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Tai Poh Nean

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Tai Poh Nean

2 July 2009

Course: Bachelor of Accounting (Business and Commerce) and Bachelor of Network Computing (Applications)
Duration: Graduated in 2008
Campus(es): Sunway campus, Malaysia and Australia
Career path: IT/corporate consulting

Study at Monash University has created a world of opportunity for Tai Poh Nean. Offered a job even before he had graduated from Monash, Poh Nean, aged 24, is now part of an international team of IT detectives ensuring large businesses are best protected from cyber hackers and fraud.

He is currently based in Kuala Lumpur, with international professional services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers, working as an associate consultant for the risk assurance services division.

The Monash advantage
For Poh Nean it is an exciting, challenging and highly technical job, something he says he could not have realised without a qualification from Monash University.

Poh Nean studied for four years at Monash University and completed dual qualifications in business and information technology. He has a Monash University Bachelor of Accounting, specialising in business and commerce and a Bachelor in Network Computing, specialising in applications (now Bachelor of Information Technology and Systems with a net-centric computing major).

He was in his final year of study when he attended a careers fair looking for work. Much to his delight he was virtually offered a job on the spot by talent scouts from PricewaterhouseCoopers who valued the Monash University degree and Poh Nean's mix of business and IT skills.

Poh Nean says the Monash name is recognised and respected by employers.

"Definitely, the brand is recognised across the whole world," he says. "If you ask any of the big companies they will have heard of Monash, particularly in Malaysia because they have a campus here."

International opportunities
Poh Nean spent time at several Australian campuses as well as the campus in Malaysia. He says Monash allowed him to go to places that he hadn't been before, to study at many different places and see many different things.

While in Australia he says he enjoyed the quality of living and the slower pace of life compared to his home of Singapore and also got the chance to go snow skiing and travel the iconic Great Ocean Road during semester breaks.

He says study at Monash University has given him an international perspective and a network of contacts that will help build his career for many years to come.

"I met a lot of different people from different cultures. I have learned how to communicate with them, which I think is very important when you are working in real life," he says.

"The global reach that it has allows you to create a very diverse network of people. You have a lot of contacts across the world."

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