Assalamualaikum and good morning dear tutors,

The updates that we have for the school community during this staff contact time:

• The team has seen 235 sets of students and their parents during the span of three days of Open Day

• Only 60% of L6 students have filled in their student profile form. We will send links for group tutors to forward to your tutor groups soon.

• Cg Hafiz was invited and sponsored by CityUHK for a Counsellor Fly-In Programme (on CTG) from the 2nd March to the 6th March 2025

• We have done a 55min L6 Talk every block on the 10th March 2025 entitled "Should I Stay or Should I Go? (to Poli/IBTE)" 

• We have done a 55min motivational U6 Talk every block on the 13th March 2025 entitled "Make Your Year Count"

• We are happy to announce our newest member Rabi'atul Rathiah binti Mohd Yussof to our Careers Team. Thank you Cg Hjh Salwa and Admin for allowing the transfer.

• We continue to maintain an active recruitment programme so if you're interested in joining us, do let us know :)

Thank you and feel free to talk to us should you have any further questions :)

Also,

We know U6 Assessment arrangements are currently underway,

Just a kind reminder, the careers team are temporary and not full-time caretakers of the Home Science Room (HSR). Hence, should you wish to book the room for use:

1. Only afternoon slots are available after 2pm as it is still a fully-functioning office until 2pm.

2. Book via Academic Section's record calendar

3. Collect keys to rear entrance on the day or the day before (provided no one else is using before you)

4. Access room only via rear entrance only

5. Light switches are only available via the Finance Section (please liaise with them)

6. Ensure all three Aircons are switched off after use (controls are located next to the main door)

7. Switch off lights (If Finance Section is closed, please inform security)

8. Return keys at the earliest opportunity to Academic Section for the next user

Thank you in advance for your kind cooperation

Sincerely,

Careers Team,

Hafizuddin Hassan

Syahmi Suferi

Sharon Ong

Rahmat Tarsat

Rabi'atul Rathiah binti Mohd Yussof

Assalamualaikum and good morning dear tutors,

The updates that we have for the school community during this staff contact time:

• We would like to thank all the tutors who have filled in the students predicted grades and references. It is highly appreciated. Your predicted grades will decide who will access our potential scholars briefing and workshops and your references will help their university applications.

Our important deadlines this January:

• 15th January - IUMC (Medicine@Ireland)

• 29th January - UCAS (UK Universities)

• For tutors who have not completed the predicted grades and references, please do try and we will chase after you on a needs basis. We do have student alumni's coming in every now and then and asking for references for various things including scholarship opportunities as well as courses and programmes. Thank you for your understanding.

• We are still looking for a replacement for our beloved Lim Chien Hau :)

Once again, thank you and feel free to talk to us should you have any further questions :)

Sincerely,

Careers Team,

Hafizuddin Hassan

Lim Chien Hau

Syahmi Suferi

Sharon Ong

Rahmat Tarsat

Assalamualaikum and good morning dear tutors,

The updates that we have for the school community during this staff contact time:

• As of November 30th: 

• we have processed 3 students applying for early UCAS application, specifically for Medicine & Genetics.

• we have processed 2 students for external scholarships from CityU Hong Kong & Hong Kong University (HKU)

• we are currently processing 1 student for external scholarship from New York University Abu Dhabi

• we are currently tracking 45 students as our potential scholars for govt and private scholarships and loans

• We would like to thank all the tutors who have filled in the students predicted grades and references. It is highly appreciated. Your predicted grades will decide who will access our potential scholars briefing and workshops and your references will help their university applications.

• For tutors who have not completed the predicted grades and references, please do try and we will chase after you on a needs basis. We do have student alumni's coming in every now and then and asking for references for various things including scholarship opportunities as well as courses and programmes. Thank you for your understanding.

• We are still looking for a replacement for our beloved Lim Chien Hau :)

Once again, thank you and feel free to talk to us should you have any further questions :)

Sincerely,

Careers Team,

Hafizuddin Hassan

Lim Chien Hau

Syahmi Suferi

Sharon Ong

Rahmat Tarsat

Assalamualaikum and good afternoon dear tutors,

The updates that we have for the school community during this staff contact time:

• As of October 15th, we have processed 3 students applying for early UCAS application, specifically for Medicine & Genetics.

• Currently, we are processing 2 potential scholars for external scholarships from New York University Abu Dhabi & Hong Kong Universities.

• We would like to thank all the tutors who have filled in the students predicted grades and references. It is highly appreciated. Your predicted grades will decide who will access our potential scholars briefing and workshops and your references will help their university applications.

