Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Poly Advantage
I was playing my psp again and I heard a very common conversation in Singapore(I do not know if such things happened to other countries)The conversation is simply just junior college is better than polytechnics.I am getting a bit sian(bored) with this kind of unfounded conversation.It is a known fact that junior college graduates in Singapore could get into fancy university like National University Of Singapore.
But a lot of people were "shot dead" by A level and once they reached university,they faced the nightmare again and worse thing is that,it is part time work.Not that I am saying polytechnics are less stressful,because I have heard stories people burning their candles at both ends just to do some projects..
If you are those in the category of entrepreneurs,I would say that polytechnics are a better choice.Junior college is like reading lots of book but no real life skills.You have lot of knowledge but there are many factors that employers are looking in you..
If they want only knowledge,they would not have interview.But they would have gone for some fancy test to see that you have knowledge in the job.In this way,junior college would be better.In the interview,what are they looking for?
Communication skill is one of them.Stories of people even with university degree struggled to impress the interviewer.This can be solved by having powerpoint presentation,which is so so common in polytechnics..
There is also one factor that people are looking in you:leadership.There are great multitude of people but few are leaders.In the class,you can hardly see people volunteering to be a leader because it is one of the challenging jobs to be one.You must take responsibility for mistakes and you need to organize the ideas given by the teammates.People management is one of the uphill climb because people may not do your work and it takes a good leader to achieve what you must do for the team.