AWANBIRU Technology Bhd (AWANTEC) has joined the Menteri Besar Selangor Incorporated (MBI Selangor) today in a virtual launch of the Selangor Kerjaya programme that endeavours to provide skills training and job placement for 10,000 job-seeking Selangorians.
An initiative by the Selangor State Government, the programme aims to drive the state economy forward through elevating the skills sets of workforce and effective career matching for employees and employers.
The ‘Train & Place’ segment of the programme which strives to mitigate the impact of job losses caused by the COVID-19 pandemic will be implemented by the AWANTEC group.
AWANTEC Group started mobilisation of the Selangor Kerjaya programme in November 2020 when its wholly-owned subsidiary Prestariang Systems Sdn Bhd won a contract from MBI which is valued at about RM50 mil based on the actual number of candidates successfully trained and placed.
The three-year programme is set to benefit 10,000 job seeking Selangorians with the 2021 target being to provide 2,000 job opportunities that will be filled by both graduates from institutes of higher learning and high school graduates, including vocational academy and retrenched workforce.
“AWANTEC will provide profiling, upskilling and job placement as well as analytics, intelligence and digitalisation to the Selangor state government,” the company pointed out. “This will give advantage to the state in strategic economic planning and improve employment opportunities of its residence in future.”
Since its business transformation in December 2020, AWANTEC has emerged as a significant managed services partner to global technology players in cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) products and services such as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS), and Anything as a Service (XaaS). – Jan 26, 2021