• For tutors who have not completed the predicted grades and references, please do so by this Thursday, 7th November. We do have student alumni's coming in every now and then and asking for references for various things including scholarship opportunities as well as courses and programmes. Thank you for your understanding.

Once again, thank you and feel free to talk to us should you have any further questions :)

Sincerely,

Careers Team,

Hafizuddin Hassan

Lim Chien Hau

Syahmi Suferi

Sharon Ong

Rahmat Tarsat

Assalamualaikum and good morning dear Tutors,

Alhamdulillah, the school's Careers Day 2024, which is our team's biggest one-day event, has been successfully held last Thursday, 25th July 2024. The Careers Team would like to express our deepest gratitude to all those involved either directly or indirectly in contributing to our school's Careers Day this year.

We would like to express our sincerest thanks specifically to the following sections and departments:

• Administration Team, especially the Principal and Deputy Principals, members and clerks for facilitating heavily in the planning and preparation of our event beforehand including for preparation of minutes and letters to parents, signing of certificates, provision of resources and facilities including venues, tables and fans. We would also like to extend our thanks to the Supporting Staff including cleaners and security personnel for their support.

• Finance Section, in facilitating the financial requirements for the event including for tokens of appreciation for our guest speakers and catering needs for our exhibitors and guests.

• Student Affairs Section (HEP), in providing manpower from their student council (MPP) members as well as media. 

• Counselling Section, in providing PRR Career members for ushering and crowd control as well as media.

• CCA Section, in assisting with tournament arrangements regarding clearing venues.

• Registration section, and all Group Tutors for their understanding and assistance in taking attendance during the day in their respective classrooms as well as disseminating our posters running up to the event.

• Academic Section, for allowing our students to follow the shortened IDEAL timetable and usage of Home Science Room

• All tutors and students who have given their kind support in making our event this year a success including those who voluntarily attended the morning and afternoon talks and participated in the meet and greet exhibition.

Lastly, we would like to apologise for any shortcomings on our part. We welcome constructive criticisms and would love to hear your feedback so that we can make our school's Careers Day even better in the future. Feel free to approach any of us with your comments. We have included some information below with regards to the event for the purpose of transparency including the link to students raw attendance. 

Once more, we cannot thank all of you enough for making PTEM's Careers Day 2024 a success. We have received feedback from various stakeholders and most have been positive. This is a success for all of us as a school. Thank you!

Sincerely,

Hafizuddin Hassan

Lim Chien Hau

Syahmi Suferi

Sharon Ong

Rahmat Tarsat

Full Transparency (Careers Day 2024):

1. 17th October 2023 - Unit Pendidikan Kerjaya (UPnK) posts available dates for 'Program Eksplorasi Kerjaya 2024'. Dates offered are as follows on a 'first book first confirmed' basis amongst all the PTE's:

• 10 June 2024

• 11 June 2024

• 13 June 2024

• 24 June 2024

• 27 June 2024

• 1 July 2024

• 2 July 2024

• 4 July 2024

• 11 July 2024

• 22 July 2024

• 23 July 2024

• 25 July 2024

• 29 July 2024

• 30 July 2024

These dates are offered by UPnK after exhaustive negotiations with external stakeholders based on their availability. It is the HE representative's available time during Fresher's Week. 

2. 17th October 2023 - 24th October 2023 - Careers team negotiates with PTEM school stakeholders especially Administration (Principal & Deputy Principals) and Academic to confirm the date based on our school's working calendar next year.

3. 25th October 2023 - Careers team confirms with both UPnK and School administration that Careers Day 2024 will be held on the 25th July 2024, after U6 Mock Exams and before school term holiday. This will be included and has been included in the 2024 PTEM school calendar which is available in your school handbook.

4. Early July 2024 - Preparations are made to ensure success of the event with relevant internal and external stakeholders

5. 25th July 2024 - Careers Day 2024 executed by Careers Team. We try our best to minimise lesson disruptions by adopting the IDEAL timetable where lessons still continue to run.

Link to raw attendance 

(for viewing only, you may download if you would like to manipulate the data): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ULdOuKw3UvzWyCVZRY6wC2kBMm5KnoM637WSDGLiCo8/edit?usp=sharing 

Full Transparency (in hosting external career talks/events):

Regular procedures (SOP):

1. Receive memo from JSS/UPnK stating that the school has to accommodate an external stakeholder

2. Liaise with school administration (particularly Deputy Principal Academic to which we directly report to) for the best possible date as well as the best arrangement and target audience. The school would usually try to combine with other events required by other sections if possible to minimise disruptions (for example, adopting IDEAL timetable).

