As part of our continued endeavor to serve the interests of Singaporeans, we will be offering advertising space on our site completely free of charge to Singapore companies to put up their jobs ads recruiting Singapore citizens ONLY (PRs not included).
We are currently charging prospective advertisers $20 a day to advertise their products/services on our right sidebar just below the Google Ads section.
Based on the latest traffic rankings, our daily traffic is comparable to that of major online job portals in Singapore and is about 60 per cent of the Straits Times’ advertising portal st701.com.
We have on average 12,000 – 15,000 unique readers and 40,000 – 50,000 page views per day and the readership is still growing.
On top of giving such companies free advertising, we will also write a short introduction about your company to promote its products and services.
Our only condition is that the jobs on offer must go to Singapore citizens specifically and not to PRs and foreigners.
All Singaporeans are entitled to the right to hold a full-time job which pays them sufficiently to afford a decent standard of living in Singapore.
There are many advantages of employing Singaporeans over foreigners:
1. Many Singaporeans are bilingual.
2. They are more familiar with the local culture, especially if the job involves a lot of communication with customers.
3. They do not need an additional housing allowance or medical insurance cover.
4. They are easier to train due to the absence of any language barriers or culture differences.
5. They are generally less “hard-driving” than foreigners who will have no qualms resorting to radical measures to fight for their rights, e.g. the over 200 PRC workers who protested outside MOM over unpaid wages.
To those companies which have been complaining that Singaporeans are not interested in the jobs they are offering, please consider the following:
1. What is the basic pay you are offering? With the cost of living going up, an average Singapore worker will need a minimum pay of between $1,300 – $1,500 monthly just to survive in Singapore.
2. What is the length of the working hours? Unlike foreigners who live in Singapore, Singaporeans need quality time to be with their families and friends.
3. What is the workload? Are they require to work OT beyond office hours without extra pay? Do they have sufficient days of annual leave for themselves and families?
Please understand that while foreigners are cheap, they do bring along with them their own set of problems.
Perhaps you can employ two foreigners for the price of one local, but if you train the Singapore workers well and pay them more to motivate them to work harder, there is no reason why they cannot compensate for the extra labor cost incurred by being more productive.
Swiss workers are the most expensive workers in Europe which explains why Swiss products are more expensive than those manufactured elsewhere.
The leading Swiss brands in the Business Week/Interbrand top 100 include Nescafe coffee and Rolex watches.
Though Swiss brands usually cost more than similar products from other countries, consumers are willing to pay a premium for them.
It is time for Singapore to move up the value chain to produce more highly sophisticated goods and technologies to reduce our over-reliance on foreign workers which has depressed our labor productivity as demonstrated by the graph below, courtesy of Kojakbt, moderator of 3in1kopitiam:
http://www.temasekreview.com/2010/0...-to-put-up-job-ads-to-hire-singaporeans-only/ :oIo:
We are currently charging prospective advertisers $20 a day to advertise their products/services on our right sidebar just below the Google Ads section.
Based on the latest traffic rankings, our daily traffic is comparable to that of major online job portals in Singapore and is about 60 per cent of the Straits Times’ advertising portal st701.com.
We have on average 12,000 – 15,000 unique readers and 40,000 – 50,000 page views per day and the readership is still growing.
On top of giving such companies free advertising, we will also write a short introduction about your company to promote its products and services.
Our only condition is that the jobs on offer must go to Singapore citizens specifically and not to PRs and foreigners.
All Singaporeans are entitled to the right to hold a full-time job which pays them sufficiently to afford a decent standard of living in Singapore.
There are many advantages of employing Singaporeans over foreigners:
1. Many Singaporeans are bilingual.
2. They are more familiar with the local culture, especially if the job involves a lot of communication with customers.
3. They do not need an additional housing allowance or medical insurance cover.
4. They are easier to train due to the absence of any language barriers or culture differences.
5. They are generally less “hard-driving” than foreigners who will have no qualms resorting to radical measures to fight for their rights, e.g. the over 200 PRC workers who protested outside MOM over unpaid wages.
To those companies which have been complaining that Singaporeans are not interested in the jobs they are offering, please consider the following:
1. What is the basic pay you are offering? With the cost of living going up, an average Singapore worker will need a minimum pay of between $1,300 – $1,500 monthly just to survive in Singapore.
2. What is the length of the working hours? Unlike foreigners who live in Singapore, Singaporeans need quality time to be with their families and friends.
3. What is the workload? Are they require to work OT beyond office hours without extra pay? Do they have sufficient days of annual leave for themselves and families?
Please understand that while foreigners are cheap, they do bring along with them their own set of problems.
Perhaps you can employ two foreigners for the price of one local, but if you train the Singapore workers well and pay them more to motivate them to work harder, there is no reason why they cannot compensate for the extra labor cost incurred by being more productive.
Swiss workers are the most expensive workers in Europe which explains why Swiss products are more expensive than those manufactured elsewhere.
The leading Swiss brands in the Business Week/Interbrand top 100 include Nescafe coffee and Rolex watches.
Though Swiss brands usually cost more than similar products from other countries, consumers are willing to pay a premium for them.
It is time for Singapore to move up the value chain to produce more highly sophisticated goods and technologies to reduce our over-reliance on foreign workers which has depressed our labor productivity as demonstrated by the graph below, courtesy of Kojakbt, moderator of 3in1kopitiam:
http://www.temasekreview.com/2010/0...-to-put-up-job-ads-to-hire-singaporeans-only/ :oIo:
