3 Hot Career Tips for Fresh Graduates

By: Annie Yap

Annie Yap is the founder and Managing Director of AYP Associates. Based in Singapore, it specialises in executive search of mid to senior level management talents across various job functions and industries.

Besides Singapore, AYP Associates helps companies to source for talents from Malaysia, PRC, Vietnam, Eastern Europe, Japan, Korea, Australia, UK and even USA.

Find out more at www.aypassociates.com


Annie, how can students prepare themselves to successfully enter the working world?

1. Know what you want – It's good to do some personality profiling tests to find out about your personality so that you will be more guided as to what kind of job suits you. For example, are you an introvert or extrovert? Are you people oriented? What are your interests? What are you passionate about? These factors will help you in deciding what type of career to pursue.

2. Be disciplined – when you start out in your new job, be focused and put in the hard work for the first 5 to 10 years of your working career. This is the crucial stage that will lay a solid foundation for your career progress.

Sharing from my own personal experience, I worked at GMP for 15 years since I graduated. The truth is, fresh graduates will definitely face many obstacles and challenges in the working world, but it's important to persevere, endure, and resist the temptation to job hop every time we face a problem, or join another company for small salary increments.

3. Be flexible – working life is very competitive as we all live in a global economy now and business functions at a very fast pace. In order to stay on top of things, we have to constantly equip ourselves with new knowledge, keep an open mind and be flexible to change so that we can successfully adapt to new environments.


What is one piece of important career advice that you have for everyone?

Don't chase after money, but rather, chase after career progression and money will eventually look for you.

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Get to know more of Annie Yap's career tips for Fresh Graduates, as she shares her experiences with JobsDB Singapore. See her YouTube video as she talks more about Career Tips for Fresh Graduates.

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