Creating Impact Together: Industry Collaboration

Building real-world work experience 

CFG actively encourages NUS students to accumulate meaningful work experience to build critical life and career skills even as they pursue their studies. To make available maximum options and flexibility, we endeavour to provide internship opportunities of diverse formats, duration, and geographies. CFG internship programmes include Vacation Internship Programme and NUS Global Internship Programme. We also run the NUS TalentConnect and NUS Internship-As-A-Service portals that all students can use to access internships as well as full-time roles. NUS now facilitates more than 10,000 student internships each year.  

Outside of internships, students wishing to build work experience via part-time work can even access CFG’s NUS Student Work Scheme (NSWS), a holistic platform that consolidates all part-time roles conveniently located right on campus.  

Bringing Industry to the Classroom

Besides empowering students to build real-world work experience, CFG enhances students’ exposure to industry by actively bringing industry to the classroom. Our programmes and initiatives are crafted with structured involvement by industry insiders, and many industry experts join us as speakers and trainers across CFG programmes. Many also join us as mentors in CFG mentorship programmes like NUS Uplift Mentorship Programme and Power Up Mentorship Programme, sharing their personal and professional insights with student mentees. 

Going beyond our shores

Our collaboration with industry partners extends beyond Singapore’s shores. Via the Global Industry Insights (GII) course, CFG brings students overseas on physical study trips to various fast-growing economies in Southeast Asia, China, and India. Industry partners host our students for company visits and join students in industry networking events. Along with cultural appreciation activities, students build their global perspectives and are introduced to the exciting global career opportunities and pathways available. 

We also run regular Global Careers Talks, inviting industry experts to share with students about the professional landscape as well as opportunities that exist in emerging, fast-growing regions around the world.

Bridging Industry and Students

CFG continues to be a nexus bridging industry and NUS students. Students are provided ample opportunities throughout their time with the university to engage and network with industry partners. Through these, students deepen their understanding of sectors and career pathways, enhance their professional networks, hone important relational skill sets, and cultivate opportunities for job offers.

We run several career fairs throughout the year that see active employer participation. Other than campus-wide career fairs all NUS students can attend, CFG also organises career fairs targeted at specific student groups or for students in particular faculties and schools.

Outside of career fairs, we work closely with employers to mount more than 700 recruitment events, talks and company visits throughout the year. Depending on their interests, stage of career preparation, and career aspirations, students have the agency to select suitable employer events to attend to enrich their career journey.

What our industry partners say