Will poly students be jobless?

• Alanleekuanyew

  6 Jan 09, 05:41

  Hi i am currently a year 2 student at ngee ann poly, heard that the work market is very bad. Kinda worried that i cannot get a job, when i graduate. Very worried as i come from a very poor family and my parents expect me to shoulder on the burden of the whole family. Heard that the economic crisis will come into full bloom soon.. will i be able to find a job when i graduate? i am from the engin side...

• syncopation_music

  6 Jan 09, 06:32

  Originally posted by Alanleekuanyew:

  Hi i am currently a year 2 student at ngee ann poly, heard that the work market is very bad. Kinda worried that i cannot get a job, when i graduate. Very worried as i come from a very poor family and my parents expect me to shoulder on the burden of the whole family. Heard that the economic crisis will come into full bloom soon.. will i be able to find a job when i graduate? i am from the engin side...

   

  Which course you are from ?

   

    i graduate from ngee ann poly in 1998 ..Electronics and Computer Engineering

   

  recession is bad ..ask for a lower starting pay lor

  aniwae i no longer an engineer

  doing my tuition business ...u can be a tutor if you want :)

• syncopation_music

  6 Jan 09, 06:32

  ---duplicate post...sgforum problem... :(

• jojobeach

  6 Jan 09, 07:01

  Originally posted by Alanleekuanyew:

  Hi i am currently a year 2 student at ngee ann poly, heard that the work market is very bad. Kinda worried that i cannot get a job, when i graduate. Very worried as i come from a very poor family and my parents expect me to shoulder on the burden of the whole family. Heard that the economic crisis will come into full bloom soon.. will i be able to find a job when i graduate? i am from the engin side...

  When the economy goes into crisis.. it doesn't matter if you graduate from poly, JCs or Uni, all will be affected.

  The problem .. when that happens.. degree holders will start competing with lower level graduates (Poly or JC) for the same job. Poly/JC graduates will have it harder as competition becomes more intense.

  If you are thinking about dropping out of your studies.. I suggest you don't. Just lower your expectations of a job prospect for now. And continue to strive towards getting your paper qualifications. Economy goes in cycles.. so by the time the situation improves.. you will not be left behind.

  Good luck.

   

   

   

   

• dukedracula

  6 Jan 09, 08:25

  market is bad, try tuition, it pays a little better right now, though the hours can be daunting...but if you can do well enough and build a reputation, you can actually live comfortably, but i guess that will take sometime.....used to have a maths tutor who charged min $150 per head per month, multiply that by 80 or so students that he had.... as for the job market, polishe your cv but since you are fresh out of school, do something different, also try using the net to publish your cv, a couple of days ago the local papers claimed some social network thingy helps though i think it's a very rare occurance....i might suggest you take foreign languages to boost that cv, there are some budget ones at community centres which you can sign up....most offering jap course, might be useful since you are in engineering....
• eagle

  6 Jan 09, 08:26

  when is TS graduating?

  only year 2 student leh.... Course should take 3 years right?

  By 2010, the economy should look better.

• ditzy

  6 Jan 09, 08:37

  You can find a job, unfortunately you might not be able to be too choosy.

• BotaHead

  6 Jan 09, 09:10

  you ish want to consider signing on? police, Army or Navy?

• hisoka

  6 Jan 09, 09:14

  year 2 means still got 2 years till grad? if so don't worry chances are economy will be recovering by then. barring exceptional circumstances

• corebooster

  6 Jan 09, 09:54

  there will be jobs for you, but only whether do you want to take it up.

• miNty`

  6 Jan 09, 13:38

  u still need to serve 2yrs of NS after you grad from poly right?

   

  By that time..it will be another 3yrs before u join the working force..so relax 1st...

• charlize

  6 Jan 09, 13:39

  Haiz.

   

  Times are so bad now.

   

  Might get worse this year.

• caleb_chiang

  6 Jan 09, 13:45

  Ai yo... still got Army to sign on mah...

• FireIce

  6 Jan 09, 13:46

  there will be jobs
  but u need some luck
  and cannot hiam this thiam tt

• Fatum

  6 Jan 09, 13:52

   

  so don't skip classes and do well lor .....

  D,D,D,D,D,D isn't gonna get you anywhere ....

• Miss Tiny

  6 Jan 09, 14:22

  maybe a few weeks before u graduate, u can start hunting for jobs alr. the faster u hunt for jobs, the sooner u can find a job.

• SevenEleven

  6 Jan 09, 14:25

  learn to be optismistic an you will live to be a happier person. You will only graduate in 1 year time so take it easy. Even if it really is a bad time when you graduates, there's really nothing much you can do, so be happy and learn to take things in its stride

   

• ditzy

  6 Jan 09, 17:02

  Remember your asking salary, any FT can undercut you by more than 1k, and do the same thing you do, no need to pay CPF somemore. Who do you think sounds more attractive to the employer?

• yourmotherrr

  6 Jan 09, 18:08

  Die. I too am a poly student. But still have 5 years to enter workforce.

  Hopefully, the market would be better then.

  If really cannot, then become ah long runner with my dad's retirement fund (:

• eagle

  6 Jan 09, 18:36

  5 years... unless there's a repeat of the 2003 downturn => which might lead to a downturn in 2013...... else the probability should be quite low...