Are You Prepared For Unemployment?

Latt Omar Shariman, Co-Founder of Ruang Cikgu

16-Jun-20 12:00

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With Malaysia’s unemployment rate at the highest it's ever been for over 30 years, with more than 750,000 Malaysians now unemployed, is the worst still yet to come? So how best do you prepare for the uncertainty that lies ahead? Upskill & reskill! We speak to Latt Omar Shariman, Co-Founder of Ruang Cikgu on how they are capitalising the dire need to be equipped with the tools to run your own business with a learning platform that’s available in Bahasa Melayu.

Produced by: Jeff Sandhu

Presented by: Jeff Sandhu, Freda Liu, and Richard Bradbury

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Categories: Business Analysis, Trends and Forecasts, Markets, Personal Finance, Investments, Financial Literacy, Young Finance, Personal Development, Entrepreneurship, SME

Tags: Covid-19, unemployment, upskill, reskill, bahasa, ruang cikgu,

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