June 20, 2007

When the internship is not worth it

[pu2]: the simpler story said:

It turned out that the company’s main business was to conduct credit card telephone sales for one of the biggest banks in Singapore. The interns would work as telemarketers.

Recommended by Anonymous Coward: "interesting post about local undergraduate students being exploited during internship"

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April 02, 2007

Insight to NTU's Allocation System for Students Attachment

[pu2]: the simpler story said:

Alas, in the end we witnessed randomness taking victims when some smart students ended up jobless at the end of this phase. The rest of the have-nots, on the other hand, was able to feel slightly better as “that dude also hasn’t got a job”.

Recommended by Anonymous Coward: "As a student of NTU myself, I can identify with all the anxiety involved in the matching process. Indeed, some of us are left dumbfounded at the end."

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