3. Deputy Principal Academic confirms with Principal.

4. Careers Team executes event.

Link to raw attendance 

(for viewing only, you may download if you would like to manipulate the data): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ULdOuKw3UvzWyCVZRY6wC2kBMm5KnoM637WSDGLiCo8/edit?usp=sharing 

Full Transparency (in hosting internal career talks/events):

Regular procedures (SOP):

1. The Careers Team identifies the need to run this event in order to address and enhance students awareness and college readiness.

2. Liaise with school administration (particularly Deputy Principal Academic to which we directly report to) for the best possible date as well as the best arrangement and target audience. The school would usually try to combine with other events required by other sections if possible to minimise disruptions (for example, adopting IDEAL timetable).

3. Deputy Principal Academic confirms with Principal.

4. Careers Team executes event.

Link to raw attendance 

(for viewing only, you may download if you would like to manipulate the data): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ULdOuKw3UvzWyCVZRY6wC2kBMm5KnoM637WSDGLiCo8/edit?usp=sharing 

Assalamualaikum and good morning dear Tutors,

Alhamdulillah, the school's Careers Day 2023, which is our team's biggest one-day event, has been successfully held last Thursday, 14th September 2023. The Careers Team would like to express our deepest gratitude to all those involved either directly or indirectly in contributing to our school's Careers Day this year.

We would like to express our sincerest thanks specifically to the following sections and departments:

• Administration Team, especially the Principal and Deputy Principals, members and clerks for facilitating heavily in the planning and preparation of our event beforehand including for preparation of minutes and letters to parents, signing of certificates, provision of resources and facilities including venues, tables and fans. We would also like to extend our thanks to the Supporting Staff including cleaners and security personnel for their support.

• Finance Section, in facilitating the financial requirements for the event including for tokens of appreciation for our guest speakers and catering needs for our exhibitors and guests.

• Student Affairs Section (HEP), in providing manpower from their student council (MPP) members. 

• Counselling Section, in providing PRR Career members for ushering and crowd control.

• Food Studies Department, in providing kitchen utensils and tablecloths.

• CCA Section, in assisting with club arrangements regarding venue. We would like to specifically thank the Dodgeball Club and the Badminton Club for their understanding and assistance.

• Registration section, and all Group Tutors for their understanding and assistance in taking attendance at the respective venues.

• Academic Section, for allowing our students to follow the shortened IDEAL timetable and also helping us fill in the gap in our kitchen utensil requirements.

• All tutors and students who have given their kind support in making our event this year a success.

Lastly, we would like to apologise for any shortcomings on our part. We welcome constructive criticisms and would love to hear your feedback so that we can make our school's Careers Day even better in the future. Feel free to approach any of us with your comments. Oncemore, we cannot thank all of you enough for making PTEM's Careers Day 2023 a success. We have received feedback from various stakeholders and most have been positive. This is a success for all of us as a school. Thank you!

Sincerely,

Hafizuddin Hassan

Lim Chien Hau

Syahmi Suferi

Sharon Ong

Dk Ida Iryani Pg Dr Hj Abu Bakar

Assalamualaikum and good morning dear Tutors,

The Careers Team has an update for all tutors regarding *letters of recommendations* for our students who are applying for the new *JPMC College of Health Sciences Nursing Diploma Scholarship* starting this year onwards.

Applying students need *two* letters of recommendation and the Careers Team will prepare one of them as part of the school's official letter of recommendation.

• For U6 leavers who are applying, we will base it on the U6 references collected through the regular yearly collection of references process. If their references are empty, we will ask tutors to fill in their references.

• For U6, their only feasible option is to get a letter of recommendation from one of their subject tutors.  

• It is your prerogative whether or not to agree to write one, and the Careers section are more than happy to provide a template for you to use.

• But do know that without this second letter of recommendation, it will disadvantage their application.

• For L6 students who are applying, our advice is that they go to their previous school's career section and subject tutors. If that is not possible, then the team will go around and have a chat with all their PTEM tutors for a quick character confirmation.

As far as possible, if the career members find that one of our own students are applying, we will take care of both letters of recommendation, but if this is not the case, then we hope you can help your students out in their application.

