Tag Archives: PMET

If vaccination is so important to get out of this pandemic, why isn't the PAP offering any incentive to encourage people to come forward to get vaccinated?

Do you think local PMETs really have brighter job prospects? How much of our "job growth" actually went to Singaporeans?

A jobless PMET is struggling to find jobs and is stressed about providing for his family.

PMET quit his job in order to join a new company, only to realise he got played out and even have to take loans just to pay penalties to his old company.

A netizen came across a forum thread discussing the ever increasing costs of education and the stagnating wage levels of local PMETs.

I refer to the article “2nd foreign agency starts work to help PMETs in job search” (Straits Times, Jun 13). It states that “It is the second foreign job-placement agency appointed by the Government under a two-year pilot scheme. The first agency, Ingeus, started operations in April.”

A friend who has been unemployed for more than a year, after being laid off by a multi-national company (MNC) in Singapore despite sending more than a hundred applications alerted me to a job posting for IT applications analyst that was also posted on an Indonesian jobstreet website. Such PMET jobs should only be posted in the National Jobs Bank to give Singaporeans priority. So far, there are already 53 applicants (21 foreign and 32 local). The consistent rhetoric in the media that PMET IT jobs are the fastest growing jobs sector and that there is a severe shortage of Singaporeans to fill the jobs available do not seem to connect with the reality on the ground, that as I understand it – many unemployed Singaporean PMET IT professionals are facing. For those who have more information and experience on this issue – please share. What are your thoughts on the above?

Singapore can become great again if there is a reduction in foreigners coming here to steal jobs from locals. For sustainable progress, a country must invest in its own citizens and not just encourage employers to import cheap foreigners from third world countries whenever they want to maximize their profits. Employers who betray their fellow countrymen should be penalized with disincentives. Globalization is failing all around the world and we are seeing many Western countries turn away from the cheap labour and diversity at all costs approach. They are now becoming more attentive to the needs of their own citizens. Likewise, Singapore must adapt or become irrelevant.

The numbers given were actualy an estimated 11,000 out-of-work PMETs out of 860,000 residents. While if we look at percentages, this only represent 1% of the total residents in the North East, but if we were to look at real numbers, then this is shocking. 11,000 Professionals, Managers, Executives and Technicians that are jobless. Are there really going to be 11,000 out there available for these out of job PMET? Just why are the numbers that high?

A survey done recently by HR experts Michael Page revealed that almost 70%of companies in Singapore hire PMET on a contract basis. In fact, about 80% of companies surveyed indicated that they are moving towards contractual hire, rather than a lifetime job offer. What this means is that it is no longer your decision if you want to leave a company after a few years, but it is the company's decision if they want to renew your contract after the first one runs out.