Chin Mei Kuan | mk.chin@nus.edu.sg
the ridge news
A NUSSU Publication
Feb. 25, 2008
Story Highlights:
- Companies open to hiring large numbers of students this year
- Numbers of companies participating increased from last year
- Students have greater choice in choosing their employers due to more job opportunities present
- Improvement for future fairs, students said
Photo shift engineer Amit Kumar from IM Flash Singapore was impressed.
He said: “I think they are very enthusiastic and very sharp. They already know a lot about what we do.”
“Even though there are some who do not know much, they are always very eager to know more and more about our industry,” he added.
Kumar was referring to the National University of Singapore undergraduates who turned up at the NUS Career Fair 2008.
The fair was held on Feb. 21 and Feb. 22 at Multi Purpose Sports Halls 1 and 2 in NUS.
Organized by the NUS Career Centre, the fair featured a total of 121 companies, including research institutes, this year.
NUS undergraduates with their haul of corporate gifts and pamphlets from the fair.
(Photos by Chin Mei Kuan)
One thing which stood out at the fair: companies appear to be in want of NUS graduates.
When asked the number of vacancies IM Flash is offering this year, Kumar replied “We don’t even have a number!”
Other companies appeared just as eager to hire fresh graduates as well.
Robin Tan, senior adviser from First Principal Financial, said that his company has no limits on the number of fresh graduates they are hoping to take in through the career fair.
The company welcomes students from “all disciplines,” said Tan.
But whether undergraduates will be as eager to join the companies remains to be seen.
With the number of participants up from the 93 companies which took part last year, undergraduates find themselves with even more jobs to choose from this year.
Wong Ian Rhee, a third-year chemical engineering major, who attended the fair during 2007 and 2008, was pleased with the “significantly larger number of companies,” at the fair this year.
“This (increase) provides us with more opportunities to look for jobs,” he said.
The increase in the number of booths set up this year did not go unnoticed by the participating companies as well.
Tan agreed that the fight for fresh graduates is heating up, noting that there is “stiffer competition” amongst companies this year.
This is First Principal Financial’s eighth year participating at the NUS career fair.
Third-year psychology major, Ho Jia Yan was pleased with the number and the variety of job opportunities offered too. There are definitely more choices this year, she said.
However, she suggested that if next year’s planning committee could have bigger maps prominently displaying of each of the companies’ booths, the career fair would be significantly better.
According to Ho, “the map is just pasted out at the front (entrance),” resulting in students crowding around the area just to find out where the companies are.
Wong also suggested that a stage could be set up for job companies to talk to students in general about the jobs they were offering, on top of the existing booths already present at the fair.
Undergraduates in search of job opportunities.
(Photos by Chin Mei Kuan)
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