Guides

Hiring in Malaysia and Singapore, written down.

Practical guides on screening, notice periods and hiring software, in English and Bahasa Malaysia.

• Screening

  How to screen two hundred applicants for one role

  A role that attracts two hundred applicants does not have a sorting problem. It has an arithmetic problem, and most of the advice written about it quietly assumes somebody else is doing the hours.

  10 Sept 2026

• Screening

  The questions a first round actually has to answer

  Most first-round question lists are built to sound thorough. A first round is not an interview. It exists to answer a small number of questions that decide whether a real interview is worth anyone booking.

  10 Sept 2026

• AI in hiring

  Is an AI screening interview fair to the candidate?

  The honest answer is that it depends entirely on what the AI is allowed to decide, and most of the argument about it never gets as far as asking.

  10 Sept 2026

• AI in hiring

  What is an AI interviewer, and what does it actually do?

  An AI interviewer holds the first conversation with a job applicant so that a recruiter does not have to. What matters is what it asks, what it is allowed to decide, and what a candidate has to do to finish it.

  12 Sept 2026

• Screening

  Why candidates ghost interviews, and how to get fewer no-shows

  Most ghosting is not bad manners. It is a candidate quietly choosing a faster process, and the gap it fills is usually the days between applying and hearing anything back.

  12 Sept 2026

• Malaysia law

  Notice period buyout in Malaysia: how it works and how it is calculated

  A buyout lets someone leave without serving their notice, by paying for the part they do not serve. Section 13 of the Employment Act sets the rule, and most of the confusion comes from never reading it.

  12 Sept 2026

• Malaysia law

  Notice period during probation in Malaysia: what the law actually says

  The Employment Act does not mention probation at all. The notice a probationer gives or gets comes from the contract, and when the contract is silent, section 12(2) sets the minimum: four weeks for almost everyone still on probation.

  12 Sept 2026

• AI in hiring

  How to prepare for an AI interview: text, voice and video

  Most AI interviews are a first round with the recruiter taken out, and the preparation that works is not a trick for beating software. It is having your own facts straight and real examples ready, in the format you are about to meet.

  13 Sept 2026

• Malaysia law

  Annual leave during the notice period in Malaysia: what the Act says

  Two questions get mixed up: whether you can take leave before your last day, and whether leave you never took is paid. Section 60E of the Employment Act answers both, more plainly than most of what is written about it.

  13 Sept 2026

• Bahasa Malaysia

  Bayaran ganti notis: cara kira dan bila perlu dibayar

  Bayaran ganti notis membolehkan seseorang berhenti tanpa menghabiskan tempoh notis, dengan membayar bahagian yang tidak dijalani. Peraturannya ada dalam seksyen 13 Akta Kerja 1955.

  12 Sept 2026

• Bahasa Malaysia

  Notis berhenti kerja dalam tempoh percubaan

  Akta Kerja 1955 langsung tidak menyebut tempoh percubaan. Notis semasa percubaan datang daripada kontrak, dan jika kontrak tidak menyatakannya, daripada tempoh minimum yang sama untuk semua pekerja.

  12 Sept 2026

• Bahasa Malaysia

  Cara bersedia untuk temu duga AI: teks, suara dan video

  Kebanyakan temu duga AI ialah pusingan pertama yang dikendalikan oleh perisian, bukan oleh pegawai pengambilan pekerja. Persediaan yang berkesan bukan helah untuk mengalahkan perisian, tetapi mengetahui fakta tentang diri anda dengan tepat dan menyediakan contoh sebenar.

  13 Sept 2026

• Bahasa Malaysia

  Cuti tahunan semasa notis berhenti kerja menurut Akta Kerja 1955

  Dua soalan sering dicampuradukkan: sama ada anda boleh bercuti sebelum hari terakhir, dan sama ada cuti yang tidak diambil akan dibayar. Seksyen 60E Akta Kerja 1955 menjawab kedua-duanya dengan lebih jelas daripada kebanyakan tulisan tentangnya.

  13 Sept 2026