{"id":15532,"date":"2025-11-12T06:56:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T06:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/cnm\/?p=15532"},"modified":"2026-03-24T10:17:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T10:17:24","slug":"episode-6-discussing-career-and-life-with-alumni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/cnm\/2025\/11\/12\/episode-6-discussing-career-and-life-with-alumni\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 6: Discussing Career and Life with Alumni"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this special edition of The CNM Podcast \u2013 produced by\u00a0<strong>Create N iMpact<\/strong>, a group of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/2dy39mw9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NUS Communications and New Media (CNM)<\/a>\u00a0undergraduate students currently enrolled in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/2r8e4p2v\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NM4207 (Managing Communications Campaigns)<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0 CNM alumni Xie Jingyi (Creative Director of BREAVACO and Master&#8217;s by Research student) and Ken Ng (Director of Operations at Parkway East Hospital) talk about their careers in development, elaborate on the skills and values they gained in their time at CNM, and offer advice for students today.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; min-width: min(100%, 430px); height: 150px;\" title=\"THE CNM PODCAST | Discussing Career and Life with Alumni\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/player-v2\/?from=embed&amp;i=rfcce-186df92-pb&amp;share=1&amp;download=1&amp;fonts=Arial&amp;skin=f6f6f6&amp;font-color=auto&amp;rtl=0&amp;logo_link=episode_page&amp;btn-skin=ff6d00&amp;size=150\" width=\"100%\" height=\"150\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Key Points in this Episode<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>04:20\u00a0<\/strong>Professional journey so far<br \/>\n<strong>07:05<\/strong>\u00a0Career-shaping moments<br \/>\n<strong>09:10<\/strong>\u00a0The skills acquired at CNM that are used the most today<br \/>\n<strong>14:55<\/strong>\u00a0Discovering one&#8217;s strengths<br \/>\n<strong>27:00<\/strong>\u00a0Advice for students considering pursuing a major in Communications and New Media<br \/>\n<strong>31:10<\/strong>\u00a0Favourite classes and fondest memories of time at NUS CNM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this special edition of The CNM Podcast \u2013 produced by\u00a0Create N iMpact, a group of\u00a0NUS Communications and New Media (CNM)\u00a0undergraduate students currently enrolled in\u00a0NM4207 (Managing Communications Campaigns)\u00a0\u2013\u00a0 CNM alumni Xie Jingyi (Creative Director of BREAVACO and Master&#8217;s by Research student) and Ken Ng (Director of Operations at Parkway East Hospital) talk about their careers 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