Martin Gabriel shared on Facebook last weekend that a quarter of the 100+ applications his client received for a junior secretary job came from 'applicants above 40 years of age who had previously held senior positions making much more than 3k
Martin Gabriel, who runs HR consultancy and training firm HRmatters 21, shared on Facebook last weekend that a quarter of the 100+ applications his client received for a junior secretary job came from
“More than a 100 applications were received for one position with about 25% of the applicants above 40 years of age and previously held senior positions making much much more than 3k. That’s is how bad the job market situation is in Singapore.”“I don’t want to call people out, but even here in FB, I have friends who are desperately looking for a job and had gone into depression. There is even one person who had to seek medical treatment for 2 years and was suicidal.
Mr Gabriel’s post struck a chord with many Singaporeans and drew over 300 reactions and 750 shares on Facebook. Netizens responding to his post shared their own stories of struggling with unemployment and lamented about how difficult it is to find a job here: MOM revealed that Professionals, Managers, Executives and Technicians account for a whopping 79.3 per cent of retrenched residents in the last quarter of 2018. Overall, this means that PMETs make up a staggering 75.8 per cent of all retrenchments for 2018 – 3.8 per cent higher than the total PMET retrenchment of 72 per cent in 2017.
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