MyMAHIR Poised To Be Workforce Skills Training Guidelines - Sim

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 18 ( Bernama) -- MyMAHIR's comprehensive digital platform developed to equip Malaysian talent with skills for the future will be a guideline on industry trends, job roles, required skills, career paths, and training programmes available in various sectors.

Human Resources Minister Steven Sim said by integrating the results of Talent Corporation Malaysia Berhad's (TalentCorp) Impact Study on artificial intelligence (Al), digitalisation and the green economy, the platform will function as a centralised resource, as well as a skills taxonomy to help stakeholders prepare a workforce for future changes.

"We will launch the MyMAHIR portal which has the concept of providing new skills training and will then be standardised with the MyFuture Job portal.

"MyMAHIR is geared towards issues related to trend analysis and a portal for skills training while MyFuture Job provides information about job opportunities that will be matched according to the skills that have been learned," he said after the launch of the Impact Study on Artificial Intelligence, Digitalisation and the Green Economy on the Malaysian Workforce, here today.

The MyMAHIR platform was developed by TalentCorp with a primary focus on identifying critical skills and co-creating customised training programmes.

Touching on the impact study, Sim said it is to prepare the Malaysian workforce to face the future by assessing the extent to which AI, digitalisation and the green economy affect various economic sectors.

He said with a mandate from the Ministry of Human Resources (KESUMA) as the ministry's strategic thinker, TalentCorp supports policy development and long-term planning to maintain the competitiveness of Malaysia's workforce.

He said the first phase of the study focused on 10 main sectors including aerospace, chemicals, electricity and electronics as well as energy and power.

He explained that this is because the sectors concerned contribute around 60 per cent of the country's Gross Domestic Product, which is about RM933 billion, and employs 31 percent of skilled and semi-skilled workforce who are selected based on economic importance and potential for innovation and sustainability.

"This study serves as an important road map to equip the workforce with skills that remain strong into the future, to ensure durability and adaptability in the face of rapid change," he said.

According to him, the first phase of the study was also organised in five main stages starting with uniting the roles and skills of the 10 main sectors to identify gaps that exist.

This is followed by evaluating the impact of Al, digitalisation, and the green economy on these roles, he said.

He added that the focus on the relevant sectors helps to identify workforce goals such as improving specific skills, re-skilling, bridging the skills gap and aligning training with international standards to strengthen the resilience and competitiveness of the economy.

-- BERNAMA