Follow your PASSION...

Are you passionate about your life, especially your career? What are you really passionate about? How do you incorporate those passions into your life? These are the important questions that closely linked to the happiness and overall contentment. I believe that everyone has their own passion. Same goes to me. 

I have my own passion, which is to deliver something or sharing something that I know with someone else. Because of this, I really enjoy myself sharing something with other people. For example in Vision, we do have to deliver the best thing to the college right? Each of the team plays important roles in order to achieve the objectives. I am really enjoying my work in Vision. I have been exposed to so many departments before I ended up as one of the HR staff here. I have also been doing Sales & Marketing which was quite challenging for me. After all, the most important thing is doing it with passion. Besides that, I picked up a part time job as a private tutor ever since I was a final year student back in UPM until today. Because of my passion towards giving and sharing knowledge, the word "tired" or "tiredness" is not in my vocabulary. I enjoy having the best of both world; as a HR and also a private tutor. 

It has always been a satisfaction when the students understood the lessons and our teachings. For other people, it may seem like an extra income of doing  another job. But for me, I do it because of my passion. Whether we're thinking about starting a small business, doing part time jobs, or just thinking about which career path to choose; it's important that we follow our passion. What any of us often failed to include in this recipe of success is "passion". Passion should not be underestimated.

When we are enthusiastic and proud of the work we do, we equipped ourselves towards overcoming obstacles that will surely arise in building up a career. Also, the more enthusiasm we have, the more inclined we are to work harder at improving ourselves. This will allow us to continuously get better at the work we do. Ensuring that we are passionate about our work and tasks will not only provide us with meaningful career, but it also give us a good chance of being paid well. The passion we have towards our job differentiates between "making a living" and "making a killing".

Loving and enjoying the work we do will never stop us from getting the work done. You will feel unstoppable and nothing can obstruct you from achieving the success. Passion ignites our work; and like a rocket, it accelerates us through obstacles or whatever negativity that we are facing.

True success worth more than having a lot of money. Enjoying the work you do is, in some ways more important than having a large bank account. Plus, if you enjoy the work you do, there's a greater chance that you will do great at work and made high contributions to the company. 

So, cheers everyone! =)

Prepared by,

Fatheen Nadira bt Ghazali

Human Resource Executive

Vision College

Hiking: It's a Climb!

We all find our lives becoming a little dull sometimes. the days become mundane and we seek something more interesting. Nobody hopes to look back on their lives and reminisce fondly about how boring it was. I've gone through the same issues in my life too. I said to myself, this is the right time to pick up a new hobby. Normally we choose a hobby that fulfills our time in a good and fun way. At the same time, the new hobby must involve some physical activities and new adventures. As for me, I couldn't find any hobbies that suits me; until I came across to the fact that my uncle is a hiker.

Through him, I learned few things about hiking. He also showed me some of his hiking pictures. I was amazed by the scenery captured by him. Since I've never hike before, my uncle decided to take me hiking for the first time ever. So, I prepared myself mentally and physically, bought myself a new pair of sport shoes, backpack, and other necessary equipment. 

Alas, the day has come. I followed him to Bukit Gasing Forest Park, along with his friends who are professional hikers. Oh, they even conduct classes for amateur hikers (how cool is that?). The hiking was so tiring, yet worthy. Especially when you reached at the peak and witnessed the sun rise. It was such a beautiful feeling when you get to witnessed God's creation through our naked eyes. From that moment, I realised that I have to add hiking to my current hobby list.

The first experience is always the best, and you will definitely get the best of both worlds! It'll motivate you to keep moving, and at the same time you'll get to witness the beauty of nature. 

So, what are you waiting for? If you are interested to be a hiker, you may contact the person-in-charge below.

See you at the top! 

Prepared by,

Kalaiarasi A/P Nadarajan

Lecturer, Diploma of Health Science

Vision College

A Giant Leap for a Brand New Experience

I wanted to share with you the career transition from a financial institution to an education sector. I used to work in a financial institution for a few years before I took a leap of faith into education line. There are a lot of differences between those two industries in almost every aspect of work. However, I will only touch on  a few here.

During my previous job, I was a Risk Management Officer. My task was mainly to investigate incidents that occurred every month, the loss incurred, how to recover the loss and to chase all H.O.D to submit monthly report to me. The summary was presented during monthly top management meeting. Other than that, we do perform Internal Audit & Risk Framework. The most interesting thing about this job is that I am able to travel to other offices/branches when carrying out investigations. I don't do similar things every day, and getting to know a lot of people while representing Malaysia in some international conferences. 

The not so fun things about the job is definitely super high stressed, investigating is not an easy task to do as I need to look back the process flow from the beginning to find gap that causes the error to happened and to suggest ways to mitigate the risk. I was having a good life before, but I left it all of that just to complete my thesis, which I have already extended 1 semester for it. Plus, I kind of feel that I have been working too long in that company. I needed some fresh air. 

After completing my studies. I decided to tap into different industry, be it Oil & Gas, Real Estate etc. And there was Vision College, a step into education line. To be honest, I never heard of Vision College before. It was an unfamiliar small college located near my house because when people talk about education institutions in Kelana Jaya, the name Unitar will always popped up. 

I had a totally different experience in Vision College. Though it is a small college, but it has been surviving for the past 12 years. To my surprise, it has good courses like Diploma in Medical Imaging, Diploma in Nursing and even Postgraduate Diploma in Ultrasonography.  And now, they have Diploma in Law Enforcement.

Working with Vision College gave me a mixture of feelings, but as time goes by I started to feel enjoyed being part of them. I used to be among the youngest in my previous department and suddenly the opposite way here. Other than that, they don't have a proper system for everything, most are being done manually. After all, Vision College is still a growing company, all of that will come through time. 

My current job allows me to travel across the country but not to those tourist spots but mainly deep into all the rural areas which I never heard of before. I am like an explorer, finding potential students every time I'm on the field. Recruiting new students more or less reminds me of my study time as a student leader. Doing consultation, helping out with their problems and dealing with the parents is basically the same thing I did before. 

I love the job that I'm doing now, it gave me a pleasure seeing all these kids decided to change their future by pursuing their studies. Watching them grow and becoming a much more responsible person is the best gift in life for me. Thanks Vision for that.

Moreover, I get to know all of the staff here unlike my previous company there were thousands of staff and I barely know half of them. The people are very nice here and young; like me. Because of that, I also become a much more playful person. I guess it must be the young blood that runs through my veins. Last but not least, I never had a chance to work in a small company before. It is actually very good for starters. You will get to learn a lot of things, multitasking. All of this will definitely help you in building a good career ahead. Just spend a couple of years then you're good to go. 

In summary, I do experienced a lot here, I have a good and very young team and I love them so much, I get a chance to travel, I rarely get sick, and I even developed a whole new experience that I never faced before. Working, be it in education, financial institutions or anywhere are mostly the same. It is all about how you manage yourself, how you handle the situation and to cope with the environment. I do miss my life as a young corporate, but I am more keen to learn more about education industry and how far it can take me to.

Prepared by,

Zhafri Zanuri

Course Counselor

Vision College