Foreign Talent Policy or is it "Stop the Brain Drain Policy"

robertteh SG

This citizen importation policy nicely called "Foreign Talent Policy" appears to be autocrat's answer to brain drain of thousands of own citizens caused by his own lack of motivation of citizens and constant taxing and fee icnreases and the decling economic and job prospect due to economic restructuring and policy failures.

It should properly be called "Stop the Brain Drain Policy"

the Bear SG

please do suggest a something which will stop people from wanting to leave?

there are stacks of things out there the MIW has tried, but are failing.. and have been derided by the people out there, and in here..

but there is this one common theme..

no one seems to have a solution...

we need a solution..

and please try not to taichi this to the MIW? we've already ascertained that they have tried.. which is more than i can say for a lot out there...

SevenEleven SG

it's a 2 way thingy....todays ST paper abt philippines lamenting it's brains drain of trained nurses to the West. The only advantages the West and Singapore had is the ability to pay them well enough to come over. similarly overseas are paying (both monetary and incentives) Singaporeans well enough to bail out(brains drain) of Singapore.

kramnave SG

I beg to differ, thousands may be going out but more than that is coming in. Our population now comprises 30% of foreigners and the government wants to increase our population by a couple of million more. What is coming in is more than what is going out.

Foreign talents are hired prior to coming here. We should not mistake every Singaporean as a talent, else when we send our resumes in, it necessary for the employer to grant us an interview and hire us. That is not the case.

There are also jobs that employers find hard to fill. If you take a look at money section of straits times, banks are trying to woo graduates to take up positions in banking operations and they have no qualms about hiring foreign graduates to do so. Before anybody claims that what the Straits Times reported is pure government proganda to justify hiring foreigners to compete with us, please take a look at adverts in employment agencies and online jobsearch websites.

SevenEleven SG

from 2million to 4miliion in population? percentage sometime don't tell the truth. and increase of 1 complaint from the previous history of 1 complaint = 100% increase. so that's alot?

kramnave SG

sorry i don't get you...our population is roughly over 4m of which 1m are foreigners. Govt wants to increase our population to over 6m.

maurizio13 SG

These days, 3rd world immigrants are everywhere. They are mostly Chinese, Indians, Indonesians and Filippinos.

kramnave SG

They are in countries like U.S and Australia too. 1st world countries can't totally rely on 1st world kids to drive industry.

reddressman SG

As a matter of truth, my family doctor recently migrated completely along with her husband, and many children they have.

They earn a good living but they do not want their children to grow up here. I wonder why? so stresss meh? u know or not?

reddressman SG

people from poor countries are lucky. They can have several flavors of countries of 1st world living to migrate to. Sg'reans leh? ji kay poh zong lor.

will4 SG

Which country they migrated to? Spore is becoming like HK already in term of
immigration.

reddressman SG

How difficult is it to migrate to sg compared to all countries in the world?

googoomuck SG

One simple solution to attract ex-citizens to come back is political reform.
Don't see this taking place.

Instead they are labeled as quitters...hehe

The govt is not trying to attract them back or discouraging more locals who can leave, from migrating or emigrating.

Look at the immigration policies. Importing foreigners and giving citizenship and free money like the scholarships to attract them at the expense of locals.

And that CPF annuity scheme will cause some more to emigrate. I'm sure the 377A decision will also encourage some talented gays to go. The NS enlistment act also scare some parents and their sons away.

I can't think of any positive policy that will entice ex-citizens to come back. Maybe someone here can help.

reddressman SG

I like to listen to ben goh report news. Laughing

reddressman SG

1 thing I can say for sure, 2 good doctors singaporeans left singapore recently for migration to elsewhere bringing along them their many children (cos they so rich can afford many children, yet they chose to leave). I bet they have taken out all their cpf?

2 good brains of doctorate calibre left with all their children.

WHY ?

At this point I enticipate gazelliodian replies to balance the yin and yang. Wink

other nicks of the gazellodian calibre may also reply.

gazelle, I am with you, remember? Wink

googoomuck SG

Frankly speaking, if Australia will issue PR for overseas apple pickers, the locals with limited education will also migrate. Laughing

Serious, it's not a joke. I will go.

reddressman SG

Well, so many thousands of foreigners have migrated to sg.

This proves that migration is not difficult.

It just takes time to adjust.

I think 3 months is enough to adjust.

another year, will acclimatise.

another year after that, they will call it home.

If so impossible, how does one exprain the thousands of new immigrants living here having no problem.

If foreigners can, I think sg people so super proud of themselves should have no problem as well.

googoomuck SG

Others coming here is different form us going there. Thanks to the govt, it's much easier for others to come here except those from the first world will hesitate to come here but those from the third world don't mind.

Even garang guni men and women and dish-washers, public relations officers in Geylang are foreigners. They are everywhere.

royston_ang SG

Due to the "open door" policy of the gov, it's quite easy for anyone to come here to get a PR. Beside, there really isn't much different between PR and citizenship here (which is why few want to take up citizenship as compared to PR).

On the other hand, other 1st world countries are much more stringent in their selection process of immigrant.

So we can be sure of the quality of the local talent leaving but not so of those foreign talent coming. Rolling Eyes

AndrewPKYap SG

hahaha that is why they are building more universities... they hope to keep more Singaporeans in the well because once the frog leaves the well, they realize how stupid being the frogs in that well is... Laughing