SINGAPORE: After leaving travel company ezeego1 last February, Norman Chew was able to get through the year doing freelance consultancy work, ...
SINGAPORE: After leaving travel company ezeego1 last February, Norman Chew was able to get through the year doing freelance consultancy work, organising tours and conducting interviews for a research team at the National University of Singapore .
Michael Page’s Singapore managing director Nilay Khandelwal said that his office saw a 30 per cent drop in vacancies between the first and second quarter of this year among companies they work with. And compared to pre-COVID-19 levels, the report said job seekers are more likely to apply for positions in a different industry, particularly those in the worst-hit sectors like construction and tourism.
“Labour market conditions in Singapore right now are the weakest we have seen since 2009,” Mr Pickering said. Unhappy with the culture are his previous company, the architect left his job in February, certain that he would find another firm.
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