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Wednesday March 12th 2014

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Are Singaporean PMETs hungry enough?

50-year-old PMET with engineering NUS masters degree »

Hi Gilbert, I read your articles about Master degree holders not holding proper JOBs and decided to contribute. There are many of my classmates who are [...]

Highlights

Whistleblower account of an ex-employee on ACP »

Hi Gilbert I want to recount my bad experience working with ACP [...]

28-year-old PMET forced to pay $1500 for failing to »

Dear Gilbert, I am Terence, 28, an ex-civil servant. I quit the service in [...]

Registration: “How to survive »

Dear Friends, Transitioning.org is conducting a support workshop on how to [...]

Foreign Vs Local Workers

Why Western expats will not convert to become Singapore »

“Yes, here is my take as a Singapore from a WESTERN country. If they made Singapore citizenship more attractive, i.e. allow dual citizenship , I [Read More]

My Daily Thought

An appeal to transport minister Lui Tuck Yew to halt the »

Dear Minister Lui Tuck Yew We refer to [...]

Press release: Mass protest on 25 Jan (Sat) at 5pm at Hong »

Press release: Mass protest on 25 Jan [...]

Press release: Online petition to ask MOM to withdraw work »

Press release: Online petition to ask [...]

Transitioning.org has received a few mails lately from Singaporeans who were dismissed from their jobs. Half of them were carried out in acriminous circumstances and we have to advise our disgruntled readers how to better manage their situations given the [Read More]

More Surviving unemployment Headlines

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Jobless ex-civil servant of 23 years finding the journey tough but pressing on

Hi Gilbert, I've read the article about the struggle faced by the NUS Engineer to know that you had written an ebook on how to survive unemployment and would like to request for a free copy of the ebook. I too was faced with the same situation when I chose to resign from my comfortably-paid civil servant job last Dec after 23 years. I must [...]

Jobless NUS engineer who earned $100,000 before willing to reduce salary by 30% but to no avail

Our locally-trained engineers have a tough time looking for work now especially when they are used to high-income positions in the good old days. Foreign-trained engineers have came in to replace them at more than half their cost and the story “Who move my cheese” became an ugly reality for many of them here. Patrick wrote to us last [...]

Online interview: Thoughts and struggles of a IT graduate just fresh out of university who earns $1500/month

We have recently received more emails from Generation Y fresh graduates than before seeking assistance and hopefully this trend does not persist as the adversity curve of most of our young people is still untested. It will be a sad day for us if our fresh graduates face the same sort of unemployment problems older PMETs are facing right [...]

46-year-old overseas graduate who earned $4000 jobless for 2 years and contemplates becoming sales assistant

I am a 46-years-old overseas grad and have not been holding a perm job since I quit from an executive position earning about $4k in 2011 due to indecent demands from the male boss who happens to be the owner of the company. I thought that with my qualifications and work experience getting a similar job with slightly lower salary is not a [...]

Jobless PMET: “Will Singapore have a highly-educated but low-incomed workforce, marginalised by foreign managers, and largely ignored by the»

I have been writing in for jobs from December last year till now and also met up with my network of search companies, and have discovered some very interesting findings. The reported foreign-talent issue in Singapore is a real challenge to the Singaporean-citizen workforce. Here are some of the findings I have uncovered:- 1 The asking [...]

Estrangled Malay woman taking on two jobs to feed family of eight

Dear Mr Goh, Really, thanks alot for your kind gesture in sincerely wanting to help people without any motive save to benefit humanity. God can see that and will ensure your organisation prospers by raising up more like minded people like you! I am only a petite lady but am taking on 2 jobs to feed my estranged family of 8 with no support [...]

A sisterly lament on how her brother suffered from the population white paper

A brother displaced by foreigners - as shared by Zarina JaffarThis is my brother, Zainal and his family. I was surprised to see him on that grass patch been interviewed by Gilbert.I was even more surprised to hear him mentioning "the root of all our problems come with the PAP ambition of wanting the 6.9 million population". At that moment I [...]

Back-to-work mum distressed over infant care for new born baby

Hi Gilbert, I just returned to work after my 16 weeks of maternity leave end of Jan and my baby is placed in an infant care while my husband and I work. As my office had moved during my maternity leave, it now takes me 1.5hrs to travel from home to office. Most infant care in Singapore operates from 7am to 7pm and in order for me to fetch my [...]

Canadian PR of four years who earns $4700 laments about racism in Singapore

I am Caucasian and married to a local Singaporean. I have lived in Singapore for about four years; previously I lived in China, the UK, Canada, and when I was much younger Germany and Malaysia. I have visited India a few times and have had friends of many cultures. As with other countries, Singapore is a really good place to live if you [...]

42-year-old PMET jobless for 6 months and received only three interviews after sending out 120 applications

Dear Gilbert, I have been following your website for many months now. I enjoyed reading your articles and I admire the support you have given to those who seek for your help. Like them, I am unemployed at the moment and have been for 6 months. This is the longest stretch of unemployment I ever had and I am beginning to feel depressed [...]