Month: January 2018
Every year about few thousand foreign owned companies get registered in Singapore. At the same time, the number of foreign professionals working in the country has gone up considerably and now over one-third of the entire working population in Singapore comprises of overseas professionals. Although this year saw a number of amendments introduced on the employment pass scheme to ensure only the best minds were able to live and work in Singapore, overall it is fairly simple for a company to employ foreign nationals in the country.
Firstly companies that need to employ foreigners for whatever reason must ensure they apply for an employment pass for each of the foreign professional they want to employ. The employment pass is actually the main type of work visa meant for foreigners that want to work in Singapore. Obtaining an employment pass takes about a month and authorities would check the background of both the professional who is being employed as well as the company that is employing the foreigner. With the recent changed introduced in the eligibility criteria for an employment pass, authorities in Singapore would look at the relevant work experience of the foreign professional, their educational qualifications as well as their existing and offered salaries in Singapore. The third criterion, that of salary is an important addition to the eligibility for employment pass as Singapore wants to ensure highly skilled professionals who already have a good professional background are able to enter the country.
Foreign companies that are about to incorporate in Singapore and need to bring in staff from their head office can apply for the employment pass immediately after receiving the certificate of incorporation. Again it must be noted that an application has to be submitted for each of the overseas staff members they wish to relocate. Ministry of Manpower (MoM) in Singapore processes employment pass applications and they would ensure that the employment offered is legitimate and whether all rules and regulations are being followed.
If a company in Singapore wants to employ a foreigner who is already working in the country for another company, they must endorse a new application for the foreign professional as each employment pass is connected to one employer. Moment the foreigner stops working for the company that originally employed them, their employment pass expires immediately. Hence for change of companies, foreigners need to apply for the employment pass again endorsed by the new company employing them.
Throughout an economic depression jobs are tough to come by, and job selection interviews are few and far between, so each stage of the job process becomes more key. Initially you deliver your carefully written resume, after which you hope to get an initial interview, but there is no assurance these days. What this means is that you have to make certain your certification for the employment are what are required, and that your resume objective will stand out from the majority of others. The objective of every stage of the employment process is to take you to the next stage, so the objective of the resume is to get you to the initial interview. That very first job interview has the objective of getting you a second interview, and so on. There may or may not be extra job interviews even after this, depending on the organization and the job itself.
So, stage 1 is to get your resume into the job interview stack. Precisely how can you accomplish this? There are a handful of obvious tips here that have to be pointed out. To start with, verify your spelling and grammar, several times. It won’t hurt to have a good friend to examine your resume looking for spelling blunders, or grammatical errors, as it is very easy to miss these your self when you have been looking at the same document for hours. You’d probably be surprised at how many individuals send out resumes with glaringly obvious mis-spellings in them, a certain way to hit the reject stack. Your resume ought to be as accurate as possible. Do not provide any misleading information or something that is incorrect. Extending the truth is not a good idea, and it could easily backfire on you.
Responding with thank you letters is a good way of continuing to keep your name in front of the company staff, and obviously, you can send your thanks after each phase of the interview procedure. This requires writing to each particular person who has interviewed you, and you should make each correspondence personal and a little different to all the others. Now, it used to be that the letters were always sent by mail, but nowadays e-mail are used more often, and it is becoming the more appropriate type of connection. You could always ask the secretary, or the particular person who set up your employment interview just how the company feels about receiving emails, and go from there. Obviously, you must check the spelling and the sentence structure for each thank you correspondence also.