UGM as a higher education institution always try to increase the education and learning quality. One of the efforts is to capture information from the alumni as an integral part, which is inseparable from the university by the Tracer Study program. Other than as means of alumni tracing, information obtained by this program can also benefit UGM to help adjust the education system to maximize students’ competency so that they are able to compete and are needed by the market. Looking at the great benefits, UGM relaunched Tracer Study 2016.
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“Preparing yourself for the career world is something you must do. This is due to the growing industry, increasingly tighter competition, and smarter client,” explained Herni Surhatini that is SVP HR PT. Elang Mahkota Teknologi (EMTEK) in ‘From Campus to Corporate’ Seminar on Friday (4/11) at the UGM Central Library Seminar Room. Self preparation is not only important for the career world, but also in entrepreneurship. With self preparation, Job seekers are not only focused merely on the income, but also have more understanding the job goal and able to love the jobs they’ll be doing.
“Don’t ever be tired of being Indonesian. Bring positive energy wherever we go to make Indonesia better.” So was the advice from the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia, Retno Marsudi, given at Grha Sabha Pramana UGM on Wednesday (2/11) as Emtek Goes To Campus (EGTC) 2016 series of events. Requested to be a speaker on the first day of ‘Inspiring Talk” session, the alumna of Faculty of Social and Political Sciences (FISIPOL) UGM shared her life journey as a diplomat for almost 30 years.
“Extra skill that is owned aside from those that were formed throughout your classes can be your added value to get the job you want or to be an entrepreneur. One of those extra skills is public speaking,” said I Made Andi Arsana, Ph. D., as the head of UGM Global Initiatives office, in his speech at Career Talks and Explorations seminar on Tuesday (1/11). With the theme ‘Public Speaking’ as the eighth series, the seminar that was held by UGM Subdirectorate of Alumni Relation invited Radju Manusamy that is the Chairman of Jebsen & Jessen Indonesia as a speaker.
Gadjah Mada Volleyball Alumni (AVOGAMA) held a cross-generation Grand Reunion for members of the Volleyball Student Activity Unit (UKM) UGM on Thursday-Friday (28-29 / 10). Located in the Hall of Student Center UGM, this reunion was attendedby members of AVOGAMA from the class of 1970 and on. There are various series of activities in this reunion of which are fun games for cross-generation as well as employees and lecturers of UGM, watching together GAMA CUP Universities Volleyball Championship 2016, gathering night, night culinary travel, and AVOGAMA Workshop with the theme “Alumni Participation in the Development of Volleyball UKM”.
Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) Alumni are spread evenly not only in Indonesia but also abroad. Given the large number of alumni both in quantity and quality, various positive potentials can be developed through a strong bond between the alumni. For example is idea contribution for the advance of almamater UGM on providing educational facilities as well as improvement on knowledge that is taught to the students. Therefore, UGM held Alumni Meet and Education Promotion in a number of ASEAN countries. After visiting Laos and Thailand on the third week of October 2016, UGM team then headed to Vietnam and Myanmar on Thursday-Monday (20-24/10).
In this globalization era, the career world does not only require people with only good academic skills, but also those with strong character. That was told by Dr. Syahrial Mukhtar, M.M. of PT. Pertamina (Persero) in the debriefing of Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) October 2016 period prospective graduates on Tuesday (18/10) at the Graha Sabha Pramana (GSP). Syahrial mentioned that there are at least three characteristics of human resources needed in today’s global competition. It is integrity, creativity, and diversity.
Currently the Japanese companies opened themselves by recruiting 25% international graduates of Japanese and non-Japanese universities each. This is what underlies the Top Career, in collaboration with the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan, to hold NIN2 (Nippon New Network for Innovation) Job Fair in Indonesia.
“Indonesia is a country with a lot of potential workers based on pyramid-shaped population growth which means there are a lot of population of productive age,” said Kyoro Shimokihara as Top Career International representative for the ASEAN region in NIN2 Job Fair Pre-Event Seminar on Friday (7/10) morning on the second floor of Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) Central Library. This seminar is part of the NIN2 Job Fair event series which will be held on November 6th, 2016 in Jakarta.
Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) organizes Alumni Meet and Education Promotion in ASEAN countries during the months of September to October 2016. This is one way to increase the university’s reputation towards World Class University status by organizing the UGM education promotion along with Alumni Meet. The program began in several ASEAN countries namely Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, and Vietnam. This is done considering a strong alumni association will support their positions in ASEAN countries on facing the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC).
Directorate of Partnership, Alumni and Global Initiatives (DKAUI) organized UGM Career Talks and Exploration # 7: “Working in Teams” seminar on Wednesday (14/9). This event is a part of seminars and workshops series in 2016, which has reached the seventh series. The event that was held at the UGM Central Library Seminar Room, 2nd Floor was attended by about 120 people who are final year students and alumni from various departments at UGM.
Attending as the speaker in this seminar is Haryanta, S.Psi., Psi., M.A., lecturer at the Faculty of Psychology UGM. He engaged participants to see how important it is to be able to work together in a team to achieve a common goal, in addition to improve individual quality.