FirstDate: Why looking for love in your domain makes sense
Matching within one’s industry has advantages, but there’s more to a relationship than a shared reality.
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For time-starved Singaporeans whose working hours leave little room for traditional socialising, an industry-wide filter could reduce the “search costs” of finding a compatible partner.
PHOTO LIANHE ZAOBAO
Kenneth Tan
Romance within the same organisation or sector is hardly new. But is dating within your industry the most rational way to find a partner?
When the Government Technology Agency (GovTech) began piloting FirstDate, a Singpass-verified platform that uses an algorithm to match single public officers aged 21 to 35 from different agencies, many questions revolved around what it was trying to achieve.