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This posts is not to divert GCE O-Level students into taking up Polytechnic courses over the JC route, but more of sharing with avid readers of this blog on the market reality.

Based on major local papers, Polytechnic graduates are in high demand amid Singapore’s robust economic growth, with the maritime and engineering sectors offering the highest salaries for fresh graduates. According to the annual Graduate Employment Survey conducted between Oct and Dec last year by the five polytechnics in Singapore – Nanyang, Ngee Ann, Republic, Singapore and Temasek – about 93% of economically active fresh graduates found jobs within six months, up from the overall employment rate of 91.3% in 2006 survey. The 2007 survey were based on 11,000 respondents.

The new hires were also paid better, commanding a S$1,805 average gross monthly wage, up 5.5% from S$1,711 in the previous year. These days in Singapore, many see jobs that indicate they’re looking for diploma holders and most of their peers are also working already, said one poly graduate. Many felt that the internship or commonly known industrial attachment was the best factor in equipping them for the industry and rate of getting employment.

Of the fresh graduates employed full time, about 85% were hired by the private sector and the other 15% in the public sector.

Hope this will also spur my ex-students that i have coached and currently in Polytechnics  – to be very focus and drive towards your own success. Rmbr – your coach here is also from the Polytechnic route -> we can do it!

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