Career Fair Walkabout

Went to the Career Fair today to hunt for a job. So did many others. It seems smaller scale this year, although the organizers calim to have more participants this year. One thing I noticed, the mainstays of past Career Fairs, the Manufacturing companies and Ministry of Education, are all not there. With the current economy situation, you could not blame the Manufacturing companies for not turning up. Whereas, the signal by MOE for not turning up seems to tell people that, thanks but we do not need anymore new teacher recruits after having 4 years of continuous exposure at Career Fairs.

On a side note, more than half of the jobs available today were in Statutory Boards or Government-Linked Companies, better known as GLCs. The notion that jobs in Ministries are only meant for 1st or 2nd Upper Class honors degree holders as the job scope are mainly management does not hold true. Many of their openings are still listing Good Honors (ie at least a 2nd Upper Honors)for even jobs which are seen as more line and file. With the economy squeeze, it is even harder on people such as myself to land any job without the "highflautin" ideas the employers have that non-honors degree holders are a waste of time.