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Polytechnic graduate Dian Afiqah Salaihuddin had planned to get a full-time job after graduation so she could save up for university.
The Covid-19 pandemic not only dashed her hopes of a full-time job, she also could not extend her internship.
Then her mother lost her job in March, and her father stopped working at a gym because of the circuit breaker measures.
Miss Dian, who has a Singapore Polytechnic diploma in creative writing for TV and new media, managed to get a part-time job as a cashier at FairPrice Finest in April.
She became her family’s sole breadwinner for about six weeks until her mother found a part-time job recently.
“It was worrying because my internship company could not afford to let me stay on, and no one else was hiring,” she told The New Paper yesterday.
“I felt guilty because I have five younger siblings who are still schooling. My priority was to earn money and I had no time to keep job-hunting.”
Like Miss Dian, other fresh graduates are not optimistic about their job prospects amid the coronavirus crisis.
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