2018

Singapore Career Exploration

Programme 2018Business, Innovation and Technology

cum Project-Based Internship

Highlights

6

9

5

Companies provide project-based internship

Company visits to industry leaders

Hands-on training sessions by domain experts

Certified courses from National University of Singapore

Uncover the untold truth of business management

Gain internship certificate and apply practical knowledge

TRAINING MENTORSCOMPANY

Singapore Career Development Programme 2018 aims to help students

discover the career interest and learn the practical skills essentials to future

career. Through the one-week training and company visits, students will

have a better understanding of themselves and know how to solve

problems on various fields. The one-week internship will allow students to

apply what they learn into real life.

Objective

Classroom training covering various topics (2~3 hours/session)

Conducted by domain experts from both industry and academic

To equip students with essential knowledge critical to internship

5 Training Sessions

9 Company Visits

Experience sharing by BestTop mentors (2~3 hours/session)

Learn from mentors about their working experience

To extend students’ personal network for career development

5 Days Internship

Guided tour in Singapore companies (1~2 hours/visit)

Experience the workplace in Singapore

To help student understand different industry and company culture

Programme Structure

Group ProjectPresentation

Company Visit

@Facebook SingaporeCompany Visit

@Credit SuisseTraining Session

@NUSCompany Visit

@OCBC Bank

Mentor Networking

@Marina Bay

2017 JULY

Programme Video

GalleryCompany Visits

2017 October

Programme Video

2018 March

Programme Video

Internship with AXA Singapore

GalleryInternship

Internship Certificate

Programme Schedule 15 July – 27 July

Date Session Course/ Program In Charge Description

15 July

SunAfternoon

Welcome Dinner and

Program BriefingBestTop

Overview of following week’s activities

Highlight important things to take note

16 July

Mon

MorningTraining Session (1)Business Consulting for

Real-life Projects

Daniel Kang

3 typical company consulting projects

Introduction of consulting work

Preparation for case interviews

Afternoon

Training Session (2)

Market Research for

Business

Tony Jin

Basic concept of market research for startups

Market research process & demo

Briefing on Friday’s project statement

Afternoon Company Visit (1)

MasterCard

MasterCard

Innovation

Center

Showcase of numerous Fintech innovations developed by

various MasterCard Labs

Attend sharing talk by the Vice President, Innovation

Management, Digital Payments and Labs, Asia Pacific,

MasterCard

17 July

Tue Morning

Training Session (3)

Communication Skill

Prof. Chai

(NUS ISEM)

Certified official training course by Department of Industrial

Systems Engineering and Management, National University of

Singapore

Learn a novel problem solving approach inspired by the

“Rough, Rapid, Right” prototyping approach by IDEO

Date Session Course/ Program In Charge Description

17 July

Tue

Afternoon

Company Visit (2)

Credit Suisse APACCredit Suisse

Visit the Credit Suisse Singapore office

Attend sharing talk by Credit Suisse’s Vice President, focusing

on career development in the financial industry

Afternoon

Company Visit (3)

Maritime and Port

Authority: Singapore

Maritime Gallery

Maritime

and Port

Authority

Attend exclusive guided tour to discover how Singapore

transformed from a small trading post into a premier Global

Hub Port and world's leading International Maritime Centre

18 July

Wed

Morning

Training Session (4)

Certified NUS Training:

Systematic Problem

Solving (II)

Prof. Chai

(NUS ISEM)

Learn the concept of storyboarding and the two key

components, horizontal logic and vertical logic

Work in groups to develop a reference model using simple tools

such as Post-in notes

AfternoonCompany Visit (4)

WOTSO Work_SpaceWOTSO

Visit Australia’s leading providers of co-working hubs – WOTSO,

a subsidiary of ASX-listed Black Wall

Hear the stories of WOTSO and how it breaks into the market in

Singapore

Afternoon

Company Visit (5)

Hong Kong Economic

& Trade Office in

Singapore

HKETO

Singapore

Learn from HKETO’s Invest-HK about how Hong Kong attract

inward investment

Attend the sharing by the Head of Investment Promotion from

Invest-HK

Programme Schedule 15 July – 27 July

Date Session Course/ Program In Charge Description

19 July

Thu

Morning

Training Session (5)

How to Run a

Successful Startup

Yoav Elgrichi

(Impac-

Tech)

Workshop by the founder of ImpacTech, a business consulting

company that empowers impact driven technology companies

and startups

Practical insights and real example sharing about

enterprenurship and startup launching

AfternoonCompany Visit (6)

