Technology, Education and Career Fair 2013 (TECXIII): “Enrich Your Career Path”

By Pnwee Jun Wee, BIS

Tronoh, 19^th June 2013 – Technology, Education and Career Fair 2013 (TECXIII) is one of the biggest annual events of Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS. The organizer is the Career Advisory and Alumni Services Unit of Student Support Service Department. “The main objective of this event is to provide a platform to UTP students, especially those who are going for internship or graduating soon, to acquire information of the companies that they plan to engage with,” said Mr Moosa Mohammed Taha Abdullah, Project Manager of TEC 2013. 

Opened to the public, TEC saw 25 secondary school’s involvement in the National Oil Rig Competition, a sub event of TEC 2013. Other pre-events include a pre-employment program, recycling competition, CV workshop, career talk, corporate grooming and so on.

TEC 2013 was mainly sponsored by SapuraKencana Petroleum Berhad. “We are glad to have Dato’ Mokhzani Mahathir, Executive Vice Chairman of SapuraKencana Petroleum Berhad as our VVIP for TEC this year,” said Mr Moosa.

TEC had witnessed a steady increase in the number of participating companies for the past twelve years since 2001. There were about 50 companies that participated in TEC this year, Shell, Petronas, Halliburton, Schlumberger, Baker Hughes, Continental, Honda, Petra Energy, Aker Solution were just some to name a few. 

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