Malaysian Talent LandscapeImran Kunalan

Director- Talent Enablement DivisionMDEC

Content

/ Malaysian Talent Landscape & Competiveness

/ ICT Talent Landscape/ ICT Talent Supply / FKW

• Established in 1996

• Owned and funded by the Government under the purview of by the Ministry of Communications & Multimedia

• MDeC also advises the Malaysian Government on legislation and policies with respect to ICT matters

MALAYSIAN DIGITAL ECONOMY CORPORATION

DRIVING TRANSFORMATION

MDEC’s Mandate

Develop, coordinate and promote Malaysia’s digital economy, information and communications technology (ICT) industry and the extensive use of ICT in MalaysiaPerintah Menteri-Menteri Kerajaan Persekutuan (No. 2), 2014

MALAYSIAN TALENT LANDSCAPE

MALAYSIA TALENT DASHBOARD

39/60countries

30/109Malaysia ranked 1st in upper middle income

Education & Workforce Distribution

ICT TALENT LANDSCAPE (SUPPLY) Existing Workforce

Business Activities66,810

Wholesales and Retail Trade462,420

Financial Services51,072

Manufacturing265,776

Construction37,323

Logistics18,378

Education24,510

Others285,064

Other327,952

Distribution of ICT Talent in the Industry EcosystemMSC Status Companies Employs more than 100K ICT professionals

Present ICT Skillsets of Existing Workforce

Data from MSC Malaysia ICT Talent Supply & Demand Study

13%

7%

5%

3%

3%

2%

2%

2%

1%

1%

Cisco

Open Standards Networking …

HP

Juniper

Nortel

Huawei

Checkpoint

Fortinet

Bluecoat

Avaya

18%16%

15%14%

12%11%

9%7%

6%5%

4%3%3%2%2%2%

1%1%1%

Java.NET

JavaScriptC/C++ / C#

PHPXMLASP

AJAXVB Script

FlashObjective C

UMLCOBOL

PerlPython Node.jsMATLAB

Ruby on RailsCocoa

17%

14%

12%

5%

4%

4%

2%

2%

MS SQL

MySQL

Oracle

MS Access

Sybase SQL

IBM DB2

PostgreSQL

NoSQL

Database

% of total employees in all companies surveyed(13,909) Source: Primary survey with Companies

Present ICT Skillsets of Existing WorkforceMSC InfoTech – Technical Skills

Networking & SecuritySoftware & App Development

Enterprise Resource Planning

% of total employees in all companies surveyed(13,909) Source: Primary survey with Companies

Present ICT Skillsets of Existing WorkforceMSC InfoTech – Technical Skills

Business Intelligence & AnalyticsOS & Server Technologies

5%

2%

1%

1%

1%

1%

Crystal Reports

SAS Business Analytics

SPSS

Micro Strategy

Cognos

Hyperion

23%10%

8%6%6%

5%5%5%5%5%

4%3%3%3%2%2%

2%2%2%

1%

Windows (98, …Android

Linux (Mandriva …iOS

Windows MobileVMWare

UnixJava ME / J2ME

IBM AS 400Apache

MS Exchange …MS IIS

IBMSharepoint

SolarisUbuntu

WebsphereColdFusion

BSDSymbian

3%

3%

2%

1%

1%

Oracle e-Business …

SAP Business All-in-One

MS Dynamics

SAP Business One

PeopleSoft

Finance

% of total employees in all companies surveyed(13,909) Source: Primary survey with Companies

Present ICT Skillsets of Existing WorkforceMSC InfoTech – Technical Skills

HR ManagementHardware Design & Embedded

Creative Multimedia

5%

5%

4%

4%

3%

2%

2%

1%

1%

Management in accounts …

Management in accounts …

Knowledge in accounting …

Procurement & stock control

Management in bank …

Tax filing & compliance

Auditing

Risk management …

Knowledge in investment …

6%

5%

5%

4%

3%

3%

1%

Recruitment & selection

Compensation & benefits

Training & development

Performance management

Career development / talent

Management

Industrial relation / employee relation

Change management

6%5%

2%1%1%1%

Embedd…Linux

Verilog VHDL

NetBSDOSGi

5%1%1%1%1%1%1%1%

Adobe Creative Suite …Autodesk Suite …

3D Flash AnimatorJoomla

Apple Final Cut …CorelDRAW Graphics …

Sony Sound ForgeOpenGL

Database

% of total employees in all companies surveyed(35,994) Source: Primary survey with Companies

Present ICT Skillsets of Existing WorkforceMSC SSO – Technical Skills

Networking & SecuritySoftware & Application Development

8%

3%

3%

2%

2%

2%

2%

1%

1%

1%

Cisco

Open Standards Networking …

Juniper

Checkpoint

Avaya

HP

Fortinet

Huawei

Nortel

Bluecoat

8%8%

5%5%

4%4%

3%2%2%2%2%2%

1%1%1%1%1%

JavaC/C++ / C#

.NETJavaScript

XMLPerlPHPASP

COBOLUML

AJAXVB ScriptMATLAB

FlashPython Node.js

Ruby on Rails

9%

8%

4%

1%

1%

1%

1%

MS SQL

Oracle

MySQL

MS Access

Sybase SQL

IBM DB2

PostgreSQL

Enterprise Resource Planning

Present ICT Skillsets of Existing WorkforceMSC SSO – Technical Skills

Business Intelligence & AnalyticsOS & Server Technologies

% of total employees in all companies surveyed(35,994) Source: Primary survey with Companies

