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Anonymous

06 Oct 2020

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I am a foreigner who have just graduated from NTU, and am struggling to find employment given the covid-19 situation and increasing Employment Pass minimum salary requirement. Any tips for me? :(?

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Lim Boon Tat

06 Oct 2020

Mathematics at Cambridge University

What i noticed is that fresh grads tend to send in the same CV for every single job, no matter how different the job is. Rather than spending 10 seconds per job application, you may wish to stand out more by really spending time to customize each application, by refining your CV to bring more the more pertinent points according to each employer, and by really tweaking your cover letter to fit the job opening. It may seem like a lot of work upfront, for very little potential gain, but in this climate, every bit counts, and if you spend a lot of effort per application, i'm confident you will see results.

Yuantai Liu

03 Oct 2020

Chief Coach at Happy Coach

Hi Anon,

Thanks for the question. It is a bad situation for you now, but don't let that discourage you. As Jasmine has replied, don't stop trying. Keep applying, keep networking (LinkedIn is a really useful resource for job search and making connections). We can only control how we respond to bad situations, and I wish you all the best!

Just keep applying non-stop(like 10 a day?), maybe take this time to learn some skills as well? To m...

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