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A Temporary Stop to the Influx of PRC & India White-Collar Workers?

Dear All, First of all, I'm not biased against China and India nationals coming to stay or make investments in Singapore. However, I've noticed a worrying trend in Singapore in recent years: more and more China and India nationals are entering our white-collar workforce. This means that we Singaporeans are facing greater and greater competition from the white-collar professionals coming from these two countries, especially China. My company closed operations last Dec and I came back to look for a job in Feb. Since then, I have been searching for jobs in vain and attending countless interviews with companies ranging from manufacturing, services and civil sectors. Unfortunately, all these are unsuccessful and I even ended up cheated by a SME who initially intended to employ me but bluffed me later with many nonsensical reasons. While I'm figuring what goes wrong in my job search, I started to read or hear many many comments from the media and my friends that there are many foreign workers in our workforce nowadays. Whenever I'm taking public transport, I can hear lots of foreign accents around, mostly from China and India. These foreign workers are no longer the blue-collar workers whom we used to see in the past. What's worse is that most young Singaporeans are highly educated, meaning we will be competing with these foreign white collar workers for the decreasing number of jobs. The reasons why I don't mention about foreign workers from other countries like Malaysia and Philippines are because they don't come in large numbers and most of them will eventually go back to their own countries for good. The China nationals are especially smart and hardworking and some of them are even employed in our civil sectors before they even become citizens/ PRs. Now I finally understand why Taiwan or the United States are worried about the employment of China nationals in their countries... I sincerely hope that more and more Singaporeans will be aware of the threats from China and India in economic competition and our local job market. I believe some sort of protectionism has to be enforced selectively on some countries because free trade and labour flow do not work in some areas for the benefit of our nation. Don't forget that the combined population of China & India is 2.4 billion!

Public Comments

1. that's a really long question
2. OK ! now what is the question. By the way I am indian.