For graduate positions, degrees from universities accredited by the home government of the country where the university is located will be considered for appointment into the Public Service. This applies to degrees obtained full-time or part time, through distance-learning or twinning programmes, etc. Professional qualifications such as law and accountancy from foreign institutions also need to be recognised by the relevant professional body in Singapore to be considered for appointment. 

If you wish to check on the accreditation status of your degree, you can refer to this link in our Careers@Gov job portal: www.careers.gov.sg, or call the relevant education centres or professional bodies. 

The Public Service does not solely look at academic qualification when choosing candidates. We also take into account other important factors such as relevant work experience, past performance (e.g. track records), as well as personal attributes like leadership abilities. The relative emphasis on each factor and the criteria set depends on the nature and level of the job, and only the candidate who best fits the overall requirements of the job will be recruited.

Your starting salary would be determined based on:

• Your calibre (such as your work experience, skills, educational qualifications, personal qualities, etc).
• The demands of the job (such as the type of work, scheme of service that you are appointed to, etc).
• The prevailing labour market, etc.

The Singapore Civil Service has in place a flexible wage system, comprising fixed and variable components in the monthly and annual salaries, to allow the government to respond appropriately to the economic and market conditions, and link pay to performance. These variable salary components are found in an officer's monthly and annual salary. The Annual Variable Component (AVC), Merit Increment (MI) and Performance Bonus (PB) are examples of the variable salary components in the wage system.

The Singapore Public Service employs some 127,000 public officers working in 15 Ministries, more than 50 Statutory Boards and 9 Organs of State. Within the Public Service is the Civil Service, comprising more than 76,000 officers working in the Ministries and Organs of state. They work in various schemes of service, including the Administrative Service, legal, education, police, civil defence as well as other generic schemes. Statutory boards (such as HDB, CPF Board, IRAS, etc) have their own recruitment and human resource management policies. They are legally distinct and independent employers from the Civil Service.

 If you would like to find out more about the various statutory boards in Singapore, you can access their homepages for details. 

Acceptance of qualifications for employment is determined by the respective employers. There is no government authority that assesses or grants recognition to qualifications awarded by overseas institutions for employment to the Public Service, because we are in no position to know about qualifications awarded by universities from all over the world.