GELANG PATAH: A wealth of job opportunities will be beckoning in Johor – especially with massive developments like Forest City – but local graduates will have to rise to the occasion.
The Forest City project is poised to be a model eco-metropolitan city that will create more than 200,000 job opportunities over the next 20 years.
State Unity and Human Resources committee chairman R. Vidyananthan said the mammoth project will become a major source of employment for the state, and it is hoped that Johoreans will gear up for the challenge.
"The project needs expertise in various fields and the state needs to groom the human capital, as Country Garden Pacific View (CGPV) Sdn Bhd, the developer of Forest City, is going to give priority to local graduates.
"The job opportunities are in front of us, but graduates have to prepare themselves based on the requirements of the employer," Vidyananthan told a press conference here after witnessing the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) and CGPV today at the Phoenix Hotel Forest City.
The MoU involves the training of UTM students to meet the human capital demand at CGPV for the Forest City project
It was signed by UTM vice-chancellor Datuk Dr Wahid Omar and associate professor Dr Othman Ibrahim on behalf of the university; and CGPV development head Joseph Fu, who is also Country Garden Holdings regional president, and its executive director Datuk Md Othman Yusof, on behalf of CGPV.
In October, CGPV also signed an MoU with Yayasan Pelajaran Johor (YPJ) Education Group College for the internship, scholarships and recruitment of 293 students to Forest City.