INTERACTIVE: New jobs aplenty, but many only offer up to RM2k salaries


Jobseekers making enquiries at the career carnival. — Bernama

PETALING JAYA: The number of new jobs recorded in Malaysia’s official employment services portal went up last year as economic activity gathered pace after Covid-19 lockdown, but the biggest growth in new openings was for jobs that only offered salaries of RM2,000 or less.

According to the Social Security Organisation’s (Socso) Employment Insurance System (EIS) report, job vacancies recorded in the MyFutureJobs portal grew by 232.8% to 2,480,577 openings in 2021 compared to 745,304 in 2020.

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