Singaporeans lack talent, not creative, not innovative, unemployable...despite world best education system

 This is not what Lawrence Wong said about Singaporeans in his National Day address. This is the narrative being spread by foreigners and foreign HR agencies that are involved in the placement and selection for hiring in the private sector, especially top positions. The foreigners may also be engaged to recruit for the ministries and GLCs. The foreigners have hijacked the hiring and selection process by worming themselves into HR positions in many companies or in headhunting agencies...and they call the shot.

For a long while, these foreigners with their fake degrees or funny degrees from funny universities that are hard to verify, have been spreading this toxic narrative against Singaporeans in the job market. And in their recruitment and placement process, they would favour foreign talents and dismiss Singapore talents in a 'self fulfilling prophecy' way. 

As they keep on passing negative remarks against Singaporeans while praising foreigners, and when the Singapore authority allows this to go unchallenged, the end results, foreigners really think they are the real talents and Singaporeans begin to think they have no talent. And with each failure to get employed, they get demoralised, get to loose their confidence. The whole process becomes a vicious cycle against Singaporeans and destroyed their chances of getting employed. Can't imagine the morale of the banking and finance industry if the next DBS CEO is not Su Shan but another foreigner with funny degrees from funny universities.

The picture of Singaporeans having no talent, not creative, and not innovative, is the total opposite of what Lawrence Wong said about Singaporeans, about the high quality Singapore education system, from young to university levels. Singaporeans went through a very thorough education system with the finest teachers, finest processes constantly being reviewed and upgraded along the way that would put many foreign education systems to shame. A lot of thoughts and hardwork have gone into our education system. And Singaporean students have often come up tops in international competitions, judged by international judges and competing against the best of the foreigners for their maths and science knowledge and for being innovative and creative.

How then did this negative narrative about Singaporeans come about and being taken as the truth to the detriment of Singaporeans?  And seeing many top jobs being offered to foreigners, with foreigners finding it so easy to get full time employment here while many Singaporeans with good qualifications find it so hard to land a full time job and ended in the gig industry?

The problem lies in the hiring process when the selection committee, the interviewers, were mostly foreigners, some now carrying pink ICs, the same bunch of people with fake or funny degrees from funny universities but arrogantly condemning Singaporeans as no talent and unemployable. If this recruitment and hiring process is not address, and foreigners continue to dominate the selection and hiring positions, the excellent Singapore education system and its products, the well trained students, would not stand a chance against a system controlled and rigged by foreigners, with some now calling themselves Singaporeans but with their empathy and biases in favour of people from their former countries.

Not only Singaporeans were sidelined and by passed in hiring, when hired, they are often ostracised and victimised in the office by the foreign gangs and eventually forced to leave, appearing like incompetents.

Lawrence Wong and the MOM must take a serious look into the hiring and recruitment process, to drain the swamp of foreigners in positions that could discriminate against Singaporeans. A pink IC does not change a foreigner into a Singaporean overnight. Their hearts, emotions and loyalties are still somewhere out there. They are closer to their former countrymen, relatives or villagers than to Singaporeans.

Honestly, how many first world countries have an education system on par with Singapore's system? Then again, it is a no brainer to equate the education systems of third world countries to that of the Singapore education system. The third world fake talents with their fake or funny degrees must not be allowed to denigrate and discredit the Singapore education system and its products from their high horses. They must be taken down before more damage is done to harm our Singapore talents and our education system. Ya, it is a joke to be a product from the world's best education system but unemployable vis a vis third world products with funny degrees from funny universities...and in home ground, in Singapore! This is a sick joke. And the joke is on the stupid Singaporeans from the best universities and world best education system.

Who's fault is it to allow this negative narrative, and plight of Singaporeans, to go on for so long, unprotested, and to allow so much harm to fall on Singaporeans looking for a full time job but ended up the losers, while fake and funny foreigners could be hired so easily over Singaporeans, as better and more talented than Singaporeans?

What do you think?