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Originally Posted by Unregistered
(Post 19888)
Agree. Either you have a extremely good academic achievements or you have worked in a blue chip company before will you get the attention.
Speaking of blue chip companies, I hope to ask the forummers here - would you work in a blue chip company and be ordinary or you will work in a relatively unknown/smaller company but is able to shine above others at work?
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The FT policy has severely undermine our apprentice system in the industries. Before, I remember we have engineers of A levels, ITE, diplomas. That was 1997 Thomson Multimedia.
Companies trained them. My first manager was a ITE, my first supervisor, a senior engineer got only dip. Another senior engineer of my dept was just A level. The division manager is from Physics degree.
Those were the days you do not need a degree to become engineers or managers. You just need to work hard. The company train you.
Nowadays, even the most hardworking fresh grads are jobless. Today, I see no company willing to train. Everyone must perform on day 1 or get fired tomorrow. Hence, a company will rather take FT if he got 1-2 years home ground experience than Singaporeans. Even though Singaporeans may be more clever or hardworking.
This is due to our clever HR and managers. They cut cost here and there, making everything lean and cheers when see things work. In many of my previous companies, redundencies are cut. True, things keep going if 1 extremely competent engineer is around. But if that engineer left, what should managers do? They will definitely not replace the position by fresh grad. In the past, the followers or trainee of the experts will take over when he left. That creates a junior position for fresh grads.
Our current batch of politicians, leaders and managers do not understand that they are undermining the whole engineering ecology. They are screwing a whole generation of young people.
The narrow validity that companies "cannot find engineers", is not due to lack of engineering graduate per se. But rather, a system shortage that requires every position to be fill up by experience candidate through external hiring. If senior positions could be filled by internal promotions which in turns create a vacancies in junior positions, there will be no shortages.