UNDERGRADUATE CAREER SERVICES

Career profiling tools

All Career Coaches at DKHMCC are certified in career development facilitation and able to administer at least one personality or career profiling tool. These tools help students better understand their own personalities, career profiles, core business competencies and motivating factors of career success.

Personality and career profiling tools include:

• Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI®)

• DiSC Personality System

• Strong Interest Inventory

• CliftonStrengths

Career publications

DKHMCC produces a range of publications to cater to each phase of the students’ time at SMU. One such publication is the Majors and Careers Pathway Guide available for download via OASIS. The guide serves to provide a career’s perspective for students when deciding on majors.

Finishing Touch programme and career readiness workshops

As students progress to their junior and senior years, optional workshops will be offered at the crucial job application stage in their final years. These workshops are topic-specific to help penultimate-year and graduating students gain experience and understanding of the selection process in job applications.

Additionally, DKHMCC holds a series of complementary career readiness workshops to equip students with the critical skills and competencies needed to gain an edge in areas of career development and employability.

The Finishing Touch programme is one of SMU’s distinguishing factors and is well recognised by employers and students in preparing our graduates for a seamless transition to the working world.

For more information, please log in to OASIS > Career Devt & Comm Svcs > The Finishing Touch.

Internships

All SMU students are required to complete an internship before they graduate, and DKHMCC oversees the administrative work for this programme. Internships allow students to apply their classroom knowledge to a real-world setting, hone their soft skills and cooperative abilities, and build their credentials before starting their journey into the working world.

Students can find a plethora of internship opportunities by accessing OnTRAC II.

As students go through their educational and career journeys at SMU, they can also share their success by submitting stories and photos to placement@smu.edu.sg.

Graduate Employment Survey

The Graduate Employment Survey is an important survey that SMU alumni are encouraged to take. The survey is conducted annually among autonomous universities to ascertain the employment outcomes of their graduates.

The survey typically takes place about six months after senior-year students’ final examinations.

The results of this survey are an important indicator of the performance of SMU graduates in the job market. More importantly, the survey results affirm the value of SMU as an educational institution and the worth of an SMU degree. The information provided will also inform policy-making at the national level for Institutes of Higher Learning.

The “In Conversation” series

Launched by the Postgraduate Career Services team in June 2014, the “In Conversation” series is a lunchtime event held for postgraduates to interact with and learn from successful professionals at different stages of their careers.

Guests come from diverse industries, such as information technology, consulting, logistics, wealth management, finance and fast-moving consumer goods.

Postgraduate Career Services

Postgraduate networking event

The annual postgraduate networking event features a large number of employers across different industries, offering various roles and opportunities for the postgraduates. This is the perfect platform for postgraduates to connect faceto-face with hiring managers and HR representatives from employer partners.

The Pathways series

The Pathways series is an initiative launched by the Postgraduate Career Services team where experienced industry practitioners meet up with and give SMU postgraduates insights into their respective job functions. These include technology and operations, wealth management, treasury, risk management, asset management and corporate finance.

This series aims to enable students to make a more informed decision about their career pathways, thereby leading to a sustainable and rewarding career.

Anecdotal feedback on the series has been positive, with many students having gained a deeper understanding of the roles and attributes necessary to do well in their respective line of expertise.