“SHELL Campus Ambassadors Seek Creative Students” – Career Seed Program Technology, Education & Career XIII

UTP, 16^th March 2013 – “During our interview sessions for scholarships, internships and even employments, we look for students who are not only talented, but also creative in thinking,” said Mr Syafiq Fadhly Bin Mahmud, Production Technologist Sarawak Shell Berhad.

Mr Syafiq Fadhly, a UTP alumni, was invited to be the speaker of the Career Seed Program. He is a member of Shell Campus Ambassador, a team who are trying their best in finding talented students in universities. “Communication skills are very important in order to have a good performance in any career,” said Mr Syafiq Fadhly.

Some students have the misconception that oil and gas industries such as Shell only seek for engineering students. In truth, Shell is also looking for students from other fields, not only from the engineering stream. “We need people from Accounting, Finance, Information Technology, Civil Engineering, Business, Law and so on.”

The Committee of the program, Yong Hong Yaw (ME, 2^nd year) informed us that the main purpose of the event was to give some exposure to students in UTP about future careers in the oil and gas industry; particularly foundation, 1^st and 2^nd year students. They hope that the students may gain useful information regarding their future career through this program. Hence it was named ‘Career Seed Program’.

A participant, Kuan Shao Kang (CE, Foundation 3^rd), told us that the event was beneficial to him as he managed to get some basic ideas about future careers in the oil and gas industry. “I will try my best to attend such an event again in the future.”

The next career seed program will be carried out in the next semester.

Token of appreciation given by the committee to Mr. Syafiq Fadhly.

By Pnwee Jun Wee, BIS