Adam Khoo prefers to hire FTs than locals

last SG · 2010-01-04T20:32:58+00:00

If he or whoever does his HR work actually looks through all the CVs, I'm fine with that. However if locals get filtered out first due to some unwarranted pr...

Medicated Oil SG

It is all about options and knowing it and using it.

If the foreigners can get a house and rent their house here, we can do the same.

The key difference for me is that they can come here to study and stay on our expenses and compete with us on the limited space and job.

Every businessmen would want to maximise their profit through their staff employment.

When you are the boss, you will do the same stuff also.

So, if you want more pay and more exposure, you should venture oversea.

angel7030 SG

When you open the door for people to come in, you can't blame those people coming in, because they are innocent, they are lure/invited here, and they also take the risk and agony of leaving their own country. Just like you and me, we will venture overseas if there is no future here.

Now who opened the door? the govt right? so you should blame the govt, but then the govt tell you, with a diminishing and aging population, are we going to sit still and do nothing resulting in a future population labour shortage to support our economy, our dollars value and our land. No right?

Therefore, the understanding of the true intention of what the govt is doing now, is critical for one to appreciate and understand before blaming other peoples. It is for our future. If we dun plan now, we plan to fail.

No_10_Tomas SG

Must look for your own country leaders who are asking for millions of dollar in pay while their counterpart from much larger economy are paid only a small portion of that.

Singaporeans should be looking for expat leaders.

true, ask our ministers whether they are willing to work for lesser pay

if govt wants singaporeans to be modest in their expectations, they should take the lead first

we want "cheaper, faster and better" govt

Medicated Oil SG

Where else in the whole world that give you ZERO responsibility and ZERO accountability and Million DOLLAR pay cheque more than Obama ?

When you fought so hard and lick so hard to get there, of course you WANT your reward and that is not modest.

After 3 weeks of partying, the FM finally wake up to say something when ONE BRAVE CITIZEN and 300 FELLOW TRUE SINGAPOREANS have come forward with petition to demand for compensation to the accident victims.

But, what was said was plain rubbish.

Lesson Learnt: We fellow Singaporeans have to stand united against forces that try to run over us or else dun expect any Men In Black to come forward to fight for you.

They are the same pigs but wearing different colour.

likeyou SG

Local want to work but due to family and kids and aged parents, if they take $2k per month, they gonna die of hunger.

Rovingswordsman SG

Another stupid propagation of the popular myth about foreigners being more hardworking and willing to work longer hours.

Having worked with these so called foreign talents like the Burmese and Filipinos and others from third world countries, I have seen for myself that they are willing to work long hours only if there is overtime pay, but do they really work during the overtime?

Of course not! When the employer is not around they will be goofing around like reading newspapers, surfing the internet or chatting on MSN or Skype or sleeping at the company stair well if not the conference room. One of the main reason for "working" long hours is because there is free internet at the workplace which they cannot afford because the pay is low and expenses are high which they would soon discover within a month of working here. And they always have these homeboy gatherings, and that's where the problem starts to get worse. They are always comparing pay. For $50 more they will quit their job. The employer will soon realise that they are always on MC, which in reality they are going for more job interviews.

Chew Bakar SG

The office is air-con.

dukedracula SG

what's wrong with asking $2.5k for fresh grads..this is pretty much the minimum wage these days for executives...they need to save up and buy the ever increasing property prices for their 1st home. foreigners have little stake and do not intend to settle down here, $2k is plenty to spread around back where they come from....khoo is a nut head to judge locals, would he be prepared to accept $2k if he weren't the one hiring? for one who uses short term hysteria to motivate, his outlook of locals is very negative....

Arapahoe SG

You know if a person don't work for monies and you cannot motivate the person for monies in a private run organization....I would be very afraid that one day the cheap employees is going to steal my customers or product knowledge to start his/own business.

Hello Kitty SG

*pui*

dos r not expats loh.

