities:
We are looking for a managerial level person who has strong market research technical knowledge (both quantitative and qualitative experience required), yet versatile enough to quickly learn and eventually represent Youth Asia well for our other range of products (Campus event activation, social media marketing and youth festival).

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05 Dec

AIESEC selects Joel as a Supervisory Group Member

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Joel Neoh, co-founder of Youth Asia has been selected as a Supervisory Group Member of AIESEC.
As a Supervisory Group Member, Joel will oversee the overall organization and management of all AIESEC projects.
AIESEC is a global, non-political, independent and not-for-profit organization run by students and recent graduates of institutions of higher learning. Its members are interested in world issues, leadership and management. AIESEC does not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, gender, sexual orientation, creed, religion, national, ethnic or social origin.
It is the world’s largest student organization, an international platform for young people to discover and develop their potential so as to have a positive impact in society.

Our Executive Director Joel Neoh has been selected as a Supervisory Group Member of AIESEC!

On top of his (huge pile of) duties in Youth Asia, Joel now has something new on his plate: he will now oversee the overall organization and management of all AIESEC projects.

Watch this space for more exciting collaborations with AIESEC! :)

AIESEC is a global, non-political, independent and not-for-profit organization run by students and recent graduates of institutions of higher learning. Its members are interested in world issues, leadership and management. AIESEC does not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, gender, sexual orientation, creed, religion, national, ethnic or social origin. It is the world’s largest student organization, an international platform for young people to discover and develop their potential so as to have a positive impact in society.

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