Professional Communication

Saturday, September 6, 2008 12:37 AM

Research Project

My group’s research project mainly aims to study the lack of career development and job searching skills among NUS students. Through the understanding from friends around us, we discovered that many of them are not equipped with the knowledge of some career development skills such as the skill of writing a proper resume. To make matters worse, some of them do not even have a well written resume prepared in view of their graduation in 6 months time. Thus, my group plans to analyze the possible reasons that are holding NUS students back from attending the necessary courses provided by the NUS career center which might help enhance their career development skills.

Firstly, in order to study the problem, we hypothesize that students will be equipped with career development skills if they attend the courses made available by the NUS career center. Since the problem lies in the lack of participation in the courses made available, the objective of this research study is to determine the possible reasons of the lack of interest in these courses from the student body.

In the process of the study, surveys will be handed out to NUS students to gather their opinions and views to justify their disinterest in these courses provided by the NUS career center. From the data, we aim to consolidate inputs of solutions from the student body so as to rectify the problem.

Finally, the objective of the report is to inform the NUS career center of the possible reasons leading to the lack of student participation in their career development courses. From there, we aim to convince the NUS career center to adopt some measures in order to improve on the participation levels such as enhancing their advertising methods.


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