British travel, fashion and beauty video-blogger Georgia Caney explained in Youtube how easy it is for foreigners to land a job here in Singapore. The blogger who blogs on Youtube at ‘The Vintage Vision‘ know lives in Singapore. She said that it took her about 2 months to land a job after she arrived in Singapore.
(See the full video by the Briton here: WHAT’S IT LIKE TO LIVE IN SINGAPORE? | Q&A!)
She said that she know of people who arrived in Singapore to search for jobs, got one after searching for a short period of time.
“Like pretty easy I would say…like it never really been an issue and they have…it’s really not too difficult.”
She also said that foreigners who are thinking of moving here to work need not also have a degree – that the employers here look more at work experiences of such foreigners.
She said that some companies will say “Singaporeans only”, but others will sponsor such foreigners for an employment pass.
As previously reported, convicted child sex offender and Contact Singapore’s poster boy, 39-year-old Joshua Robinson, did not even have an undergraduate degree when he came to work in Singapore. According to Robinson’s profile in Blogger, he only had an associate’s degree in Computer Animation from the Illinois Institute of Art.
(Read also: Joshua Robinson did not even have a Bachelor degree)
Manpower Minister Lim Swee Say recently announced that he had taken 50 companies to task for failing to give Singaporeans fair consideration when hiring. Also, more than 500 Employment Pass applications from these employers have been rejected by his Ministry or had been withdrawn by the respective companies.
It was also revealed that at the end of February this year, there were 250 companies on his watchlist, up from 100 at the start. These are companies that were singled out or reported for discriminating against the hiring of Singaporeans in favor of foreigners.
(Read also: Minister Lim cries in Parliament and says FTs don’t take jobs away from S’poreans)