As this is new this year and will most likely continue in future years, we hope for you kind understanding on the matter. Thank you 

Sincerely,

Hafizuddin Hassan

Good afternoon dear tutors,

From the Careers Team, we would like to mention a few things this afternoon:

• First of all, thank you to all tutors involved during open day for your cooperation and understanding especially with regards to our section Careers. We tried our best to give the best subject combination for students given their grades, ambitions and your subject requirements. 

Open day mostly ran smoothly so well done to all of us and thank you for your live updates as well as feedback. We have updated the form for next year for you to give live updates for your subject and we will take that into account when we give advice to students.

Thank you as well for all your feedback and we will use them to improve our service in the future. We are also planning to mark with an asterix* for problematic cases on the students form instead of updating you the code numbers. 

Lastly, thank you to all sections and departments involved for helping us run our part so smoothly during open day this year.

• Thank you as well to all group tutors for forwarding our programmes and activities to your students especially the recent Sakura Programme. There is one more coming up this Saturday for you to forward. We have been getting students to voluntarily join them, which is good. I will continue to forward opportunities to students and it is up to them if they want to grab them or not.

• There are talks and programmes scheduled in the future and I would like to thank you all in advance for your kind understanding and cooperation.

• This year for our previous batch of students, out of the 52 potential scholars we asked references for, 35 of them were interested in applying via UCAS but only 27 sent their application and as results came out, we expect this number to reduce further and we are currently now awaiting news from the scholarship section around June 2023. But of course, the references are not only for them, but to any of our students coming back to us to ask for references in the future which is why it is important for all of us to continue to provide those references as we do not know who will be needing references in the future to further studies or as character reference. 

We are also currently running Multi-Mini-Interview (MMI) practice sessions with our potential scholars. 

• Lastly, a shameless self-promo from me, as you might already know or have experienced firsthand, the Careers Section are always actively looking for new members to join us so if you are interested to know how much fun it is to work in Careers, just come over and ask us and we'll serve you coffee/tea :) We work hard but we also take our downtime seriously. Pursue a satisfying, gratifying and rewarding career in Careers in the near future and inquire today :P

• We have provided you with the latest student statistics below based on a questionnaire sent to our alumni for the year 2020-2021. To that, I wish to congratulate all the tutors here for all your hard work in helping our students transition to the next stage in their lives. Nonetheless, I am sure we would like to continue to help our students achieve greater heights in the future.

Sincerely,

Hafizuddin Hassan

Good afternoon dear tutors,

From the Careers Section, we would like to mention a few things this afternoon as we want to be transparent with all of you:

• We are sharing with you guidelines for tutors (shown above) dispensing career advice as we believe you are your students' first port of call for seeking Career Advice. You now have the digital copy given to you via the link we have provided on our PTEM Staff Whatsapp group. You also have the hard copy in your respective pigeonhole.

• We have also given all the U6 students a Careers Booklet hard copy that contains a checklist of all of the important things they need to do, all of the Careers planning information they can access and all the important dates that they need to be aware of. This is to ensure that students will be aware of the deadlines, especially deadlines for HECAS. 

• Also, if you are an U6 group tutor and haven't returned the signature slips for student receipt of booklets and Google Classroom signups, please do so at the earliest opportunity. We do note the challenges of doing so during this time but eventually we need the full record of students signing up for accountability to Unit Kerjaya, Kementerian Pendidikan.

• We have provided you with the latest student statistics based on a questionnaire sent to our alumni for the year 2019-2020. To that, I wish to congratulate all the tutors here for all your hard work in helping our students transition to the next stage in their lives. Nonetheless, I am sure we would like to continue to help our students achieve greater heights in the future.

• One way to help achieve that by helping complete students references which we will issue after results come out and will be due by the end of October.

• We would also like to inform that there is a PKBN Talk conducted for upper 6 students on 22nd September which was supposed to be our Careers Symposium date but will not be happening this year. There will be some disruptions that day to the timetable but this is required for all U6 students throughout the country.

• Last but not least, if there are students that you feel have potential or would like to encourage to pursue scholarship, please feel free to drop by our office for a chat and coffee. We are always open to having a chat with you about our students.

Sincerely,

Wan Farah Latif

This is the latest update we have from our students of 2020-2021: 

• Out of a total of 254 students, only 57 students responded to our latest alumni questionnaire. 

• 2 students are taking a gap year (retaking A-levels)

• 1 student has been working since they left PTEM in 2021 and don't intend to go to higher education

• The majority are studying in local universities

• 3 students obtained scholarships

• 1 student obtained loan scheme

We are still awaiting the complete list of scholarship and loan students for the 2021-2022 batch so we are unable to share that information with you as of now. We are expecting news some time in June 2023.