NUS Grad : $1000 salary is good

[popdod]

BUSINESS graduate Noor Lilana, 23, is no longer looking for a management trainee position and a quick rise to the top rungs of the hospitality sector.

Instead, she is now prepared to accept a $1,000-a-month job working at the reception desk of a small hotel.

She had been looking for a job in the hotel industry since graduating from the National University of Singapore (NUS) in June last year.
In December, after being turned down repeatedly by hotels, she enrolled in a course for a certificate in hotel services.
She did so in the hope that when she finishes the course next month, she will be able to get a job in the hotel industry.

'Right now, it is okay for me to start at the bottom and earn $1,500, $1,000 even.
Some grads may disagree but in the long run, I am sure this move will pay off as I move up the ladder,' she says.



Sauce: http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking+News/Singapore/Story/STIStory_324120.html





This give employers a good excuse to cut pay
and lower grads. wages.


More good years ahead.

 

[Pastors_of_CHC_Sucks]

haha.. that means those under degree level will get less than 1k/mth? this NUS minah really spoiling the market.

 

[popdod]

Or either that ....our ST is painting a bright future....
Urging all grads do not be picky.....just grab any jobs.

Btw, what is the rate for Geylang nowadays?
1 month can earn 1k?

:p

 

[Conan the Barbarian]

Maybe minah wants to relak one corner, thats why want to work as recep.

 

[Pastors_of_CHC_Sucks]

Maybe minah wants to relak one corner, thats why want to work as recep.

thats what i think too. you know their pattern mostly all lazy type.

 

[The_Hustler]

First world country, $1000 for grads?

Tsk tsk,

 

[Dounut]

thats what i think too. you know their pattern mostly all lazy type.

Wasting Tax Payer's $$$ to pay for her University Fees while depriving others from a chance to receive a territory education ! !

 

[sufferwell]

1k salary good enough..
thanks to PAP, at least not working as maids in other countries or being raped when was little girl..

 

[Satan]

Grads drawing $1k salary and MIW ministars drawing $millions???? What a fucked up country.

 

[myo539]

So what if you are a grad? Singapore doesn't owe you a living, neither does PAP.

You need to work hard on your own merit. If Minah is happy earning $1000 a month, who are you to say that she is not smart? As a pretty front officer personnel Minah may hook one rich men one day, notwithstanding the small hotel she is working in at the moment.

 

[The_Latest_H]

A waiter can earn as much if one's full time. I see no reason on why she spent time to get a business degree when she's earning as much as an O level waiter waiting to go on to a polytechnic.

In the end, myo, its not about is she willing or not. That is a different matter altogether. What's more important is that there is a negative impact on the country itself and on the person him or herself.

It points to a fundamental flaw in our labour policy set by this government, and the neglect this government has shown to every single employee. This is because when each one of us is educated, most likely or not, the best way to return one's efforts into his/her studies is to employ him/her into a job that fully maximises his/her knowledge, and ability that one learns in poly and/or university.

But if she's underemployed, or unemployed and underpaid, and not paid, then this country suffers as good people who should be employed with good wages are not and are instead wasting away in menial jobs that has little or no improvement in wages and in job promotion. Good people who have studied and are stuck in dead end jobs reduce the overall productivity of all workers and this simply affects the overall economy.

You can say its no big deal, myo, but the fact is that you have underestimated the overall economical impact on the country, when people are underemployed and underpaid, especially if they are capable of doing more in a better job with higher wage and promotion prospects.

 

[downgrader]

that s the right attitude

she is willing to downgrade. if there are many like her there is hope for the future

those who use father monther money go study foreign mab are scum, cannot contribute but take take take

noor is the can-do spirit

BUSINESS graduate Noor Lilana, 23, is no longer looking for a management trainee position and a quick rise to the top rungs of the hospitality sector.

Instead, she is now prepared to accept a $1,000-a-month job working at the reception desk of a small hotel.

