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Originally Posted by Unregistered
By "fresh grad" you mean no prior work experience I assume, rather than relevant work experience but graduated recently.
Regardless of the Ministry in question, the salary range depends almost entirely on your university and academic performance. Absolute top-tier universities like Harvard, MIT, Oxford, etc., will command the highest starting pay (3.8k to- 4k). Local universities like NUS and NTU come in second (3.5k to 3.8k). Reasonably high-ranking foreign universities like the University of Tokyo will come in third (3.2k to 3.5k). Fourth place are middle-ranking foreign universities like the University of Queensland (2.5k to 3.2k). Fifth place is everyone else, including private universities like SIM (2.1k to 2.5k).
Things like volunteering and CCAs are only taken into account for actually getting you the interview and later the job. It does not affect your pay. |
Oh and just an add-on, only 1st class honours or higher from local universities like
NUS are considered to be in the second place, sometimes first place. 2nd upper is around the third places, and anything lower is relegated to the fourth and fifth places.
Likewise, if the candidate is from a foreign university, honours is not compulsory for many of their degrees. As such, this is factored into account in our calculations. But, if they took honours in a good foreign university and did well, like say first class honours from the University of Tokyo, we regard them as the same as a "first place" candidate.
I could tell you not to worry about your academics, but the truth is, we will automatically discard 80-90% of applications based off the academic profile alone. We have a fairly strict quota for interviewees that we can't go over or under, so unfortunately even if you're technically qualified, if it so happens the job posting had too many outstanding candidates, we will overlook the "just okay" candidates.