OCTOBER 2 — Towards the end of every year, university halls across Malaysia fill with a familiar scene. Graduates walk across stages in robes and mortarboards, proud parents wait with flowers and cameras, and social media fills with photographs celebrating years of hard work. Then the ceremony ends, the robes come off, and one question inevitably follows many graduates home: “So, what are you going to do now?” For generations, the expected answer was straightforward — find a job. Today, that expectation is changing. Graduates are increasingly encouraged not merely to become job seekers but job creators: to start businesses, pursue innovation and eventually employ others. It is an attractive ambition for a country seeking higher-value growth and a more entrepreneurial economy. But job creators are not made simply by telling graduates to become entrepreneurs. They have to be developed.