She had been looking for a job in the hotel industry since graduating from the National University of Singapore (NUS) in June last year.
In December, after being turned down repeatedly by hotels, she enrolled in a course for a certificate in hotel services.
She did so in the hope that when she finishes the course next month, she will be able to get a job in the hotel industry.

'Right now, it is okay for me to start at the bottom and earn $1,500, $1,000 even.
Some grads may disagree but in the long run, I am sure this move will pay off as I move up the ladder,' she says.



Sauce: http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking+News/Singapore/Story/STIStory_324120.html





This give employers a good excuse to cut pay
and lower grads. wages.


More good years ahead.

 

[jixiaolan]

$1000? Lower than ITE pay. Uniquely Singapore!

 

[The_Latest_H]

$1000? Lower than ITE pay. Uniquely Singapore!

In Australia, in the hospitality sector, a young graduate may get at least $3000 as the starting pay if she's working for a bigger company or for the tourism board.

If not its a bit less, and a cut of the profits if one's working for a small company.

 

[char_jig_kar]

good, very good. if economy erode further down, then pay her 800. gotta bite the bullet? got job better than no job right?

 

[po2wq]

spend so much moni study 4 wat? ... wasting moni oni ...

hv so many univerct 4 wat? ... study oredi oso cant get gd job ... go n close down all ze uni betta ...

 

[The_Latest_H]

spend so much moni study 4 wat? ... wasting moni oni ...

hv so many univerct 4 wat? ... study oredi oso cant get gd job ... go n close down all ze uni betta ...

Universities are good overseas because it does open up more job prospects for people who have furthered their studies, and gives them a chance in doing what they have talent and potential in.

The fallout here is that Singapore, even more than those in the West and in East Asia, has a fundamental flaw in the labour system. As I pointed out in my earlier post, a country's labour policy that encourages companies to lay off workers even during the good times, encourages the creation of jobs that underemploy and underpays new workers, encourages the wage gap between the well-off and well connected against everyone else, and finally encourages the impression that the creation of underpaying/under employing jobs will somehow cover up the fact that more high-paying jobs has been lost, and that the wrong impression that people are fully employed when they are not.

All these reduce productivity, and undermines the morale of everyone else. This also increases the burden on people who have higher-paying jobs to support those who are underemployed and underpaid. Also, this example shows that when there are more people like Lilana being resigned but hopeful, willing to take such a low wage despite her degree, the chances of them being resigned, disappointed and angry after a few years of working in such a dead end job will overall, again, depress everyone else, and this has an impact on productivity. Angry, disappointed and resentful workers often don't become productive workers, and these are the people who will be willing to jump ship if the opportunity presents itself.

 

[guy2100]

thats what i think too. you know their pattern mostly all lazy type.

An obvious comment from someone who does not have malay friends. ;-)

 

[pia]

that s the right attitude

she is willing to downgrade. if there are many like her there is hope for the future

Downgrade from what? She hadn't even started!!

From zero to zero is not downgrading.

 

[JadedBeach]

tourism's ebbing in singapore and it will be hard, if not impossible, for new grads to enter the industry in 2009. as it is with the banking/finance sector, there is increasingly more experienced people out there on the street asking for less.

good luck to the new batch of graduates.


juz beach

BUSINESS graduate Noor Lilana, 23, is no longer looking for a management trainee position and a quick rise to the top rungs of the hospitality sector.

Instead, she is now prepared to accept a $1,000-a-month job working at the reception desk of a small hotel.

She had been looking for a job in the hotel industry since graduating from the National University of Singapore (NUS) in June last year.
In December, after being turned down repeatedly by hotels, she enrolled in a course for a certificate in hotel services.
She did so in the hope that when she finishes the course next month, she will be able to get a job in the hotel industry.

'Right now, it is okay for me to start at the bottom and earn $1,500, $1,000 even.
Some grads may disagree but in the long run, I am sure this move will pay off as I move up the ladder,' she says.



Sauce: http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking+News/Singapore/Story/STIStory_324120.html





This give employers a good excuse to cut pay
and lower grads. wages.


More good years ahead.