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...

likedatosocan SG

Businessmen need, sorry, its want, to earn money. The more the better.

Its expected they will hire who is cheaper , younger or accept contract, non-permanent work.

With the FT policy being so open, prolly the most open in the world, its hard to be pro-citizen.

As more citizens who are retrenched, like due to restructuring etc, and middle-aged turn to running a business as form of income, more citizens have become employers. What would these do to survive? Hire cheaper labor.

As more foreigners easily come here to setup a business or as more PRs do the same, what would they do to earn more money? Hire cheaper labor.

Having a degree or skill does not gurantee long term or permanent employment anymore these days. skills can be found in many people in this world like from 3rd worlds. The 'cheaper labor' salary is good money to them. As we age, and it is now 2010, we need to compete with younger cheaper labor who can easily come here and apply for your kind of job. There is no reason why a company should not hire a cheaper, similarly skilled labor who can work on contract and does not have to afford kids or a flat or a car or wife.

But of course many still survive retrenchments. Some even escape all retrenchments. Some born with silver spoon. Some don't know what is poverty. Some given big fat lobang.

Good luck yall. This is the system chosen.

angel7030 SG

some got work but dun want to work, blame who?? pap or the foreigners??

I example i saw was shipyard and marine industrial, recruited hundreds of singaporeans to be supervisors, train them with advancement to diploma in marine enginnering, all give up after a few months, so the yards got not choice but to ask NTS to become foreman or charge hand, and their paid is much lower, so much so that our sg business people like me, who are ethnical enuf to take our own country guys and gals with high post and good paid, many still turn a blind eyes to it.

Iwanna Humpalot SG

Angel3070,

This is not a good example leh...You said you see nia ..who believe?

Maybe if you quote your own experience like for example...

Your employer is Singaporean and you spend most of your time on chat forums chatting away about why people so hard up of finding job's...

Than maybe forumers like me ..will choose to believe you...that your employer is willing to employ a Singaporean with low productivity.

Like for me ..I'm business woman ..and I can understand why Singaporeans shun jobs that don't pay well ..because cost of living is too high ..and not because they feel like it..but some job seekers need to look for jobs that pay more so that they can feed their children.

Maybe you need to understand that we are no longer living in a "Golden Age" (Nonsense sprouted by someone old fart - and btw only last a year (lol)).

So Angel,

if you had a family of 4 to feed ..would you want a job that pays a meager wage of 1000 a month ..doing ship repairs? Your children eat dirt ...you want ah?

Angel ..this is how you give an example ..understand?

angel7030 SG

Miss Hum, why you mentioning my nick? isn't it a waste of time and space?

look my dear Miss Hum,

you are looking only at the surface value, you do not go deep into the industrial and see what the govt or the unions is trying create, it quite painsickening. The paid is not low, $1800 + O/t and when graduated after 2 years, you can get 2.5k to 3k, but our people simply cannot stand the hardship as what our forefather did, see the ship only, run liao, see bangalas workers only, siam liao, see the hot sun only, sick liao, wear helmet and those safety stuff, tired liao...so how??

Same goes my the pilot project by the Food and beverage employer's association together with govt and their unions, in a tripartite way, we worked together to form an alliance to get Singaporeans in, we share our vacancy available from hotels to pubs like mine into a career link committee who will look out for Singaporeans to match the jobs, if they are not suitable, govt can train them to match it.

I got 3 drivers who work as driver to take customers home if they drink too much, one of them is an indian national, PR status, the other two are Singaporean Uncles, there are paid $1200 per month just for driving, and yet they can also get tips from rich customer whom they sent home. When i said, look, you guys are just waiting for people get drunk, why dun you help out in some cleaning and washing in the pubs, or even wash car for customers, so that you can earn more money and i also can paid you more...the Indian PR guy was very happy, the 2 singaporeans uncles stared at me and asked, Hello, boss, you siao or not? So, typically you can see the mentality of our peoples are really sad....

soul_rage SG

Miss Hum, why you mentioning my nick? isn't it a waste of time and space?

look my dear Miss Hum,

My stand is still the same.

Import foreign labour for the lowest of jobs (that locals do not want to do). Given that the govt wants 1 in 4 Singaporeans to have a degree, I do not think that necessarily equates to us being weak and not wanting to do difficult jobs. If you ask a local to study until he gets a graduate degree, and then go and pour coffee and tea at the coffeeshops, then, why then are we wasting resources into training our locals?

Import foreign talent (EXPATS) for the highest of jobs (Senior Management, Specialists that we lack)

Leave the middle job market for locals. If businesses are given too easy a time to hire cheap labour, there is no way our businesses will mature and learn how to value personnel over longer terms.

In a way, Adam Khoo laments at the weakness of our youths. I lament at the weakness of businesses such as his (and angel7030's if she has one), in only going for cost as the sole criteria of selection, for it demonstrates that our businesses also need to grow up (as our youths need to)

Arapahoe SG

You are spot-on. It's not just rabble-rousing.

Do you notice how its all the stupid or stupider people of the society, as can be seen from their poor education and upbringing, that are the most easy and convenient preys of the propaganda and emotional rousing of the SDP and other crazed psychotic nutcases? Because these losers lack the necessary logical faculties and reason, they are unable to process information, digest and rationalise, or think through critically the various facets of an argument, the various ramifications of issues, the various consequences of something, the long and short term perspectives.

Because of their low IQ, they are very easy to target for brainwashing and rabble-rousing.

One recent example is their remarks about the Romanian diplomat who has diplomatic immunity. Their ability to connect anything, even an entirely civil matter like a husband and wife quarrelling to the PAP, and bring in the government in for a bashing, has cheaped their position to offer any constructive feedback in any manner, as their credibility is non existent.

