Huawei recruitment drive

After successfully employing a total of seven alumni who possess good work ethics from UTAR last year, Huawei United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Huawei Middle East (ME) returned for another recruitment drive from 24 to 29 March 2016 at both UTAR Kampar and Sungai Long Campuses.

The positive attributes of UTAR alumni at work had greatly impressed Huawei and ensured they came back to look for potential graduating students to be recruited. This time round they were mainly seeking telecommunications engineers, but still keep an eye out for potential candidates for other positions. Huawei is a global technology company supplying telecommunications and networking equipment and solutions, and is also a collaborative partner of UTAR.  

This year, the selection was made based on two exclusive interview sessions, namely a group interview and an individual interview where more than 100 eligible year three students from various faculties partook in to expose themselves to this huge career opportunity.

The candidates were tested on their knowledge of Telecommunications, Computer Technology, Information Technology, and Wireless Communications, and Automation. Apart from that, the students were also tested on their presentation skills, language competency, and ability to work together and communicate in a multicultural setting.

The recruitment drive was monitored by Vice-President of Huawei UAE Yu Junkui, Human Resource Director of Huawei UAE Zhang Huaqiao, Service Solution Speciallist of Huawei UAE Huang Hun, Procurement Manager of Huawei UAE Oon Hsu Zhen, Director of Huawei ME Network Technological Department Zhang Honghua, and Human Resource Speciallist of Huawei ME Mu Siqin.

“We would like to thank UTAR for providing us with talented individuals who will be the backbone of our company in the future. The good qualities of UTAR graduates such as dual language competency, communication skills, organisational skills, and good discipline has impressed us to be here again to recruit more UTAR graduates,” said Honghua. He added, “Today’s recruitment session is open to all and it was also aimed to spread more information about Huawei and its corporate culture to more UTAR students.”

Apart from that, a career talk was also held in conjunction with the recruitment drive. More than 100 students participated in the career talk to enlighten themselves more about Huawei and its working culture. Also present at the career talk were Deputy Dean for Student Development and Industrial Training of Faculty of Information and Communication Technology (FICT) Dr Choo Peng Yin, FICT lecturer Wong See Wan, and Deputy Director of Centre for Foundation Studies Lim Jit Theam.

Eligible candidates at the registration booth

Group interview

Seated, from left: Huang, Oon, Huaqiao, Honghua, Yu, Dr Choo, Wong, Lim, and Mu with UTAR students after the career talk