BEMA Plays its Part in Job Counselling

The recent launch of the Mentorship Programme by Building & Estate Management Alumni Committee (BEMA) is timely in view of the current job market uncertainty. Under this new initiative, final year graduating students from the School of Design and Environment can now seek career advice and counselling from professionals in various disciplines in building and real estate. Available job offers are also posted online on the BEMA website www.bema.org.sg.

To manage this programme, a new mentorship sub-committee was set up by the 10th executive committee, chaired by BEMA president, Dr Teo Ho Pin, who is also Mayor of North West CDC District and MP for Holland-Bukit Panjang GRC.

The sub-committee currently has more than 30 mentors, who are well established in professions ranging from project management, contracts administration, quantity surveying, property management, town planning to property marketing.

The sub-committee is also looking into the development of an Internet-based mentorship programme using the BEMA website. “Hosting the programme online will be the most convenient mode of exchange for both the professions and the students,” said Mohd Khairuddin, chairman of the sub-committee. “With the number of mentors increasing, it will avoid the administrative and logistic aspects that come with manual matching as students will be able to select the mentor of their choice online.”