Dr Yaacob Ibrahim asks Malay graduates to seek job opportuni
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Dr Yaacob Ibrahim asks Malay graduates to seek job opportunities overseas if they can’t find a job here
First, Singaporeans are asked to get themselves treated at Malaysian hospitals if they cannot afford the healthcare here. Now they are told to find work overseas.
The audacious statement was made by Minister-in-charge of Muslim Affairs Dr Yaacob Ibrahim during an interview with Malay radio station Warna 94.2FM.
When asked about the difficulties faceed by Malay graduates to get jobs in Singapore, Dr Yaacob said “it is important for students to not give up their job search, and they should also be open to explore opportunities overseas.”
It is strange that Dr Yaacob is not aware of the fact that Singapore graduates from all races have difficulties finding permanent jobs which pay well in Singapore due to the easy availability of cheap foreign workers.
If a Singaporean wants to apply to work overseas in any country, he or she must obtain a work visa or permit to even set foot there in the first place.
Singapore has a unique scheme not heard anywhere else in the world where foreigners are given a year to stay in Singapore to look for jobs here:
The Employment Pass Eligibility Certificate (EPEC) allows foreigners who are i) holders of selected university qualifications, or ii) current or former holders of selected skilled migrant visas to stay in Singapore for up to one year to facilitate their job search in Singapore. The EPEC is issued on a one-time basis and is non-renewable.
Contrary to what PAP leaders have been saying, foreigners are allowed to compete directly with Singaporeans for jobs which can be otherwise be taken up by them.
The relentless influx of engineers and technicians from China and India has depressed the wages of Singapore engineers which has remained stagnant for the last few years.
Though there is a dependency quota to restrict the hiring of foreigners, it is easily circumvented by taking earlier arrivals to take up Singapore PRs.
The Home Affairs Ministry admitted that two out of three PR applicants are successful, an astonishingly high success rate for a developed country.
The state media reported last year of a China National working as a language teacher here who obtained a PR within two months of application.
Perhaps Dr Yaacob doesn’t know that other countries do not have such lax immigration and labor policies like Singapore and it is not easy for Singaporeans to find work overseas.
For example, Australia only admits skilled migrants in sectors where there is a chronic shortage of Australians and foreigners need to reside there for at least two out of the last five years to even qualify to apply for Australian PR.
It is a shame that Singapore graduates are struggling to survive in Singapore due to the PAP’s discriminatory policies against them.
What will our country become if our native Singaporeans are forced to seek livelihoods elsewhere and their places filled by foreigners from other countries instead?
The day when Singapore women are forced to work in other countries as maids may not be too far away at the rate the PAP is mass-importing foreigners to supplant Singaporeans in their own nation.
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thanks.so you are DIRECTLY telling locals to get out of country to facilitate all the ah tiongs,those from causeway,indians? entering our country's labour market?
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it is just unfair to some local degree holder/graduate
really speechless
1 taiwan co which i used to work hire 1 prc engineer at the cost sing $1800.00 without cpf that fucker is one hell of a damn apple polisher - pui
no wonder, finance course are in great demand
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lol...just one phrase from him comes a wall of assumptions back at him...
The man was just replying to a question about Malay graduates. At least he is giving a realistic opinion compared to people who bombard the PAP never giving any proper advice..
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The Malay singaporeans are doing well, time to remove the special privileges.
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where got special privileges
still, got to perform ns/ict - army or police what
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work out of singapore la.....when u work in countries like usa, europe, taiwan, japan and aust...u will realise how shit low our pay is compared to the cost of living.
and why is that so? Cos we are cheap hunting ground for FDI. And of course tks very much to cheapo bastard foreigners. And i mean those cheapo ones, not the good ones.
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I ask my Children to get out of the house so i can welcome strangers in. PFFFT!
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asking graduates not to give up their job search? Can they afford to give up? Is there any form of unemployment benefit they can fall back on? what a idoitic advice!
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Originally posted by Rock^Star:
work out of singapore la.....when u work in countries like usa, europe, taiwan, japan and aust...u will realise how shit low our pay is compared to the cost of living.
and why is that so? Cos we are cheap hunting ground for FDI. And of course tks very much to cheapo bastard foreigners. And i mean those cheapo ones, not the good ones.
You mean like this ..........that i got last week....in the worst recession where i was offered a temp job with $40/hr.......
Good Afternoon,
......................., ...................... Our records show that you have experience in XXX. This experience is relevant to one of my current openings.
It is located in Thousand Oaks, CA.
XXXXX
Thousand Oaks, CA
6 Months
US citizen, GreenCard, EAD only.
Pay rate: $40/hr. - $50/hr. w2 -
See, thats why no one wants to do engineering these days, even I thought of giving up.
I have to agree PRC engineers are apple polishers. The big influx of electrical engineers are primarily from Myanmar, most of them got double degrees somemore. Next would be Filipinoes, experts in taiji. -
yeh araphoe thats what i mean. My friend in japan earns a freaking USD 10k/mth as a project engineer. Here in Singapore, he merely gets half of that. And a friend who got posted to Zurich for a 6 months stint got 3 times his usual salary in Sg.
Even though their McD meals cost Euro$8, so what? Their purchasing power is much stronger. Here we are at the mercy of cheapo foreigners. Why are they cheapo? Because a fucking myanmar, indian or filipino engineer for example, can earn many times more than what they get back home.
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sg is good training ground for us sgreans.
after train we go other countries work. steady ?
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Originally posted by cApitaland:
sg is good training ground for us sgreans.
after train we go other countries work. steady ?
Why am I being chased out of my own home?
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The world is out there. Go out and study, work, whatever to see how other cultures think and then realise that many citizens of the world are one myopic lot, thinking the world revolves around them, singaporeans included.