Jobs for foreigner in public sector.

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Minister Teo Chee Hean: Foreigners can apply for S$3,800 fresh grad engineering jobs in Public Service
By Strait Times Review /admin - April 14, 2016

In other countries, only foreigners with years of experience and accredited qualifications can apply for specialist jobs like engineering. However this is not the case in Singapore where fresh graduates from Philippines, India and China are welcomed.



Speaking in Parliament yesterday (April 13), Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean opened up his invitation to foreigners to apply for engineering jobs in the Public Service with attractive fresh graduate salaries as high as S$3,800. For those in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector, their starting salaries will be S$4,000.

In order to promote a Singaporean core, foreigners who join the Public Service will also be more likely to be invited to be Singapore citizens, as compared to foreigners in the private sector.

“The Government will pay a premium for engineers with skills that are in high demand and short supply, such as malware analysts and those in cyber forensics, or those with niche skills that are specific and critical to the Government…The Public Service will employ an additional 1,000 this year.

If there are not enough Singaporeans to be hired, foreigners will be employed. Also they could well be immigrants who have joined the core and become Singaporeans.”

Although the Deputy PM promoted “a Singaporean core”, he suggested foreigners can be part of this core.

Singaporean engineers are leaving Singapore for higher salaries and better work-life balance in other countries like US and Australia. The private sector in Singapore does not pay well, and starting salaries for engineer grads range around S$2,600. The starting salaries for engineering diploma holders is worse off at S$2,000. Many former Singaporean engineers in their late 30s and 40s are driving taxis as they could not find employment after being retrenched.

After election, here comes the promises.

[streetsmart73]

Fighting for the same pie.

Cheaper by the dozens.

[globalcookie]

it's ok... we shd open up the whole cabinet to foreigners too. Can get some 3rd world ppl in and be minister.

[amkbettafan]

If the work is related to security and highly sensitive, foreigners may not be eligible since they cannot clear background check to get the required pass....

Unless of course, they change the requirement to make it easier for FT to get those passes.

Not that straight forward as per the article.

[streetsmart73]

Originally Posted by globalcookie

it's ok... we shd open up the whole cabinet to foreigners too. Can get some 3rd world ppl in and be minister.

please get some reality stars machiam Kim K too leh.

Throw ah trump, super group

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Originally Posted by amkbettafan

If the work is related to security and highly sensitive, foreigners may not be eligible since they cannot clear background check to get the required pass....

Unless of course, they change the requirement to make it easier for FT to get those passes.

Not that straight forward as per the article.

I see lot of FT in airport security, even guards of ministers and their premises are gurkhas.

[amkbettafan]

Originally Posted by Auratus

I see lot of FT in airport security, even guards of ministers and their premises are gurkhas.

The article is reffering to cyber security, bro. Different level of clearance required here.

[hkh]

Originally Posted by amkbettafan

The article is reffering to cyber security, bro. Different level of clearance required here.

This is more serious as if they recruited the wrong people our state secrets might be leaked..........

[Occellatus]

What about those singaporean engineers in their 30s and 40s? Forget em and recruit new foreign engineers to take their place?

[Occellatus]

But i dont think contents in this article is reliable rite?