Contact Singapore — Research Virtual Career Fair

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If you are an experienced scientist, researcher or engineer interested in advancing your career in dynamic Asia, take note that registration is now open for Singapore’s inaugural virtual research career fair from 10-12 October.  This online event allows you to preview and discuss the research opportunities within Singapore’s research landscape from the convenience and privacy of wherever you are in the world.

 The event’s official website at www.contactsingapore.sg/research/vcf/oct2011 has a list of the participating organisations and invites prospective attendees to submit their resume for consideration before the show is open.  There is a fair distribution of opportunities at some of Singapore top research universities, world-renowned research institutions and research-driven corporations like GE Water and Vestas.  Besides the opportunity to “chat” directly with representatives from participating organisations during event days, there is also a Contact Singapore booth, where you can get your questions about working and living in Singapore answered.

 This online event underscores the importance of research as a driving force behind the development of Singapore’s knowledge-based new growth industries like biomedical science, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, cleantech, IT, electronics, precision engineering and digital media.  As an indication of Singapore’s commitment to research, Singapore has raised the national research budget by 20 percent for the next five years until 2015 to SGD16.1billion.

 There are a couple of reasons why the city is so appealing for research work.  Most oft-cited is the strong government support and public funding available for research projects. Researchers can set up their laboratories and hire assistants within a short time compared with other top research destinations. The support extends to purpose-built infrastructure and facilities, equipped with cutting edge equipment that is accessible to a community of researchers working in strategically co-located laboratories. The set-up encourages interdisciplinary research as well as collaboration with corporate partners for commercially relevant research work.

 One key advantage of being based in Singapore is that English is the official working language, which eases communication amongst researchers from diverse nationalities.  Another appeal factor is the strong enforcement of intellectual property rights – something that reassures innovators and multinationals that their research work is protected and secure.

 So far, the strategy has worked in attracting the world’s leading scholars and innovators to pursue breakthrough projects here.  Singapore’s list of resident scientists, researchers and engineers – numbering about 6,700 – hail from diverse fields, countries and backgrounds, creating a lively global scientific community. They have published papers that have helped Singapore become the most prolific research destination per capita in the world. 

 Singapore Research Virtual Career Fair

So if all this seems appealing and you fit the bill, pre-register for free at www.contactsingapore.sg/research/vcf/oct2011 for the fair which starts on October 10, at 6pm San Francisco time and 10 pm New York time.