Yakult SingaporeYakult

Introduction on our Yakult’s background and organization

Talk on intestinal health matter, and showing scientific

documentary film or an animated film

Afternoon

Company Visit (7)

MetLife Innovation

Center

MetLife

Visit Lumenlab, MetLife's pioneers for disruptive innovation

charging ahead to create new businesses in health, wealth,

and retirement

Understand how MetLife builds new products and services

grounded in data and technology

20 July

Fri

Morning

Training Session (6)

Planning for Career,

Planning for Future

Dr. William

Thomas

(Designing

Leaders)

Workshop by experienced trainer who has served for the US

Army Academy over a decade

Develop sustainable career development plan, and discover

ways to stand out in interviews and assessment center

Acquire important networking skill to succeed your job

application

Programme Schedule 15 July – 27 July

Date Session Course/ Program In Charge Description

20 July

Fri

AfternoonCompany Visit (8)

Oracle SingaporeOracle

Understand more about Oracle’s Cloud Innovation

Accelerator

Learn the stories of leveraging new technology solutions

across industries such as retail, recruitment, and finance

AfternoonCompany Visit (9)

Hatcher+Hatcher+

Learn how the data-driven venture investment platform can

leverage on AI and machine learning technologies to identify

early-stage investment opportunities

Afternoon

Certificate Awarding

Ceremony and

Feedback Session

BestTop

Top individual will be identified

Students share experience and learning results in the past

week

EveningBestTop Mentor

Networking Party

BestTop

Mentors Networking with 10+ BestTop mentors from various industries

23-27 July

Mon-Fri

9am-6pmProject-based Internship

Attachment

Various

Companies

Students are attached to respective companies.

Arrangements will follow companies’ requirements

Students may choose company according to their own

preferences

The placement decision is based on students’ performance

during the training session in first week

Certificate of project completion will be issued to students

when they complete the project to companies’ satisfaction.

Programme Schedule 15 July – 27 July

Hatcher+ is a next- generation, data-driven venture firm that

uses AI and machine learning-based technologies to identify

early-stage opportunities in partnership with leading

accelerators and investors, worldwide.

AXA is a French multinational insurance firm headquartered in

the 8th arrondissement of Paris that engages in global insurance,

investment management, and other financial services.

Bitmain Technologies operates Ant-pool, historically one of the

largest bitcoin mining pools.

Manulife Financial Corporation is a Canadian multinational

insurance company and financial services provider

headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Internship Attachment 23 July – 27 July

SimPlus is a maritime technology firm.We create tracking and

planning software powered with real-time and predictive

analytics, which we believe has the potential to transform the

maritime industry and will be the key to the future of

transportation optimization.

Auto-Wealth is a Digital Financial Advisory Platform and helps any

Singaporeans accumulate wealth effortlessly to meet their

financial goals through good investing.

Fund-Yourself-Now aims to be the Kickstarter version, where they

offer creators the option to do both non-ICO and ICO projects,

providing access to lawyers and compliance specialists, building

up all the marketing channels and introducing cryptocurrency

exchanges.

Internship Attachment 23 July – 27 July

Overall Rating

Training Sessions

Feedback on

4.4/5

“William is such nice a person, full of experience ,humorous.

I do enjoy the conversation with him and it does help me

with my problem.”

- E Chen, Hong Kong University

Overall Rating

Company VisitsFeedback on

4.1/5

“This trip to Goldman Sachs is amazing and useful. The panel

discussion is quite interesting since we cam directly reach

out to the person in different teams and ask specific

questions .”

- S. Huang, Hong Kong University

Overall Rating

Mentors Sharing SessionsFeedback on

4.0/5

“Good inspiring talks from mentors, great insights…They

know how to get around in the industry, and know some

other ways to find opportunities, have ways to connect to

various industries, company and people.”

- A. Chan, University of Hong Kong

Program Fee

The program fee is HKD 8500. Please fill in

http://besttopcareer.mikecrm.com/Pg20eQ2 to apply for the programme.

INCLUSIVE The program fee is inclusive of

mentor training fee, venue

rental, lecture notes,

welcome dinner and

networking dinner, chartered

shuttle bus for company visits.

EXCLUSIVEThe program fee is exclusive of

hotel accommodation, air ticket ,

visa application fee, airport

pickup, daily transportation to

training & internship venue, and

travel insurance.