The article below is sent to us by a Japanese reader who wishes to remain anonymous.
Last week, I heard an interesting rumor that Japanese run NHK is making a documentary about "How graduates in Singapore CANNOT find jobs"! It seems like some people already got interviewed about this topic.
I'm not sure How Accurate That IS. The fact IS, Success Rates of Graduates from the NUS getting a job See an Employment rate of 80% Between -100% (most ranging the upper percentiles) WITHIN 6 months of Their Final Exam .
From my observations, Singaporeans have many opportunities in the employment market. The jobs here are diverse, interesting and offer a wide variety of wage packages. They cater to a wide variety of skills, abilities and interests.
In fact, I spoke with many business owners and they tell me the greatest productivity killer in Singapore is attributed to employees job-hopping frequently.
Many get better pay and better position every time they switch jobs.
It is difficult to appreciate how good it is in Singapore without some comparison. I can only compare the employment market here with Japan.
In Japan, it is a big deal if we cannot find a job as a fresh graduate. In 2012, 54 graduates committed suicide because they failed to find a job.
Being a fresh graduate means we are the most desired person in Japanese job market, for all the wrong reasons. Because they are fresh and easily get brain washed. Just like some man wants to get married to virgins, Japanese companies prefer fresh graduates and train them from scratch.
A lot of "good companies" only open its permanent employment door to fresh graduates. Therefore, most of Japanese university students put their maximum effort in finding a job before graduation. As soon as we reach our 3rd year in the university, we start giving up on hair coloring and trendy cloths. Then dye our hair black and wear plain suits called the "Recruit Suit" and start applying for jobs. Let me share with you a viral video about this job finding craze, it will give you an idea what it is like.
Even though we put in so much effort, only about 60% of us could find permanent employment jobs. Then what happen to the rest? Unfortunately, majority of us stay in non-permanent employment for the rest of our career. Once one become a non-permanent employee, only 10-25% of us find our way out to permanent employment within 3 years. This is significantly low compared to most of the developed countries in this world. And unlike Singapore, it is very common in Japan to get lesser pay and benefits every time you change job.
In Singapore, a freshie not being able to find job doesn't mean that they would stay unemployed or doomed to non-permanent employment for the rest of their lives.
. Singapore has only 1.8% unemployment This means a good 98% of the citizens have jobs Flip the newspapers and the job-seek websites -.. There are so many good jobs around It is a fact that Singapore is an employee's market, made more so by recent policy changes on foreign manpower.
From my observation, fresh graduates who claim they cannot find jobs -. Are victims of excessive options I'll be downright frank here - complaining there are no jobs here is akin to a girl, looking at her well-stocked closet and then lamenting there is nothing to wear.
I know there are many well-meaning sites offering advice, guidelines and statistics which makes a degree holder think he / she deserves a high position or salary. In the real world, no one "deserves" a high starting salary. It is always your skills and abilities that command what you get.
For this same reason, I know too many a non-graduate or school dropout who have become rich, powerful, successful and influential by their own abilities, without the need of any certification.
I hope the NHK will be very careful in their reporting and not end up making it sound like they have a personal vendetta against Singapore - like how the BBC had done in recent times.
Source:
http://www.moe.gov.sg/education/post-secondary/files/ges-nus.pdf
http://blogos.com/article/59239/
Job hunting in Singapore or the really tough?
Last week, I heard an interesting rumor. Currently, that NHK is that I have produced a documentary that "job hunting of new graduates in Singapore is tough" and how. That people who were interviewed already exist with any person.
Does this will be true. According to the data, among the new graduates who graduated from the National University of Singapore, students of 80% to 100% is, indeed seems to obtain a job within six months of the graduation exam .
In my eyes, people of Singapore will now see it as endowed with a lot of employment opportunities. Variety of jobs that can be in the eye in this country is surprisingly rich. To target people with the direction of the interest skill, and ability, a variety of all kinds of work are available.
In fact, our businessman friend of mine has always sighed in job-hopper who go repeatedly to change jobs in search of better work from one minute to the next. Opinion about "The biggest obstacle of productivity improvement in this country, or not lie in culture to repeat the job change frequently" and also to hear.
And many people, you have to hand the good treatment by the time you change jobs.
We will make in order to know the situation in Singapore whether the blessed how, a comparison with the situation in Japan.
In Japan, employment of new graduates at the time of failure is literally a matter of life and death.According to one estimate, of 54 young people, seems to have turned down their own lives because of job failure in 2012.
Just because to be a graduate, you will have to hold the initiative in a certain job market of Japan. Seeking untainted anything else, you like a pure white canvas, Japanese companies because many do full-time employment of new graduates target.
New graduates at the time, is when the door to full-time are usually closed many of the "blue-chip companies" are wide open. In order to connect the results somehow chance of this maximum, college students will be a painful effort. By the time of or not or will be the third year of college, back black hair, and dressed in suit recruit, it is to compete in the toughest job front. It would help to introduce the video has become a viral hit now in Japan here. I think whether anything is job hunting of new graduates in Japan,'s video can be seen well.
It even if I work hard so, students can find a permanent job before graduation, not only about 60% of the total. So, what students do the rest would become. Unfortunately, many of them, will spend remains of non-regular employment a career in future. According to one study, and 10-25% or so, the probability of young people of Japan which stuck to a non-regular employment at a time are finding a permanent job after three years, was significantly lower than in other developed countries. In general, the greater the number of job change, the more jobs you put is limited and we will also worse conditions in Japan unfortunately more.
To say in Singapore, because you could not find a permanent job in the new graduate at the time, but not necessarily career of the former would become a continuous non-regular employment. Chance to measure the catch-up is I have been given a lot.
The unemployment rate in Singapore is only 1.8%. I will be calculated from the nation of about 98% are getting a job. If Mire looking through the job site or newspaper, even when a lot of work are you waiting for you. Visa restrictions on foreign labor in recent years, the job market Singaporeans has become an advantageous situation to job seekers rather.
New graduates lament I think, difficult to find a job in Singapore, What a state you are getting lost by too many choices rather. Let's be honest. The figure is like a girl while peeping the closet full of nice clothes, you are shouting "in no wear those!" He said.
A lot of information abounds on the net. It is not difficult to find many of the statistics and guidelines, advice and various "college graduate's appropriate given a better salary and position" he said. However, in that work, I do not the "appropriate given" such as those. Remuneration of all are those given in accordance with the skills and abilities, what you should be given unconditionally and does not exist.
The helper to prove it, not receiving higher education, or even if I dropped out, it is the presence of a large number of people that open up life in only their own abilities. Influence of social economic success of their respect, and from a number of people is not necessarily brought about by the diploma in any way.
Property a must to wishing that the NHK documentary that are made currently, is at a consideration of carefully these points. In so that it does not become a thing of the only took up a small part of ---- as the works of cases recently the BBC announced that it ---- if, a personal feud.
Source:
http://www.moe.gov.sg/education/post-secondary/files/ges-nus.pdf
http://blogos.com/article/59239/