For subscribers
Keeping doors open to global talent
Singapore's reputation for being open to talent at risk?
While talent is wanted for 'Team Singapore', foreigners have mixed experiences about the welcome mat
Sign up now: Get ST's newsletters delivered to your inbox
The Government said in August that non-Singaporeans made up 57 per cent of senior roles in the financial sector.
PHOTO: ST FILE
Justin Ong
Follow topic:
When the Singapore Government announced in August another billion-dollar round of subsidies and incentives to promote local hiring, Australian Paul Schmeja was elated.
The 46-year-old, based here on an Employment Pass (EP), is chief executive of a company servicing corporate real estate. He says his aim is to employ a 90 per cent local workforce by tapping customer service talent recently displaced from the tourism and hospitality industries battered by Covid-19.
