Accepting Job Offers
As usual, the trains of thought of the online Straits Times readers baffle me.
In response to an article "Job-seekers reject offers", many readers have written in with their comments. These people appear to be from 2 main factions:
1. Those who have been actively seeking for jobs but have been unsuccessful, or know someone in that situation.
2. Those who wish to complain about the rising number of foreigners in the Singapore workforce.
I have absolutely no idea how foreigners in the Singapore workforce can be related to Singaporeans rejecting job offers, no NC about those comments =P.
From reading the comments from people in Faction 1, I cannot help but feel sorry for this group of people. They can see a problem, but they don't know what the problem is. Their main complaint is that they would accept any job offer, and may in fact be in dire need of ANY job offer, but none have been forthcoming; they thus feel that it is highly inappropriate for 40% of key business sectors to have received rejections.
Instead of asking the applicants WHY they have turned down the offer, I suspect these poor jobless souls should ask instead, "Why do you, who already HAVE a job, want to compete with ME who has NO JOB?"
Perhaps they have missed out an important line in the article: "About 38 per cent say the candidates told them their employers had made a better counter-offer..."
As likely as not, many of the applicants who rejected the job offers already have stable jobs. I find it disturbing that this fact doesn't seem apparent in the minds of those making the comments. Could it be that they actually can TOLERATE the fact that some people wish to better themselves and are hence looking for jobs despite the fact that they already have one?
Well then, in this case, they should not begrudge the fact that these same people are rejecting the jobs because of the unsatisfactory terms.
No. I really don't know what they teach in Singapore schools these days that make the average Singaporean unable to understand what an article is trying (or NOT trying, as is often the case with the Straits Times) us.
This fact became even more apparent when a friend told me that he believed that the article in the previous post was true simply because it was by the Straits Times. No insult intended on his intelligence here. There is just, basically, something sorely lacking with Singapore's education system.
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In response to an article "Job-seekers reject offers", many readers have written in with their comments. These people appear to be from 2 main factions:
1. Those who have been actively seeking for jobs but have been unsuccessful, or know someone in that situation.
2. Those who wish to complain about the rising number of foreigners in the Singapore workforce.
I have absolutely no idea how foreigners in the Singapore workforce can be related to Singaporeans rejecting job offers, no NC about those comments =P.
From reading the comments from people in Faction 1, I cannot help but feel sorry for this group of people. They can see a problem, but they don't know what the problem is. Their main complaint is that they would accept any job offer, and may in fact be in dire need of ANY job offer, but none have been forthcoming; they thus feel that it is highly inappropriate for 40% of key business sectors to have received rejections.
Instead of asking the applicants WHY they have turned down the offer, I suspect these poor jobless souls should ask instead, "Why do you, who already HAVE a job, want to compete with ME who has NO JOB?"
Perhaps they have missed out an important line in the article: "About 38 per cent say the candidates told them their employers had made a better counter-offer..."
As likely as not, many of the applicants who rejected the job offers already have stable jobs. I find it disturbing that this fact doesn't seem apparent in the minds of those making the comments. Could it be that they actually can TOLERATE the fact that some people wish to better themselves and are hence looking for jobs despite the fact that they already have one?
Well then, in this case, they should not begrudge the fact that these same people are rejecting the jobs because of the unsatisfactory terms.
No. I really don't know what they teach in Singapore schools these days that make the average Singaporean unable to understand what an article is trying (or NOT trying, as is often the case with the Straits Times) us.
This fact became even more apparent when a friend told me that he believed that the article in the previous post was true simply because it was by the Straits Times. No insult intended on his intelligence here. There is just, basically, something sorely lacking with Singapore's education system.
Sadded!
posted by Shelly at 11:05 PM
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