Stevenson101 SG

Well, i'm sure Adam Khoo and the government would be very happy together with their foreign employees.

I for one, do not intend to play gooseberry.

noahnoah SG

Adam khoo love PR..

maybe he also intent to become

a member of MIW too

soul_rage SG

Well, i'm sure Adam Khoo and the government would be very happy together with their foreign employees.

I for one, do not intend to play gooseberry.

Adam Khoo is borned with a silver spoon in his mouth.

He has no idea the issues affecting the average Singaporean.

Similar to our govt. They have no idea about the pains of the average Singaporean because to them, increasing a bowl of noodles from $3 to $4 is nothing much to them.

The crux of the problem lies in making it too easy for employers to employ foreign labour (they are NOT foreign talents). And employers like angel7030 will try all means to circumvent any restrictions, such as putting her grandma as an employee of her company.

the Bear SG

but seriously, no one has addressed this question yet:

what if the FT is more value for your company than the Singaporean?

if you owned that company, who would you hire?

noahnoah SG

but seriously, no one has addressed this question yet:

what if the FT is more value for your company than the Singaporean?

if you owned that company, who would you hire?

I think any bosses will want to save cost

If i can save cost

Sadly, I also will hire PRs

Because bo bian one

Co only want profits and cost saving

not doing some charity work ya

soul_rage SG

I think any bosses will want to save cost

If i can save cost

Sadly, I also will hire PRs

Because bo bian one

Co only want profits and cost saving

not doing some charity work ya

That's the issue.

If you allow short-sighted bosses to hire only based on the most simple rule (cost), then all hell breaks loose

The most successful companies don't hire based on that simple rule, but look more towards how a candidate fits into their organization.

Chew Bakar SG

but seriously, no one has addressed this question yet:

what if the FT is more value for your company than the Singaporean?

if you owned that company, who would you hire?

Hire the appropriate; not base on if one is a local or foreigner.

the Bear SG

Hire the appropriate; not base on if one is a local or foreigner.

so there.. that's the answer isn't it?

what short-sighted, long-sighted whatever..

if a foreigner can do a job better and cheaper than a local, i'll hire him.. if a local can do the job better and cheaper than a foreigner, why the hell should i hire the foreigner...

now.. Adam Khoo can hire whoever the hell he wants.. that's his business... if they're good for him, good..

ultimately it comes down to that.. choice..

or does the idiots out there in SC want the MIW to remove that choice from them? maybe they do.. so that they have something else to kpkb about...

Chew Bakar SG

so there.. that's the answer isn't it?

what short-sighted, long-sighted whatever..

if a foreigner can do a job better and cheaper than a local, i'll hire him.. if a local can do the job better and cheaper than a foreigner, why the hell should i hire the foreigner...

now.. Adam Khoo can hire whoever the hell he wants.. that's his business... if they're good for him, good..

ultimately it comes down to that.. choice..

or does the idiots out there in SC want the MIW to remove that choice from them? maybe they do.. so that they have something else to kpkb about...

that why headhunters have their business.

Stevenson101 SG

but seriously, no one has addressed this question yet:

what if the FT is more value for your company than the Singaporean?

if you owned that company, who would you hire?

My question is how do you determine whether an FT is more value?

I'm not unreasonable, it's hypocritical for me to work towards being a FT in another country but cannot tolerate FTs in my own country.

But my question is how do you measure that? How do you determine by resume whether this FT would definitely perform better than a local?

Wouldn't the HR guy responsible receive more recognisation if he/she could hire someone on paper with the same qualifications but lower salary? The hiring system is going to manned by humans no matter how automonus anyone makes it, if it is manned by humans then it would definitely be selfish by nature.

People paid to get their degrees and they want to get a equivalent salary in return for the effort and money they put in to get it. These people with masters who ask for 500 less didn't have to pay as much as locals to get it (I'm sure they're Chinese/Indians/Indonesians/Vietnamese/Burmese , you expect a Westerner to take 2,000 sing dollars for a starting salary?)

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