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Old 15-11-2020, 09:34 PM
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I have been working in some global MNCs, and I can partially agree to some of these points.

Point 2 is true. usually, those are transfers from Head Office. It depends on the original country. But the FCF will necessitates hiring of locals. To be fair, these investments belong to the rightful owners, and I think it's their prerogative to decide who is their management..naturally, expats are deployed to SG for a specific reason. As long as they adhere to hiring local quotas, I think its still acceptable. They are here obviously for a reason, to bring in FDIs. People should be accepting to them, so long they adhere to hiring local quotas.

Something that we might overlook is this. There are many M'***n educated PMETs chinese (with degrees) who request to be transferred to SG, by nature of the global operations of MNCs. Or if they can speak a foreign language, MNCs likely hire them and place them in SG. I have seen many cases. To be honest, on first sight, are locals likely to see them as same? The answer is likely yes since its hard to tell. Are they competing with S'porean born local/private uni graduates, and can we fill up those role with our own folks with skills upgrading? The answers are likely yes. Is it fair? I think likely the answer is No.


We need good PMETs, who can value-add to the nation yet treat locals with respect & good attitude. If we manage to find such people, we should do our best to keep them. If they are just here to leech, we should be cautious.


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That still doesn't solve the problem. Because:

1. Companies do not want to invest in training and developing locals. And i am not referring to mere certifications/qualifications.

2. MNCs would rather place people from their Headquarters in Management team here. Usually this is politically motivated. And these are the roles and positions that locals really aspire.

I have seen in my company how they would rather not develop locals for senior Mgmt roles. They would second people from everywhere else in Europe for 2 years. After the 2 years, they leave for some Country Manager or Country GM roles in Europe and a new fresh batch of 20 year olds are flown in to replace the outgoing Managers.

The locals? They stay stuck as senior executives forever and the reason is the locals don't have the skillset to move up although no training or development were in place at all. Of course they say there is but in reality those are just for HR records. Its really a load of ******** lol. Needless to say, the turnover is high for the locals and then we are slapped as 'quitters' and its therefore 'difficult' to find locals.

Unbelievable @@
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