Hey everyone, I'm kinda new to this forum so pardon me if I resurrected a new carcass of another old thread or something.
I'm currently attempting to pursue a career in the civil service. Primarily looking at the Ministry of Defence, or Home Affairs. Because I'm quite new to the whole "looking for careers and getting employed" thing, I'm quite blur over a few things.
1. How long do I wait for notification after applying? I made some applications to the above ministries a week or two ago. They were via the online application forms of some jobsites like ST701. How long do I wait before its time to realise they are not interested at all in taking me in? Actually there were positions in one of the ministries that I applied in June/July of 2010 and cleared some of the interviews... but was delayed until the end of 2010 before finding out that I was not shortlisted for the positions.
2. I'm a Political Science major from
NUS but without Honours. Are the chances really that bad, based on qualifications? I don't really care about the pay being much lower than the honours peepz. Its not that I don't qualify to do my honours year, I just ran out of finances to do it. I'm pretty sure I will be pursuing a Masters in a few years time or so when I save up enough.
I feel like I've been stuck waiting for these ministries for a very long time. And its beginning to get quite depressing.