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Originally Posted by Unregistered
Everyone is sent for psychometric, regardless of whether your application has been seen or not. This is so that it makes the process much more faster and streamlined. It will be a waste of time to call you for an interview first and then you go ahead and fail the psycho test. Group of 8 isnt that big of a deal. In terms of rankings, not everything is in black and white. They look at the universities holistically too. Say for example, a philosophy masters graduate from Rutgers University and a philosophy graduate from Cambridge University both apply for a defence policy job in mindef. It is highly likely that the cambridge grad will get the job. However, Rutgers is ranked higher in terms of philosophy than Cambridge is!
Rankings also include research quality of the faculty members, which might not translate to quality of students. Quality of students is more related to the rigor of the curriculum, which most Australian universities lack when compared to Asian institutes. So what if you've completed a theses? So has every other local uni honors graduate out there lol. What's your readership? How many researchers have cited your paper?
IMO UQ is more popular among Singaporeans because they give liberal exemptions to poly grads. |
Oh chey! Yeah that makes sense but I thought it'd be even faster if they screen once before the psychometrics test cause I read somewhere in the much earlier pages it seems there have been people not called for psychometrics before.. Hmmm, i should probably apply for even more positions at other min/SB then, since they are likely to all take quite a while too.
Haha. GO8 isn't really great..Its just that it was the easiest way I could think of to narrow down the uni I am from since someone asked. lol! But I must say that maybe there is some tiering for australian unis as well like there is in USA with their ivy league schools.
Oh man.. lol 'holistically' again. That word. That's exactly what happens isn't it? Haha! Like someone says they are from Harvard and everyone goes gaga. I mean who cares what they study there right? Wrong. 'cause they don't have great programmes for every single subject they teach there. I believe that within any university the quality of programmes of the various faculties and schools can really differ. Haha. Would be logical to expect experts in the field to know better than to go by the overall clout of the school but oh wells, the hard reality. Perceptions are hard to change anyway.
Its true that most Aust unis have less rigourous cirriculums than Asian institutes but I wouldn't say that is true for all Aust unis actually. I used to be of the same opinion actually before I started my aussie course (ironically) but I was actually quite surprised of the level of rigour really. Of course its always going to be subjective but I guess there is some level of difference in academic rigour between the diff tiers as in every other country and between countries too but no one is gonna do an exact same course in two diff unis so we shall never know for sure. Of course its also dependent on that particular school/faculty within the uni.
Regarding the thesis part, I don't think every local uni honours grad completes one actually. But anyway, the value is not in the thesis per se and having people cite you a lot doesn't really value-add to your personal competency. Its the experience of going through the process that is valuable. Haha. It was a real awesome learning journey.
I see.. whilst I was in Aussie it seemed pretty popular amongst locals and other foreigners too. Haha. but maybe people just prefer brisbane and UQ happens to be there. lol.
Oops, diverted a bit much, but yeah so anyone knows the starting pay for DXO psychologist? Does the DXO scheme pay a bit more than the MXO scheme in general? or does it depend?