Another recent example of the acts of these low-class and low IQ peasant lunatics can be witnessed in a thread I started about my office-related complaints. One of these low class and low IQ lunatics posted to claim I was a supporter of a political party when I'm completely uninterested in party politics, and when the thread at hand has NOTHING to do with even current affairs, let alone socio-political affairs and party politics. Later another fuckwit came in and started talking about PAP and connecting the issue about someone feeling unhappy at work and attributing it one political party!!! I know, its very very amusing to people like us.. the antics of these clowns and losers. So dumb right.. I can't imagine them even being able to get past primary 2.

These people are so stupid, I wish they would practise what they claim and get out of Singapore as their very citizenship is perilous to the future of the nation and will cause genetic dilusion.

In this debate the one key elements regards to FT is the lack of understanding global movement for Singaporean.

If you look at the Koreans they move globally and they established their business network globally. And they establish business within their community globally given opportunity for their own people.

Personnally i would give every opportunity to Singaporean even if they left Singapore because i know that they still Call Singapore home and they are the contact For singapore home grown business.

But I would not Give FT and opportunity as a steping stone cause they would treat e.g. for the sake of discussion China as their home grown opportunity.

So while the topics of dicussion is about hring foreign cheaper worker. Your notion that Singaporean fall prey to SDP propaganda assume Singaporean are unable to think for themselves. You means those that can think already left....Singapore?

Iwanna Humpalot SG

angel7030,

I like your nick.

I read what you said and I understand. So that means if your dad was one of the uncles, he would be glad to do the extra washing of cars to earn more money , is that what you are saying?

Or that if you were one of the Singaporeans who drive people home when drunk, you would work extra by washing pubs?

That would be a very good leadership on your part.

Hitman_ SG

i think angel werk in the shipyards as a welder by day....and at nite she become some kinda dancer like in da flash dance movie!!!

4sg SG

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.

This Adam Khoo fella is not borned with a silver spoon. His mother died early and was brought up by a step mother.

The thing is - it is hard to pin him down as to who or what he represents. To me, he's part ruthless businessman, part risk-taker contrarian, part brand/franchise strategist, part conman. He is building wealth the unconventional way.

Sure, he wants to hire conventional, hard nose foreign workers. Clever and entreprising locals who learn of his tactics and lobang (by this, I meant his real tactics and lobang and not those he taught in his Adan Khoo Learning School) would want to copy and jump ship to build up wealth for themselve and not for him.

Stevenson101 SG

Errr...actually yes he is borned with one. Why would him having a stepmother have anything to do with him being borned with a silver spoon?

His father owned an advertising agency, he could convert his grandmother's house with into a disco.

His grandfather gave him red pockets with Malaysian share lots! How many of our grandparents could do that?

He may be more motivated than guys who are born with the same kind of background but he's definitely not self made.

4sg SG

The impression I got was that he had to fight with his step mom for his father's wealth and her approval of him. Smile .....maybe that was just my impression. Smile

soul_rage SG

The impression I got was that he had to fight with his step mom for his father's wealth and her approval of him. Smile .....maybe that was just my impression. Smile

Every rich person's home is probably riddled with home politics. That DOES NOT mean he is not borned with a silver spoon.

Looking at his views, can see that he has not suffered before. It is very clear from the way he said how Singaporeans demand $2500 and foreigners only demand $2000, that he has not the need to eat only to survive, and save to survive.

Even now, the MOM has increased its protection of workers in its employment act to workers who earn $2000 and below. Therefore, $2500 is just slightly above their definition of those who are not earning enough, and require help to defend their rice bowls.

NG QIBO AARON AUBREY SG

they took a big gamble coming here, leaving home and family..

Singaporeans can do the same by going abroad to work and many have done so..

some wiped their butts clean and came back to Singapore while some stayed..

just like some FTs who got PR and then citizenship here and stay for good..

cruel and heartless as it seems, that's the way things go...

sporeans should have the first right of refusal for jobs in their home country

kcockicht SG

can someone tell me who the fook is adam khoo? what the big fook adam is?

xingg SG

i wonder why foreigners would come to sg and work for less than 2k per month.

if they have masters from good uni.shouldnt they be able to find a job in their own country? even if they can't find something to fit their skills, they shouldnt be earning as low as 2k? even a random restaurant manager can earn that much.

i question the validity of this claim.

NG QIBO AARON AUBREY SG

i wonder why foreigners would come to sg and work for less than 2k per month.

i question the validity of this claim.

2k in sgd is more than 20k in their home country

Stevenson101 SG

10k if you're talking PRC here, not sure about the difference in India

redDUST SG

in india, if you have a good degree or masters, and managed to get into a good local or mncs, the pay can be very, very good. my colleagues in india arguably are better paid than some of my counterparts in singapore for the same level job. they saw the huge spike in salary about 4-5 years ago when their economy boomed. while the income acceleration has tapered recently, the salaries are no peanuts. case in point, i have colleagues in india who declined job offers in singapore before, partly because the salary offered are not attractive enough.

the downside in india is they have a huge pool of educated indians there and a conversely a limited job openings in india; which explains why many would still want to leave. the wide income gap in india is another push factor.

Stevenson101 SG

sporeans should have the first right of refusal for jobs in their home country

Trust me on this one, if that becomes a right it won't be the deserving that will exercise it the most.

kcockicht SG

i wonder why foreigners would come to sg and work for less than 2k per month.

i question the validity of this claim.

usually those that come here work not no job there. usually their money smaller than ours then they come. here work and convert the money back to their own country lots more. they can, just that more money greed who don't want? so don't be so goo dto them not all are really that poor

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