The myth of difficulty getting a job in SG

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Myth 235 – The myth of difficulty getting a job in SG

December 27th, 2013 | Author: Contributions

“Singapore cannot do without Foreign Talents. Local citizens’ fear that they are competing unequally cannot be helped. Without Foreign Talents the jobs will not be there to begin with. We will continue to welcome Foreign Talents. Singaporeans have to accept the discomfort”.


Many Sinkies are crying father and mother that getting a job is so difficult in Sin City. Some have experienced writing and sending out hundreds of letters without a reply. As for the PMETs, they know what it is like and many refuse to apply anymore, and have given up hope. Same goes for those above 50 years old, also no hope, has beens, finito, unless they are very well connected.

This is the general impression given and repeated in cyberspace. There are so many horror stories posted in Gilbert Goh’s Transitioning.org blog for the unemployed. The cases sound genuine, and in most cases are.
The funny thing is that foreigners have no problem finding a job in this Sin City except Sinkies. Maybe they are called Sinkies not for nothing. Sinkies have no place in Sin City. There are more than a million foreigners happily employed here and in many high paying jobs. How can Sinkies claim they cannot find a decent job here? This must be a lie or a myth.

Many foreigners don’t even need to set foot here before landing a job. They are offered jobs in their home countries and can start work the moment they land in this island of opportunities for foreigners. And many many more are coming as Sinkies make way for them and reduce themselves to social scum, whole day kpkb for no reason but having only themselves to blame. They are just not good enough. And many Sinkies are saying so too, from the top to those quitters who come back to soak up whatever they can find here.

The only thing one can say about these Sinkies is they deserve it. They no longer know how to fight back, how to scratch, and happily let the assholes tag them as daft, lazy, expensive, timid, good for nothing, and unemployable. And everyday they can only see plane loads of foreigners happily landing in Changi to take up jobs waiting for them here.

How did this happen and for so long, and everyone is so comfortable with this state of affairs?
P.S. Max posted this in TRE:
I have a Master degree in Logistics from a top ten Australian university. Been jobless at 48, for 3 years having been laid off after losing job to foreigner. Applied for PR for my foreigner wife whom I met and married while working overseas but was rejected by ICA.Having applied numerous jobs without any response, finally found one without competition and an all Singaporeans company. Am now driving a taxi, no complains about foreigners, because 100% Singaporeans in this company.
The truth is that Sinkies have been urged to go for higher education and now find out that they are over qualified. So they must downgrade to be taxi drivers. Their high qualification has become a liability. Top jobs are reserved for FTs, low jobs for FWs. Sinkies with high qualifications are unfit for both.

Chua Chin Leng aka redbean

* The writer blogs at http://mysingaporenews.blogspot.com.


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