It is the period where business and accountancy second year student have to register for professional attachment.
I was happily logging onto the system thinking of all the big and famous insurance firm that will be available for application.
Alas!!! to my disappointment, there is only one major insurance company-Great Eastern. The other companies are not really related to actuarial science. And we were asked to apply for Great Eastern before. The responses that some students received were of positions not related to actuarial science too. This leads me to think that many people do not really know what actuarial science is all about. That includes people from career services (because they got those companies for actuarial science).
Furthermore, I noticed discrimination against foreigners by companies or organisations. They put requirement as "Singaporeans only" or "Singaporeans and PRs only" (which don't make much difference since students rarely are able to get PRs). Well, I shall not name those companies or organisation. So there is 2 more group of positions that is not available to me.
On further checking, there is an European company that offers many positions for actuarial students. However, 1/3 of the positions needs people who are willing to work European hours. If I take the position, I will be working from 9pm to 1 or 3 am. It will be a suicide for people who sleep early, like me.
Sigh..... what to do? what to do.......
