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Originally Posted by Unregistered
Exactly.
I really hope that you guys will at least give them a chance.
My friend slogged day and night, everyday from 8am to 9pm to get his grades. He graduated with a 2nd upper, 3 marks short of a FCH. He applied to various Audit firms.
And you guys know what? An audit company just called him up and said, oh sorry we do not accept UOL graduates here. Come on, it's not as if ALL SIM graduates are useless. There are still a handful of them that are working hard to fight for their future.
Screw the stereotypes.
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I think you guys have to be realistic here. It's not that companies purposely discriminate or sterotype SIM, it is because they they know from hiring experience over many years that SIM have a much higher probability of lousy calibre than local uni grads.
Think of it this way, you have 2 position, 10 local uni applicants and 5 SIM applicants. From exp you know local uni 60% chance decent calibre and SIM 10% chance decent calibre. Which hiring manager in the right mind will ignore all the 10 local uni grads and take up the risk of hiring the SIM? Maybe in super boom markets when they cannot find enough local uni grads, but certainly not the current market where the number of local unis scrambling for jobs in good companies exceed the no. of vacancies.
Are there good SIM and bad
NUS/
SMU/
NTU? Of course.
Is this fair to the good SIM? Nope.
But put yourself as the boss of an audit firm or hiring manager, if given a choice will you pick a SIM over a
SMU if both come across as decent above average during interview?