SMU law graduate Doreen Chia, 23, received a job offer from law firm Harry Elias Partnership a year before graduation. To her, that is the norm as "almost everyone gets a training contract" before they graduate, she said of her law faculty peers. Others wait just a little longer. More than nine in 10 polytechnic and university graduates in Singapore who entered the job market last year snagged jobs within six months of graduation. SMU Bachelor of Social Science in Psychology, and Organisational Behaviour and Human Resources graduate Lim Sue Ann said: "Every one (of my friends) found a job within six months. The main challenge of job hunting was finding a job that was a good fit. I wanted a balance between what interests me and putting my degree to good use." She was offered a management associate job with The Learning Lab enrichment centre two weeks after applying, and three months before she graduated.