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Someone leave me a comment yesterday:

Case study 1:

Sex: Male
Degree: Graduate from NUS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1st class, year 2007
First job: Manager at a foreign bank in charge of loan, yes.. fresh degree graduate as manager

Does this guy have a degree in bank profession? With An EE degree he be employed as a manger in banking sector? How it come about?

Can explain... thanks...

He has only a degree in EE. There are many kind of banks in Singapore, there are some small bank where basically is a sales office that process loan.

For this case, he needs to deal with client, approve or not approve the loan, and that is all. The bank has all the spreadsheet designed for the loan approval procedure, so he needs to key in the data, talk to client, access the risk, and he will be countersign by 3 or 4 higher management.

He gets the title of "manager" could be:
1. He needs to deal with client, so the bank will give you a nice title.

2. In bank or some other company, they have a very flat structure, and fresh graduate can get a very nice title like "asst manager" etc.... And you may see many "vice president" in some cases.

3. You read from newspaper that some SMU fresh graduate can get starting pay higher than $5k or even $8k, so anything is possible!


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