The Importance of an Engineering Degree

Nowadays, engineering course has enlisted as a popular course other than medicine and law. Engineering students don’t need to work more hard when want produce a product because the technology now has become more advanced like the other country who had produce many of their brand products. Most of the things surrounding us in our daily life are produce by the engineers such as cars, computers, buildings, phones, machines and others. Our country, Malaysia needs an engineer that can produce a product to make our country’s financial risen. It is also to compete with other countries who are more advanced in engineering course. Therefore, a lot of engineering universities had been built no matter in overseas or locals to produce many engineers. Almost thousands of graduates that have a degree in engineering course that have been produced by universities every year. But having a degree in engineering course does not guarantee that you will secure your dream engineering job. Sometime your inherent weakness turn employers off during interview.

Nobody is perfect in this world. Everyone has their own weakness including me. One of my potential weaknesses I may have that prevent me from getting employment is communication skills. Often I'm afraid to speak in English due to fear of my grammar and pronunciation are wrong. When being asked a question, I’m afraid to speak up my answers or ideas. The second potential weakness is critical thinking and problem solving. Sometimes I takes time to thinking on how to solve a problem and I can’t solve it in a few minutes. If suddenly being asked a question on “how” “why” and “what”, I don’t think that I can response it in a given time. Then, the other potential weakness is experience. Many people think that they shouldn’t include unpaid experience such as school and volunteer work in their resume for interview. However, experience, paid or not, is still experience as long as they can relate it to the job that they are applying for.