Career Champs

Career Champs is a student-centric platform which aims to serve the career needs of our learners (students and working adults), to boost employability, facilitate career transition and progression.

Career Champs aims to: • Accelerate your career journey through upskilling in a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) world; • Connect and Interact with alumni and professionals of your industry of choice; and • Empower you to discover your career interests and increase your chances of getting your dream internship or job.

This is achieved through career related events such as Career Fairs, Networking Events, Leadership Talks, Fireside Chats, Webinars and Company Visits, among others. Contact us at careerchamp@sim.edu.sg for further queries!

Let us now hear from two of our Career Champs on their experiences.

Vennesyia Niquita

BSc in Banking and Finance, SIM-UOL Partnerships and Engagement Department SIM EDGE Award Recipient

My role

As the main coordinator for the Partnerships and Engagement Department, I served to bridge the gap between students and potential employers with the objective of helping students to further explore job and internship opportunities in the various sectors of the economy. We hoped to be able to expose students to the myriad of possibilities in the different industries in the APAC region by collaborating with companies and conducting career fairs.

What motivated you to join Career Champs?

The coexistence of comfort and growth is elusive for anyone with big dreams. Having been through two years of university, my biggest takeaway is the importance of growth. The person I was two years ago would certainly have not dared to venture out of my comfort zone and would still be living in the comforts of my shell if it were not for the opportunities SIM has afforded me.

After attending multiple career talks by local and international alumni, I knew that I wanted to give back to SIM and create a difference in the lives of other students, the same way these alumni inspired me. Career Champs was the perfect platform for me to achieve so much more than just that as it not only honed my soft skills, but also shaped me to become a more confident individual no longer afraid to take on challenges.

Some words of advice

Today, we no longer live in a world where academic excellence is the sole determining factor of your future. Luck is when preparation meets opportunity. It is imperative that we continue to work on ourselves and constantly upgrade our skill sets in order to remain relevant, so that when the opportunity comes, we will be ready. SIM offers a plethora of opportunities for you to prepare yourselves for the workforce, all you have to do is take it and make the best out of them.

Jayden Lin

BBus in Logistics and Supply Chain Management, SIM-RMIT Partnerships and Engagement Department SIM EDGE Award Recipient

My role

As the former President of the Supply Chain Career Chapter, I had the opportunity to lead a team to organise learning journeys, workshops and career talks in order to connect students to the developing and ever-changing logistics and supply chain industry. We aim to strengthen student’s relevance to the industry by providing the opportunities for students to network with the industry practitioners as well as to explore various internship and career opportunities. Some companies we have collaborated with include Procter & Gamble (P&G), Sembcorp Marine, Thenamaris and more.

What motivated you to join Career Champs?

The statement “Let my accomplishment be measured by whether and how much I help others succeed” deeply inspired me, and reassured my purpose of helping others to achieve their goals. Career Champs allowed me to serve students and working adults in terms of career needs. The process of enabling, encouraging and promoting while levelling up my achievements beyond the relentless pursuit of self-ambition became all the more important in this time, as we continue to navigate through this global pandemic.

I brought my unique vision ability and previous experience from Career Chapters to Career Champs in order to chart the blueprint out for Partnership and Engagement (P&E), and used them to lead a team that organised events as well as forged connections through professional internships in companies such as Advisors Alliance Group, Axxel Marketing and Shopee. I also leveraged on these experiences and connections to decipher workplace readiness skills and industry trends by connecting people with industry practitioners as well as career opportunities.