FAP says critical to build core SG workforce but…

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March 28th, 2014 |

Author: Contributions

At a forum on integration organized by the German think tank and PAP-affiliated Institute of Policy Studies, PAP MP Zainuddin Nordin who is also chairman of OnePeople.sg, once again parroted his Party’s vacuous message that it was important to build a core Singaporean workforce.
Zainuddin and the PAP’s message rings hollow when one looks at the financial sector which continues to hire foreign PMETs in large droves.
The predilection among many foreign and some local banks for foreign PMETs is personified in this statement by the former CEO of Standard Chartered Bank in Singapore, Mr Ray Ferguson:
“If you look at it from our point of view itself, we would not have been able to grow to be where we are if we had said that we got to have a Singaporean-only focus (in hiring) for the last 20 years.”
So as a reflection of that, it is not surprising that out of the three local banks here, two have foreigner CEOs.
And Standard Chartered Bank which recently locally incorporated its Consumer Banking arm has again hired a foreign Indian national to replace Ray Ferguson who has gone on to join Arab Bank in Bahrain.
Last but not least, we wonder what Zainuddin Nordin has to say about SingPost and its 39 year old Austrian CEO?

The Alternative View

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[Leongsam]

When Singaporeans become as talented and as skillful as those foreigners, they will be able to take over the helm.

 

[Papsmearer]

Why is a govt agency like Singpost run by an Austrian FT?

 

[Satyr]

Why is a govt agency like Singpost run by an Austrian FT?

Because the alternative might be a retired SAF general. We all know how that is likely to turn out. We may have been misjudging the PAP when they say Singapore lacks talent. That could well be a result of self reflection. in other words they looked internally and said " Jeez we're screwed".

 

[laksaboy]

Yeah. Bring in all the low cost foreign workers so the Leegime's cronies can laugh all the way to the bank.

As Dr Tan Khee Giap had put it: it's all about 'competitiveness'.

 

[Agoraphobic]

That's going to be an uphill task especially when they defend each other's poor standard of written english and view them as correct grammar.

Cheers!

When Singaporeans become as talented and as skillful as those foreigners, they will be able to take over the helm.

 

[eatshitndie]

That's going to be an uphill task especially when they defend each other's poor standard of written english and view them as correct grammar.

Cheers!

and they can't even read an annual report that is like an open book.

 

[blindswordsman]

Why is a govt agency like Singpost run by an Austrian FT?

It is called outsourcing, a favourite "pass the baton" kind of escapade for any establishment which has no idea about how to run it.

 

[GoldenDragon]

Yeah. Bring in all the low cost foreign workers so the Leegime's cronies can laugh all the way to the bank.

As Dr Tan Khee Giap had put it: it's all about 'competitiveness'.

Who's the char bor? Not bad looking. She must be on guard against 2 out of the 4 men

 

[xingguy]

Who's the char bor? Not bad looking. She must be on guard against 2 out of the 4 men

Char bor is Katherine Lee Lih Leng
Deputy Chairman, BreadTalk Group Limited.

 

[rushifa666]

She can take three. One will be the camera man