The Lucky Lot of 2007


This was the headline for the Straits Times article regarding the Class of 2007 graduates.

Boom time graduates with multiple offers and huge pay checks.

What interests me is how they ‘profiled’ this batch of graduates and that includes us who are graduating next year.

This is what they wrote:

“The newest members (in the Lucky Lot Club) have a profile markedly different from that of those who made it to the club in the early 1990s.

This is a batch which has many members who can afford to take it easy, as Mum and Dad are working folks who do not need them to contribute to household expenses.

This is the batch that yearns to see the world, sometimes seeking international exposure over pay.

This is the batch that enters the job market already savvy with the marketplace, thanks to the proliferation of internships and overseas exchange at international institutions. Better yet, thanks to more experienced career officers, this batch gets the seasoned hand-holding earlier graduating classes never had.”

All I can say is, the profiling is dead on. At least for me, especially point no. 3 – yearns to see the world and international exposure over pay.

The statistics do look rosy indeed.