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Under the guidance of Dr. Kalai Anand Ratnam from Faculty of Computing, Engineering & Technology (FCET) and Mr. Hari from APIIT Corporate Training, a total of 80 students from the APU Schools of Computing & Technology participated in an engagement session with Microsoft Malaysia recently, on the 22nd of February 2017. We are pleased to share that this visit has given them an insight of the working culture within the tech giant company, which was located at the Petronas Twin Towers, Kuala Lumpur City Centre (KLCC). 
 
Despite being amazed by the view and the well-decorated offices of Microsoft Malaysia during the office tour conducted by a staff from Microsoft, students were also given a short workshop on building their first “cross-platform” application. Upon completion, the students also walked away with some goodies from Microsoft, together with photos that documented their memories of visiting the Malaysian office of one of the world’s largest IT corporation.

 
 
The 1-day visit aspired many of our students to undertake their career path in software development. What’s more? Some of them even set a goal for themselves, as they wish to be a member of Microsoft in the future! 

A fully funded, free-of-charge certification training scheme, the 1Malaysia GRIP (Globally Recognised Industry and Professional Certification), is currently being delivered by APIIT Corporate Training. 3 Microsoft certification trainings, namely the Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE) Server Infrastructure, Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE) Private Cloud, Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer (MCSD) Web Applications, are fully-funded by the HRDF (Human Resource Development Fund), as part of the Ministry of Human Resources’ effort to up-skill and re-skill Malaysia’s current workforce through high value added training programmes.

This programme is open to all Malaysian employees who are employed by a company registered under the SSM (Suruhanjaya Syarikat Malaysia). The first sessions of the certification programmes started on Monday, 17 August and Tuesday, 18 August 2015, 7:00pm to 10:00pm. Participants of the programmes are from various prestigious companies, as listed below:

•    Fuji Xerox Malaysia Sdn Bhd
•    Start Media Group Bhd
•    Red One Network Sdn Bhd
•    GHL Global Sdn Bhd
•    Arvato Systems Malaysia Sdn Bhd
•    T-Systems Malaysia Sdn Bhd
•    Measat Satellite Systems Sdn Bhd
•    BT Global Technology (M) Sdn Bhd
•    IBM Malaysia Sdn Bhd
•    Hewlett-Packard Multimedia Sdn Bhd
•    And more