Level playing field .... ?

My cousin of mine recently graduated from local universities. Yeah... no big deal. And she has engaged me to help her in her job-hunting pursuit, and so she sent me her resume. Being a fresh graduate, she honestly listed out all her SPM results ... all the As, Bs, Cs, Ds, Es. My goodness, with so many C, D, E s also she can make her way to university ! Something must be wrong somewhere - that was my first thought.

Hey, i've got friends who have a nice list of As & Bs only but still cant squeeze into university, you know.

I was told she got in bcoz university need to meet "rural area quota". Since she is born and bred in a small kampung ( village ), there ... she got some advantage of being a rural folk. This is part of the effort to bring up the level of education in rural area, it seems

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Her resume was disappointingly poor. Hadnt she learn anything from the 3 years in university ? Yeah... i admit i can be mean and demanding sometimes, but this is really too shocking....

• Personal particulars written at the end of the resume ?
• Multiple obvious and very eye-sore spelling mistakes all over the resume
• A sexy personal photo attached that look more suitable for "Malaysian Idol" contest ...
  
• Have your own uncle as the referee ...... what else can happen ? List your father, mother, granpa, granma as your referral ?
  

What did I do ? I made big red circles all over her resume !! .... kidding :)

i nicely told her to make changes, and after like three rounds editing, it finally look slightly presentable. I was grumbling all night over resume.

Someone : Come on, you gotta be more understanding, she doesnt have the advantage like the city folks.

Me : Sure or not ?? Surely she should have upgraded herself during the 3 year university education. If she fail to do that, she got no one to blame except herself.

Someone : We should exercise some leniency and be more forgiving on her flaws, given that she doesnt have the advantage of living in the city.

( Eh... this sounds like our NEP subsidy mentality )
( no no ... this sounds like those specific group of lawyers who needed favors from one of the GLC bank )

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My conclusion :
It seems that we not only dont have level playing field between bumis vs non-bumis.
We are also promoting a different level of playing field btwn rural vs city.