Established 2010
◆ ASEAN on the Horizon  Extending the ecosystem across the region ◆ Nationwide Presence  Career fairs in every major region ◆ Where Talent Meets Opportunity  Employers, universities and graduates, connected ◆ The Nation's Talent Authority  Trusted on employability since 2010 ◆ Employer Branding  Becoming the employer every graduate aspires to join ◆ Talentbank Career Passport  Register free at talentbank.ai and reach 25,000+ employers ◆ Now Open  Voting for the 2026 cohort is underway ◆ Employers' Choice Award  The universities trusted by the nation's leading employers ◆ Graduates' Choice Award  The nation's most-loved employers, chosen by graduates ◆ 90% MNCs, GLCs and Leaders  The calibre of employers we partner ◆ 50+ Career Fairs a Year  The nation's largest graduate employability ecosystem ◆ Millions of Lives  Touched through career fairs, awards and the Handbook ◆ 100+ Universities  Partnered across the higher-education ecosystem ◆ 25,000+ Employers  From MNCs and GLCs to the nation's fastest-growing firms 16 Years  Connecting the nation's talent and employers since 2010
◆ About Talentbank

Building the careers that build nations.

Talentbank is Malaysia’s talent authority, built to world standards. Sixteen years of talent intelligence now powers an ecosystem of awards, events, research, and Talentbank Career Passport, our career platform, open to everyone, everywhere.

Kuala Lumpur, for talent everywhere.
Our Mission

To map the world’s careers so precisely that every graduate finds the right beginning, and every organisation finds the right people.

Our Vision

A world where no talent is wasted: where careers are built on evidence, opportunity is visible to all, and employers compete to be worth choosing. It begins at home.

Who We Are

Sixteen years on from a single conviction, we are the nation’s talent authority. Our career fairs, awards, and research connect universities nationwide with the country’s leading employers, giving us a living understanding of how careers here begin, an advantage that now powers everything we build, taking us from Kuala Lumpur toward the ecosystem that will define how a country discovers, develops, and deploys its talent.

Talentbank connecting talent and employers
16 years connecting talent and employers.
Talentbank · Since 2010
What We Do

One ecosystem, three journeys through it.

01

For Employers

We help leading organisations hire the right graduates, build employer brands talent chooses, and understand the market better than anyone.

02

For Talent

We help students, graduates and young professionals discover their ideal employers, prepare with confidence, and begin careers that matter.

03

For Universities

We partner with universities across the country, recognising excellence and connecting their graduates with the industry that hires them.

What We Build & Run

One ecosystem, every discipline of talent.

Everything we run feeds what we know, and what we know makes everything sharper.

Career Platform · Talentbank Career Passport

The focus of our next decade. It matches people to the employers and opportunities they are built for. Built in Malaysia, made for the world.

talentbank.ai ↗

Career Assessment · Work Animal

Understand your strengths, instincts, and the environments where you thrive. Free, and open to anyone.

yourworkanimal.com ↗

National Recognition Programmes

The Graduates’ Choice Award, Employers’ Choice Award and Professors’ Choice Award. Benchmarks for reputation on every side of the table.

Career Discovery Events

Around 50 career fairs a year across Malaysia, where employers meet candidates face to face.

Talent Intelligence

One of the deepest datasets in the talent market: the National Graduate Employability Index, salary benchmarks, and industry research spanning 1,000+ organisations across 52 sectors.

Publications

The Graduate Recruitment Handbook, our annual hiring study, and the Career Playbook for building a career step by step.

Boardroom Challenge

Where some of the country's brightest compete, putting strategy and judgement to the test against real business problems.

Boardroom Challenge →

Tech Hackathon

Our priority programme for 2026, where the country's sharpest technical talent build, ship and compete.

techhackathon.com ↗

Corporate Learning · Talentbank Corporate University

Building tomorrow’s capabilities inside the organisations that hire today.

Talent Solutions · Talentbank PLUS+

Headhunting for the roles that matter most.

talentbank.io/plus ↗

Community & Purpose

Talentbank Foundation with MentorXChange, the Talentbank Ambassador programme, and the Talentbank Corporate Cup: the ecosystem that gives back.

2010
Founded in Kuala Lumpur
Years building the ecosystem
100+
Universities engaged
25K+
Employer partners
Millions
Lives touched
50+
Career fairs a year
Recognition & Partners

Trusted at the highest levels.

Our programmes work alongside government ministries, universities, and industry partners across Malaysia, support built steadily over sixteen years.

One Ecosystem

Several platforms, one purpose.

talentbank.io

The Corporate Home

Where employers, universities, and talent meet Talentbank.

talentbank.ai

Talentbank Career Passport

Our career platform, built to match talent with where they belong.

yourworkanimal.com

Career Assessment

Helping people understand their strengths and the work that suits them best.

Ben Ho, Founder and CEO
Founder

Ben Ho

Ben Ho began his career as a graphic designer. Today he leads Talentbank on one hard truth: the employability gap is not a talent problem but a readiness problem. So he built not a job board but a living ecosystem, one that has touched more than a million graduates and over 100 universities, and earned recognition from Malaysia's National Employment Council and former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir.

The hardest work is still ahead. As automation rewrites roles, employability becomes the line between a generation that adapts and one left behind. It is why Talentbank is building Talentbank Career Passport, a platform that walks with each person from first job to lasting growth. To partners who share that belief, the invitation is open.

Roots in Malaysia. Built for the world.
Ben Ho Founder & Chief Executive Officer
The Opportunity

Employability is the defining challenge of the next decade.

Automation is rewriting roles faster than any curriculum can follow, and the shelf life of a skill keeps shrinking. Capable graduates struggle to become ready, and employers struggle to find people who are. The gap is large, structural, and global, and Malaysia is not exempt from it: the same pressure is reshaping every job market we work in, from campus to boardroom.

Talentbank sits where education, employers and artificial intelligence meet, with sixteen years of proprietary understanding of how careers begin. That foundation now powers Talentbank Career Passport, the platform we are building for the decade ahead: one system connecting the ecosystem, and a lifelong companion for every individual. What we built in Malaysia, we are now extending across the region.

Partners & Investors

Building the work of a generation.

We welcome partners, investors and collaborators from across the world to discuss what we might build together. To arrange a conversation, reach Mavis at the CEO's office.

Be part of the next chapter.

Whether you are hiring, studying, or partnering, from Malaysia or beyond, there is a place for you in what we are building.