September 2, 2025
Singapore's Autonomous Universities produced 19,803 full-time first-degree graduates in 2024, a cohort that has grown roughly 30% over the past decade and now adds to each institution's alumni pool every year (source: SingStat, Number Of Full-Time University Graduates By Sex, Annual, 2025). At the same time the overall graduate employment rate softened from 89.6% in 2023 to 87.1% in 2024, and full-time permanent employment dropped from 84.1% to 79.5%, published by MOE from the Joint Autonomous Universities Graduate Employment Survey (source: MOE, Joint Autonomous Universities Graduate Employment Survey 2024, 2025). Because those numbers are surveyed, benchmarked and reported publicly, the pressure on alumni relations to show active career support beyond graduation is measurable.
The alumni pool grows with every graduating cohort. Singapore's six Autonomous Universities enrolled about 81,000 subsidised students in FY2024 and produced 19,803 full-time first-degree graduates in 2024 (sources: Ministry of Finance, MOE Budget 2024 statement, 2024; SingStat, Number Of Full-Time University Graduates By Sex, Annual, 2025). Graduate outcomes are measured nationally through the Joint Autonomous Universities Graduate Employment Survey, which polls about 12,500 fresh graduates about six months after final exams and is the sector's core evidence base for whether a degree leads to work (source: MOE, Joint Autonomous Universities Graduate Employment Survey 2024, 2025). For an alumni network, the constraint is rarely the size of the audience, it is access to genuine, still-open roles to place graduates into.
Spacewalk gives your institution a private, branded alumni job board, so your team spends its time engaging graduates rather than trawling job portals.
Build your branded Spacewalk job board and invite your talent community in minutes
Whether you choose to stream roles automatically, invite employers or post them yourself they are automatically matched to your talent pool
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Unlike generic job boards, Spacewalk gives you a branded, private or public jobs marketplace your talent actually trust, with sourcing, matching and reporting running automatically in the background.
Personal data held by an alumni network is governed by the Personal Data Protection Act 2012, which the Personal Data Protection Commission oversees for private-sector organisations (source: PDPC, Overview of the PDPA). Financial penalties for breaches sit at up to S$1 million or, for organisations with annual Singapore turnover above S$10 million, 10% of that turnover, whichever is higher, in force since 1 October 2022 (source: Allen and Gledhill, Increased maximum financial penalties under Personal Data Protection Act 2012 from 1 October 2022, 2022). Autonomous Universities operate under their own statutes and generally handle personal data under the PDPA framework as corporatised entities.
Marketing careers content and job opportunities to alumni engages further rules. Voice, text and fax marketing to a Singapore telephone number must first be checked against the relevant Do Not Call Register under the PDPA, while marketing email is governed separately by the Spam Control Act (source: PDPC, Organisation's Guide to Singapore's Do Not Call (DNC) Provisions). Roles should only ever be matched to genuine, employer-direct vacancies rather than passed to third-party aggregators. This is context, not legal advice.
This is an illustrative scenario, not a customer story. A Singapore Autonomous University alumni team stands up a branded job board and invites its graduating cohort before final results. Instead of emailing job links, staff watch an employer-direct feed match each alumnus to live, relevant roles and see application and interview activity by discipline. When the institution reports on graduate outcomes, the team exports landings by cohort rather than assembling screenshots at year end.
With graduate-level data. Spacewalk tracks registrations, board usage, applications, interviews and landings by cohort, so your team can show what happened to alumni rather than reporting engagement activity alone.
Because the roles are curated and employer-direct rather than re-listed from public portals. Each graduate sees verified, active vacancies matched to their discipline, seniority and location, which a generic board cannot offer.
Yes. Your alumni community gets its own branded board, so the experience carries your institution's brand rather than a generic job site.
From an employer-direct stream of verified, active roles with direct apply links, matched to each graduate's discipline, seniority and location. Your team can also post roles or invite employers to post, but the vacancies are not scraped from job boards or aggregators.
No. Work-pass eligibility and any Fair Consideration Framework advertising on MyCareersFuture stay with the hiring employer. Spacewalk connects alumni to live vacancies and tracks their progress.
Personal data is governed by the PDPA, overseen by the PDPC. Voice, text and fax marketing must respect the Do Not Call regime, and email marketing is covered by the Spam Control Act.
Spacewalk supports alumni networks and careers services worldwide, including alumni career platforms for UK institutions, alumni job board software in the United States and alumni career platforms for Australian universities.
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