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Alumni Employment
BSc (IS Management) alumni are doing exceptionally well in the job market. They are in 'hot demand' by employers even before they graduate and are fetching higher starting salaries compared to their seniors.
The two alumni featured below are among the sought-after, successful and fantastically transformed undergraduate students in SMU School of Information Systems.
Stella Ong, BSc (IS Management) Batch 2004 with Second Major in Finance
Stella's information systems and business skills enable her to set up and monitor financial instruments for Barclays Capital in her role as Operations Analyst. One of Stella's supervisors was only half-joking when he told her that when she rotates to another part of the bank, it will take two other recent hires to replace her combination of IT capability and banking business operations.
Benjamin Boh, BSc (IS Manangement) Batch 2003 with Second Major in Marketing
Benjamin's multiple internship experiences help him in developing pragmatic and profitable strategic business plans for Procter & Gamble, where he is an Associate Manager.
When Procter & Gamble interviewed Ben back in 2007, they really liked that he had the skills to automate data management as well as the business smarts on how to use the data for marketing.
 Ruth CHIANG Director Office of Career Services Singapore Management University |
“The ISM graduates have done well in the job market and are employed across a wide range of industries.
Of course, some ISM graduates are working as IT professionals, often in IT roles where they must have a deep understanding of business and user needs. Some ISM graduates are working as management consultants, management executives, business development managers, and sales and marketing managers. The fact that the ISM graduates can understand the customer's business needs, as well as the needs for leveraging IT, give them great advantage in these types of jobs. A number of ISM graduates are also working as financial analysts, securities and finance dealers, brokers, and operations professionals, demonstrating that employers in banking and financial services value |
employees who can use IT in sophisticated ways to meet customer and business needs. ISM graduates have also gone into teaching, into entrepreneuring and into various other jobs.
At SMU Career Services, we are impressed that the ISM graduates have such a wide choice of careers open to them. Employers tell us they love the rigor of the ISM training, and that they really see the positive work and learning attitude, the drive and sense of realism in our ISM graduates. Employers especially like the impressive real-world experiences the ISM graduates bring with them, especially as a result of their final year projects and their internships. More and more employers also tell us that they think the SIS learning outcomes are spot on. They are impressed when ISM students present their capabilities and skills within their learning outcomes framework." |
Check out the following articles on SMU SIS alumni employment.
| SMU grads landing jobs sooner – and at higher pay Features BSc (IS Management) graduate Edwin CHONG Lik Ming (Batch 2003) SMU's annual Graduate Employment Survey shows that the fourth and largest batch of graduates from SMU are getting job offers earlier than their seniors and they are also fetching higher starting salaries compared to the year before.  more (May 2008) |
SMU graduates make IT work at work SMU School of Information Systems (SIS) advertorial on how the school produces graduates who are in hot demand by employers from all industries. Published in TODAY (14 Nov 2007) |
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See more examples of BSc (IS Management) Alumni Employment. Note the wide range of companies, as well as the job roles, across many types of industries which shows that SIS students really do have expanded career options.
