24 November 2017

There are a growing number of university graduates taking on part-time, freelance and contract work, especially those from private schools.

The Singapore Institute of Management recently reported that while around 83 per cent of its graduates last year found jobs within six months of completing their degree studies, around 19 per cent were freelancing or had taken on jobs on a part-time or contract basis.

The median gross monthly salary for SIM graduates remained the same as in the previous year, at $2,700.

NUS, NTU and SMU, which released their graduate employment survey in February, reported that 80 per cent of their graduates landed full-time jobs within six months of graduation, but the number of part-timers was close to 10 per cent.