How I landed a graduate job during the coronavirus pandemic

Jack Tan
9 min readJun 6, 2021

Finding certainty in uncertain times is difficult, but not impossible.

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2020, if not all is a special year we all will remember for a long time to come. The coronavirus pandemic has cast a lot of doubts and uncertainty around different aspects of our lives, including those like me who recently graduated and feeling anxious about the potentially bleak employment prospects.

I graduated right into the rife havoc of the pandemic at the end of 2020, with national lockdown in full swing but I did manage to land a job within 2 months of job search. I would like to share my experience here in this article and the most important of all, to enlighten both fresh and soon-to-be grads, that, all is not lost.

Understanding the shift in economy

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The spread of the coronavirus has largely put a halt on almost all physical interactions we once accustomed to, including the familiar dining-in experience, the freedom to jet-setting around the world, having fun at a jam-packed concert, and so much more. While the pandemic stops us from performing all these activities, the actual substance of the activities remains. If you…

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Jack Tan

A Bitcoin aficionado, a tech enthusiast, an engineer, an entrepreneur wannabe, a world traveler. Find me at https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-yee-tan-13221196/.