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The occasional ‘live’ networking

Since the beginning of 2020 there has not been much opportunity for live networking. For Picture Perfect in this edition of MDBConnects, we can only share pictures from the comprehensive 2 - day program in Johor in August and the Annual General Meeting at DoubleTree Kuala Lumpur on 24 September.

58% FMCG & retail. of respondents are actively looking for a new job in the next 12 months.

Even as companies race to digitise their operations to enable professionals to work from home and ensure continued efficiency, COVID-19 has no doubt caused damage to the labour market.

Many organisations have gone into “survival mode” as the pandemic drags on, calculating the real financial impact COVID-19 has on their businesses. Compared to previous years, more employees have been affected by business closures or placed on shorter work hours or furloughs in quarter one this year. The COVID-19 Labour Pulse Survey is an online study conducted with 531 locally-based working professionals to understand their sentiments about the employment market thus far and how their career expectations have changed.

Out of the 58% respondents who said that they are actively looking for a job:

24% want to change their careers or the industries they work in 20% are unsatisfied with their salary and want a job that pays them more 13% said that their skills and experiences no longer match their current job requirements 5% said that their job scopes have changed too much due to COVID-19