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Originally Posted by Unregistered
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. |
You mentioned something interesting. You said that "only 1st class honours or higher from local universities like
NUS are considered to be in the second place, sometimes first place." Noting the fact that there is nothing higher than 1st class honour, that suggests that fch graduates are split into two groups. One that gets 'first place' salary and the other getting 'second place' salary.
From my very limited knowledge of HR work, starting salary are based on honours class and not the absolute CAP of the grad (although higher CAP = higher chance of getting job). So a CAP 4.95
NUS grad should be drawing the same pay as a CAP 4.50
NUS grad. From your style of writing, it seemed that you are somewhat involved in HR work, so maybe you would like to shed some light on this.