Job vacancies for nurses and sales assistant are shunned by locals: Mom data

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JOB VACANCIES FOR NURSES AND SALES ASSISTANT ARE SHUNNED BY LOCALS: MOM DATA

Post date:
27 Jan 2015 - 1:55pm








MOM data released on Tuesday indicates that job vacancies in nursing and retail shop assistant positions are the hardest to find Singaporeans to fill.

In total there were 67,400 job vacancies as of September 2014 and 25% of them (12,330) were for service and sales workers.

Some of the jobs within this 25% were shop assistances, security guards, waiters and more.

MOM also explained in a press release that 4/5 vacancies were in the service industry.

One thing that the statistics noted were that registered nurses were the top PMET position hardest to fill with locals was registered nurses.

There were 720 vacancies for Singaporeans in registered nurse positions and employers complained that there was too much competition from other employers making it difficult to find locals for the job.

The second hardest PMET job to fill was enrolled/assistant nurse followed by software, web and multimedia developer.

For these positions, some of the difficulties were caused by an unattractive pay and a lack of local having experience.

While employers may continue to complain about a “lack of Singaporeans” for the job, one reality is that this is usually directly related to salary. If these jobs paid high salaries, would Singaporeans continue to shun such positions?







In other countries, jobs that are difficult to fill with locals will see higher salaries as employers try to attract more workers. In Singapore, companies simply turn to foreigners and continue to complain that they cant find locals for the job without offering higher salaries.

The other job which MOM cited was difficult to find locals to fill was shop assistants and security guards.

Again, these jobs have very low salaries. For Singaporeans expecting to feed their families, pay their HDB loans, and fund their cost of living, the salaries of these positions are simply too low. Again, companies that cannot find locals simple scout for foreigners willing to work for less.

With this type of open immigration policy, companies will not increase wages to attract locals.

In the end, we continue to suffer from depressed wages while we continue to see in our state propaganda that there are “plenty of jobs available”.

What do you think?


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