By Gabriel Chen

SINGAPORE Management University student Huang Jian An has a year to go before he graduates.

The third-year accountancy student is already nervous - not surprising, given the crisis in the financial markets.

He is sweating it out late at night filling in application forms, chatting with senior students and preparing himself for a bank internship to get a headstart in the highly competitive job market.

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