Recruiting firms use new age talent scouting


Unusual method: Students building a prototype of a model during a team building game organised by HP Malaysia Manufacturing Sdn Bhd at the KDU Penang University College job fair.

GEORGE TOWN: About 600 graduating students at a job fair here were subjected to a new era of talent scouting whereby they had to solve 10 mental and physical challenges.

Among them was how to build shockproof armour for an egg with only straws and sticky tape as well as how to build a prototype model of a structure by just observing and visualising it.

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