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The employment rate of graduates from Singapore's three public-funded universities remained above 90% and the average starting pay saw an increase…
Fresh graduates got higher starting salaries
Despite the economic uncertainty last year, the graduating cohort of 2011 from three local universities saw robust employment and good starting…
Dip in hiring hits SMU's Class of 2011
The Graduate Employment Survey just released by MOE indicated that 95.6% of graduates from SMU's Class of 2011 found jobs within six months of…
Engage SMU profs: Foster a culture of continuous learning and innovation
Thomas Menkhoff, Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Human Resources (Practice) provided insights on what SMEs can do to ensure…
Class of 2011 SMU graduates' salary at record high: survey
The Education Ministry has published the results of the 2011 Graduate Employment survey, which polled 12,998 graduates from the three public-funded…
Fresh grads shun smaller law firms
Ministry of Law recently announced that it will set up a steering committee to look into ways to increase the supply of lawyers in Singapore. Small…
For more small firms, it's not just business
More SMEs are making corporate social responsibility (or CSR) part of their operations. Auditor KPMG, which provides consultancy services for…
Sageby finds way to monetise waiting time
SMU final year undergraduates George Chen, Bryanmaguire Chia and Lee Pei Zhi are the trio behind tech start-up Sageby that focuses on developing a…
Avoiding a back-breaking mortgage
Speaking at the SMU School of Economics seminar series on the impact of financial literacy on mortgage decisions and outcomes, Stephan Meier, an…
'Internet community should self-regulate'
At the forum, "To Post or Not To Post?: Multiculturalism in the Social Media", Assistant Professor Eugene Tan agreed that self-regulation is the way…
