A Singaporean who studied, worked and lived in North America for a decade felt that while being interviewed at MNCs, he kept “meeting insecure expat interviewers”.
In an anonymous post on Sunday (Sept 11), the netizen wrote: “The moment I tell them I was in North America and have an accent while holding a Singaporean passport, I feel the interview becomes an interrogation session. The interview becomes unfriendly and the questions become condescending”.
“I am not being xenophobic here, but I’ve seen this expats (sic) qualification and work experience in the Americas. They studied at mediocre universities in the Americas and the companies they worked for in the Americas are not huge either. They are just more politically correct and act more professional”.
In his post, the netizen added that he saw a lot of insecurity in his interviewers, especially the expatriate ones. He continued: “A mediocre university degree in arts/sciences is very easy to get in North America. There is a reason why you get international students who don’t even speak English going to Americas and returning with degree in 4 years”.
The netizen wrote that it made no sense to experience condescension from a “non-Singaporean who just got a degree qualification scraping off and working in random companies in the west and just speaking in an accent. (It just takes 5 years to get that accent).
In his post, the netizen asked if those in Singapore were foolish.
Last month, a young graduate took to social media after getting worried that they were being lowballed on the salary offered for a new job.
In an anonymous post to popular confessions page SGWhispers, the netizen who had graduated from a private university asked if being offered S$3,000 for an office-based executive job was considered to be low pay, especially taking into consideration today’s market and inflation.
They added that a salary of $3,000 would mean a take-home amount of $2,400 after CPF deductions.
“How to survive? Is it unreasonable to ask for a higher range of salary? Graduates 10 years ago are already earning this amount or more”, the graduate wrote.
In their post on Sunday (Aug 21), they added that while older people would often say that going to university may ensure a better paying job, “it doesn’t seem to be the case maybe because everyone’s a uni graduate now.. STRESS”.