[GLGT]'I felt helpless, demoralised and lost': Unemployed Singaporeans share their mental health struggles in a challenging job market

[buttbERry]

really is not easy sia

 

[Wu-Han Clan]

one thing for sure... gen z/zillennials cry a lot more and cry louder than millennials/gen X... 10 yrs ago the job mkt oso is sux one... 10 more yrs ago the fresh grads oso suck kok one... i nt saying is gen z prob.. i saying tt our job mkt is v sux one since forever...

limpei remb my frens many take 9 mth find first job do contract job.. some almost 2 yrs.... gt business deg bt work in shipping industry finance dept this kind... contract job start salary $2k $2.3k...

Spoiler

bt hor... last time... those fresh grads in early 2000 era.. where gt chance to vote... so many grc uncontested.... 2006/2011 GE ppl finally gt chance to vote bt many old n young still politically stupid becoz many is first time voting... ppl still read ST and TNP everyday...

nw 2025 gt wht excuse??? gen Z considered the most modern gen.. v tech savvy... more brave and confident than all earlier gen combined... v current affairs aware... they are the internet generation... the smartest becoz they know so much at tt age than every gen bef....

bt giv them all the resources... last GE tell me they still stupid like a dialect boomer... nw want to cry no job a bit hard to sympathize considering gen Z has much more resources to get through life...

 

[relishmalice]

Moral of the story is just go do livestreaming and hope kumgong ppl watch

 

[Visor9999]

U r wrong

foreigners are not cheaper

Hire from Jb using WP not cheap?

 

[marksnow44]

But everyday, Ministry of Unemployment issuing work pass, S Pass, or E Pass to Foreign Trashes some even with fake certs.
You all know who are the one responsible for the current plague: PAP and the Unemployment Minister

 

[midnightinparis]

Go Reddit see all the fresh grad describing anything below 5.5k as lowball

wtf man you don’t want to JHK willing to do for 2.5k

pls just take anything above 3k and work your way up, else enjoy your grabfood career

 

[Mountainnodew]

Can consider working overseas. Got degree, they sure want you.

 

[kreja]

No thanks to TACO

 

[Travis_Touchdown]

huai felt helpless?? tot gotch the traineeship programme?? @Shion

 

[Medicated Oil]

Meet his advisor and Rambo Tan for help.

 

[moonlighter_sg]

Now companies prefer candidates with experience and no need further training.

 

[Joseph12]

one thing for sure... gen z/zillennials cry a lot more and cry louder than millennials/gen X... 10 yrs ago the job mkt oso is sux one... 10 more yrs ago the fresh grads oso suck kok one... i nt saying is gen z prob.. i saying tt our job mkt is v sux one since forever...

limpei remb my frens many take 9 mth find first job do contract job.. some almost 2 yrs.... gt business deg bt work in shipping industry finance dept this kind... contract job start salary $2k $2.3k...

Spoiler

bt hor... last time... those fresh grads in early 2000 era.. where gt chance to vote... so many grc uncontested.... 2006/2011 GE ppl finally gt chance to vote bt many old n young still politically stupid becoz many is first time voting... ppl still read ST and TNP everyday...

nw 2025 gt wht excuse??? gen Z considered the most modern gen.. v tech savvy... more brave and confident than all earlier gen combined... v current affairs aware... they are the internet generation... the smartest becoz they know so much at tt age than every gen bef....

bt giv them all the resources... last GE tell me they still stupid like a dialect boomer... nw want to cry no job a bit hard to sympathize considering gen Z has much more resources to get through life...

Problem is 10 years ago the inflation wasn't running wild
Who can survive on $2000 now?

 

[Balian]

in before people here start bashing those unemployed and saying its their problem... oh wait....

 

[xcodes]

just look around ... so many ftrashes are happily gaining employment ... who to blame?

 

[jeffrey745]

Can consider working overseas. Got degree, they sure want you.

Little to no experience but got degree can get hired?

 

[Yowe55 mini]

Dear all,

I am worried for my children and I am also struggling finding employment now. Cost of living do not stop because I couldn't get a job or a job that pays reasonable to cope with.

Confidence for the future. More good years ahead... Let us take Singapore forward together.
Thank you.

 

[Mountainnodew]

Little to no experience but got degree can get hired?

Yes. Don’t ask for too high salary. Last time when Aussie needed nurses. A lot of sinkie nurses use that opportunity to migrate there. Because during degree course, you also have internship. That is part of the working experience you accumulated.

 

[Hyruga]

Lena Ng was already in the cna article. Now repeat similar news again.

 

[animeonegai]

when outside market was bad, people flock to government jobs.
vice versa.
now no longer this trend? or all just go to grabfood, taxi and bus captain?
Anyway, this kind of article every year also will have. see until sian.

 

[Sylar22]

Dave Peter Ho is someone who is in a similar predicament as Lena, with the added challenge of being a fresh graduate.

It has been almost a year since he graduated from Nanyang Technological University, but the business school fresh graduate has struggled to secure a corporate job despite applying to more than 200 roles in e-commerce, tech sales and business development across the span of seven months.

"It's been demoralising and super draining because it's a lengthy process and involves many, many months of interviews," Dave told AsiaOne, adding that there were several instances where he had made it through multiple rounds of interviews, only to be dropped at the final stage.

But the 27-year-old shared that around 90 per cent of the time, companies either ghost him midway or never respond to his applications at all.

"Whenever this happened, I felt helpless, very demoralised and quite lost. Because when these companies ghost me, I don't know whether I've really been rejected or if they still need some time to think about it," he shared.

The Lena quite napshot