revealed that Malaysia is now a top 20 country for global employment attractiveness in 2020. The country ranked 42 in 2014, and 33 in 2018—making 19th place in 2020 an impressive feat.
The dramatic hike to top 20 is also due to how Malaysia has handled the COVID-19 pandemic. Jobstreet theorised that the country had “much better management” of the pandemic “as compared to certain Western countries”. “The pandemic has proven to be a key factor that has drastically changed the way global talent think about employment preferences,” said SEEK Asia’s chief marketing officer Ramesh Rajandran.
The countries where people would like to come to Malaysia for work in 2020 include Indonesia, Singapore, India, Pakistan, Yemen, Thailand, China, Syria, Nigeria and Qatar—with Indonesia being the number 1 country. Indonesia is notorious for