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Job Placements 2010
| May 25, 2010 |
It pays to be a geek!
Judging by the results of the 2009 Graduate Employment Survey conducted by the Ministry of Education (MOE), fresh IT grads make more than Art, Design and Media grads. Graduates of Information Systems Management at SMU have the highest median monthly salary at $4,000.
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The New Paper |
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| April 07, 2010 |
SMU graduates top salaries across local universities
In addition to high employability, SMU graduates from the Class of 2009 also outperformed graduates from across the local universities in starting salaries 2 . Leading the pack, according to the survey, are SMU's information systems management graduates who are highest paid among all graduates from the local universities. They are earning $3,445, up 7.1% from $3,217 in 2008. Those with Cum Laude or better are getting $3,754, up from $3,655 by 2.7%. Last year saw a strong demand for information systems management graduates in the banking and financial sector. Many information systems management graduates, who are trained for professional positions that interface business and information technology, have been successful in securing jobs in this industry with generous remuneration in the range of $4,000 to $5,000 a month.
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| April 2010 |
90% of grads found jobs within 6 months
According to the Graduate Employment Survey, most university graduates last year secured full-time permanent jobs within six months of leaving school despite the bleak economic conditions. Graduates from SMU's economics and accountancy programmes were largely recession-proof and those from the School of Information Systems earned the highest mean monthly salary of about S$3,450. Published in the following:
The Straits Times (Apr 6)
The Business Times (Apr 6)
TODAY (Apr 6)
Human Resources (Apr 6)
Channel NewsAsia (Apr 5) 
Channel NewsAsia (Apr 5)
Channel 5 (Apr 5)
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Olivia CHIU Cheuk Ning
BSc (IS Management), 2006 entry batch
Double Degree in Bachelor of Business Management
"Having blessed with job offers from a government authority, 2 local banks, an investment bank and a consulting firm for a vary of roles ranging from Corporate Banking to Operations to Strategy, I finally settled with Accenture in Global Markets & Management Consulting. Out of these offers, 3 resulted from connections formed during my internships. While doing 5 internships during my university education deprived me of long holidays and exchange opportunities, I knew that building up a good network was very important.
SIS is more than a school to me. Other than learning practical knowledge on how IT links with business, SIS trained me to think faster on my feet (very helpful for |
interviews), to manage long working relationships with group mates, and to survive the toughest of deadlines. On top of that, Professors were always helpful (my dean even offered personal advice in choosing
among my job offers), and my peers, having gone through so muchtogether, stays together like glue. Having come from a JC background, choosing SIS was an almost crazy decision at that time. But I am very very glad that I was crazy and gutsy enough to make that decision. |
Some Highlights on SIS Students
Microsoft Most Valuable Professional
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Darren SIM
BSc (IS Management)
2009 entry batch
Darren SIM won the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Award 2010.
Check out his profile here.
Information on this award is found here. |
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Funded Research Project Award
Singapore MIT Alliance for Research & Technology (SMART) Innovative Centre awarded $50K to a team of SIS students:
Student Team Lead Investigator:
SNG Wei Zhuang Steven, BSc (IS Management) 2007 entry batch
Student Team Members: Timothy TAN and CHUA Zhi Hon, BSc (IS Management) 2007 entry batch
Project Name: Integrated Collaboration Environment (ICE) for Search
Faculty Mentor: SIS Practice Associate Professor Benjamin GAN
Project Duration: 1 Year
Project Start Date: February 2010
Left to right: Practice Associate Professor Benjamin GAN, SNG Wei Zhuang Steven, CHUA Zhi Hon, and Timothy TAN.
Making the SMART Choice
3 SIS students received the $50,000 SMART Explorer Grant to take their IS480 project to the next level in Feb 2010, after enduring months of anxious waiting.
Their brainchild is Baboonza Collaborative Search (www.baboonza.com), and it has come a long way, from being merely an idea to its current working state. The journey wasn't smooth sailing and co-founder Steve SNG wasn't very optimistic about landing the grant after pitching to the SMART committee back in December 2009. Without any funding, the online collaborative search application that Baboonza envisioned would never materialise. Thankfully, the team's impressive IS480 prototype proved to be a great testimony of their ability to deliver the end-product, and the team was finally awarded the grant 3 months later to realise their vision.
Steve and fellow year 4 SIS students Timothy TAN and David CHUA have since being working feverishly to refine the application and prepare it for beta. The team is also mentored by Prof. Benjamin GAN (Practice Associate Professor of Information Systems, Singapore Management University) and Mr. Gerald TOCK (Director, Nabi Studios), faculty mentor and catalyst of the team's SMART Explorer project respectively.
Follow Baboonza on Twitter (twitter.com/baboonzasearch) for updates on the project's impact on the way people perform search online and its effort to create an online culture of collaboration between people.
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