racist…period hahah…

Clearly you have no access to unbiased information in this country hence have misinformed judgments about other countries and their people.

If India is a gigantic slum then why are Singapore companies queuing up there? You have no market of your own and therefore going around the world asking for free trade. When you face competition in the only market you have (labour force) you cry foul?

http://www.topix.com/forum/world/australia/T1K4FVV6QOGPDRUDF

WORK or PLEASURE ?

Pleasure ?
Welcome to singapore !!
My Friend !!

Work ?
Get Lost !!
Bloody Foreigner.

Our own people will have a problem to curb with the influx.

Being a Singaporean, living in Singapore paying Singapore’s living standard how to compete with these Indian whose pay are meager back in India.
However if we do not allow them to come here, then job will go there, we are caught in catch 22.

The American’s presence in India inevitably resulting in the transfers of technology, hence the Indians have gained tremendous experience.

For those who employed faked Indian professionals, it is probably the system of screening is slack and too dependent on third parties. However it is better to give lower weightage to paper qualification but to take in more based on their experience instead. We can produce our own cohort of paper qualified engineers without major problem, we need not bring paper qualified Indians just to compete with locals.

We must only draw their top grade’s engineers to work with our inexperience locals to gain from their experience. There must be real technology transfer else it is better that we don’t have any of them over.

Singapore government must measure the technology gain with these people coming over to work and not looking at the dollars and cents. If our focus is technology gain then paper qualified engineers doesn’t measure up much. The net transfer of technology is more permanent while the economical factor varies at different times. In the process we must grow our local pool of professionals and not merely depending on foreigners.

There is no need to keep bringing these people and giving them PR. We must upgrade our people to be as good as them, anyway in time to come the cheaply imported people pay will rise to that of our very own or our people down to theirs. Things will eventually just balance out.

Using fake CVs is a very common problem among the Indian IT engineers working in Singapore. I came across a few who obviously didn’t know what they were doing.

Funny enough, Indian nationals using fake CVs is a very common problem in India as well.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Infotech/Software/Fake-CVs-are-ruining-IT/articleshow/1638027.cms

Employers don’t really want to know because they only want cheap foreign labour.

and from the article, we do sound like a bunch of xenophobics – which i’m pretty sure many of us are not. we’re actually very concerned with the screening process and how PRship is given. what is worse that the govt has not been very transparent with their recent policies.

furthermore, there are positions in the IT sector which lack local talent. where else would companies turn to to get good IT talent? india does have very prestigious IT-centric unis.

“The relentless influx of engineers from India and China has helped depress the wages of local engineers. Some of them are actually assistant engineers taking on the roles of qualified engineers at a lower pay.”

this is too much of a sweeping statement. you simply are meshing the influx of china chinese (who are mostly in front line service positions and labourers) together with engineers from india because it’s convenient to point the finger at them for depressing wages.

and putting “degrees” withing inverted commas suggest that we look down on indians. just because they are a developing nation, they are incapable of producing talent with legit qualifications?