2%

2%

2%

2%

Cognos

Crystal Reports

SPSS

SAS Business Analytics

8%

4%

4%

3%

3%

2%

2%

1%

1%

1%

1%1%

1%

1%

Windows (98, 2000, …

Linux (Mandriva …

VMWare

Unix

MS Exchange Server

MS IIS

Sharepoint

Apache

Java ME / J2ME

iOS

Websphere

Windows Mobile

Android

Ubuntu

6%

2%

2%

2%

1%

1%

SAP Business All-in-One

Oracle e-Business Suite

PeopleSoft

SAP Business One

MS Dynamics

Sage

Finance

Present ICT Skillsets of Existing WorkforceMSC SSO – Technical Skills

HR ManagementHardware Design & Embedded

% of total employees in all companies surveyed(35,994) Source: Primary survey with Companies

4%

4%

Verilog

VHDL

10%

8%

6%

4%

1%

1%

1%

Compensation & benefits

Training & development

Recruitment & selection

Industrial relation / employee relation

Career development /

talent Management

Performance management

Change management

6%

5%

3%

2%

2%

2%

1%

1%

Management in accounts …

Management in accounts …

Knowledge in accounting …

Tax filing & compliance

Auditing

Management in bank …

Procurement & stock …

Risk managemen…

ICT TALENT LANDSCAPE –(Supply) Institutions of Higher Learnings

4 Domain of Studies in IHLsComputers

scienceSoftware

EngineeringInformation Technology

Information System

Computer Science spans a wide range, from its theoretical and algorithmic foundations to cutting edge developments in Robotics, Computer Vision, Intelligent Systems, Bioinformatics, Forensic Computing and other exciting areas. It involves designing and implementing software, devising new ways to use computers and developing effective ways to solve computing problems.

Software Engineering is the discipline of developing and maintaining software systems that behave reliably and efficiently, is affordable to develop and maintain and built to customers’ specifications. It has evolved in response to factors such as the growing impact of large scale software systems in a wide range of situations and the increased importance of software in safety-critical applications.

Information Technology in the broadest sense refers to all aspects of computing. However, in academia, it often refers to meeting the technological needs of business, government, healthcare, schools, and other kinds of organisations through the selection, creation, application, integration and administration of computing technologies.

Information Systems integrate Information Technology solutions and business processes to meet the information needs of businesses and other enterprises, enabling them to achieve their objectives in effective, efficient ways. This discipline’s perspective on Information Technology emphasisesInformation, and views technology as an instrument for generating, processing and distributing information.

Supply of ICT Talent from the IHLsIPTA IPTS

Polytechnic**

* Student intake trend above is based on MOE stats for each individual course; only courses relevant to this study are included** Data for Community College is not available for 2010 & 2011, hence, only data for Polytechnic is shown above

Engineering

IT

Business

Arts & CMM The local institutions of higher learnings produces around

9,000ICT graduates annually

Supply of ICT Talent from the IHLs

ICT TALENT ( FKW)

FKW in MSC Status Companies

Top FWK Source Countries

10819

296919151884

733 604 521 462 452 367 277 261 186 185 166 121 113 97 81

2846

MSC ACTIVE FKW

Talent Enablement DivisionTalent Development Interventions

STRATEGIC INTERVENTION ROADMAPShort Term2016 - 2017

Mid Term2018-2020

Long Term2021 and beyond

INDU

STRY

To move from poaching to coaching

TERT

IARY

Improve graduate employability by working with IHLs, EPU and MoE to match student quality & quantity

To develop the talent pool from TVETs

SCHO

OLS Exposure & awareness to

digital tools at early age

Raise awareness of new digital career opportunities

Continue with current professional certification program i.e. MyProCert

Digital.Tech @ Schools: Computing skills embedded in school curriculum

Develop a sustainable industry-led development model

“e-Aspirasi” Campaign to promote ICT as a career

TALENT DEVELOPMENT

IMPACT

1

To increase quantity supplied by top universities and for the rest of the universities to emulate best practices of these top universities

Develop TVET ICT graduates to increase diploma & certificate employability

2

3

4

5

6

CREATING SUSTAINABLE TALENT PIPELINE

Digital Tech @ Schools

e-Aspirasi

TVET

Inc. IntakeGrad Emp

MyProCertSustainable

TalentDev Model

Schools IHLs Companies

Track 6

Track 5 Track 4

Track 3

Track 1 Track 21 2

3

45

6

On going On going On going On going TBD

Appendix

LinkedIn Skills Cluster

Top job functions

5.9M members on LinkedIn in New York

Top industries

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Here are the standout skills in Malaysian Workforce

Unique skills to Malaysia

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