Foreign talent - Guilty until proven otherwise

'These reportedly included a linguistics degree from Vanderbilt University, a Master’s degree in developmental and child psychology as well as a doctorate in psychology and education from the University of Paris. 

“In 2016, we were alerted by the police that the educational certificates Brochez submitted were forged. Following which, we introduced an additional step of verifying the submitted educational certificate(s) with the admissions office of the respective universities (local and overseas) for applicants whom we plan to hire,” said the spokeperson.

Brochez’s first job in Singapore was with an educational services company, according to the Ministry of Manpower (MOM).

He later joined Temasek Polytechnic (TP) from February 2009 to January 2011 as a lecturer for the diploma in Psychology Studies and the diploma in Early Childhood Studies, said the polytechnic.
He taught for three semesters before leaving the polytechnic upon the expiry of his contract.

“In 2014, as part of a regular review of our policies, we had strengthened our hiring process to include enhanced background checks with former employers. Our HR department also contacts the employers to obtain details about the candidate’s employment with them,” said the spokesperson.

While the ministry declined to provide Brochez’s full employment history, he is believed to have separately set up a private practice in child psychology.'  YahooNews

The more I read about this cheat and how easy it was to fool our idiots in charge of hiring the more piss off I get. And this is par for the course. How many hundreds of thousands of foreigners have come and go, cheating our idiots for years, decades without being found out and laughing at the stupidity of Singaporeans, a supposedly highly educated and worldly wise first world citizens. And many are still here, probably dept or division heads in charge of well qualified Singaporeans, using their fake degrees.

Shame on all those that let this ruse to go on for so long without doing much to kill the problem.

Shame on those that did not see this as important enough to do anything.

Shame on those that directly or indirectly destroyed the rice bowls of honest and hardworking Singaporean PMETs being replaced by these cheats.

Shame on those who still have a lot of these cheats in their employed currently and not wanting to do anything about it.

This problem must be taken very seriously. Below are some of my suggestions.

1. Treat every foreigner and their certificates with a big caution, assuming that they are all fakes until proven otherwise.

2. Have a stringent regime to verify the certificates with specific procedures to be worked out by the HR practitioners.

3. Any certificate that cannot be verify must be treated as fake.

4. When in doubt, treat them as fakes.

5. Conduct a nation wide exercise immediately to root out all existing foreigners that are currently employed in here.

6. Do not simply believe that by checking with the respective universities would be enough to certify that the certificates are genuine. Heard of syndicates operating within the universities to confirm that the fakes are real?

7. Do not simply rely on past employer references and confirmations to be sufficient proof that the information provided are real. The former employers could have been duped without doing due diligence or could be fake employers.

8. The MOM must conduct a special course for all HR practitioners on how to identify fake certificates and resumes, including all the MOM staff. MOM must not hire foreigners to vet foreigners and their certificates.

9. Make it a crime for intentionally employing foreigners with fake qualifications or for not doing due diligence.

The govt and employers involved in the hiring of foreigners owe every Singaporean a heavy responsibility to kill this disease that is harming our people, country and economy. This is treason.

Singapore and Singaporeans cannot be made the laughing stock to the rest of the world, to be known as the most stupid people and the most easy to be conned by people that have poor or very low level of education, especially from their little villages, and to hire them, pay them handsomely, to manage and be in charge of our silly, stupid and daft but highly qualified Singaporeans.

Imagine Ah Meng being employed as a dept head or CEO to boss around with daft Singaporeans telling them what to do and scolding them for not performing when Ah Meng is the one that did not know the job?

Singapore and Singaporeans are so pathetic, so pitiful.