s://.straitstimes.com/singapore/training-spots-can-go-to-law-grads-keen-to-practise

s://.todayonline.com/singapore/lawyers-say-proposed-new-training-regime-could-raise-competency-might-not-address-shortage

The articles fail to realise that
1. Employers deem being called to the bar to be more employable because being called to the bar means the lawyer has been through 6 months of practice training – Not because of the mere fact that he/she has been called to bar.
2. A sizeable proportion of the 1 in 5 people who do not pursue law career after their training contracts cannot find a job as a lawyer – not because they do not want to pursue law. The ministry did, afterall, advise firms to give out more training contracts (even if they do not intend to retain everybody) not that long ago.
3. Most law grads do not actually know that they do not want to pursue a career in law until after they have done their practice training and seen the horrors firsthand.

So many unjustified assumptions…