Mus be wondering wat the title above is? Well, the above title is in Chinese Hanyu Pinyin and i will do the translation: I can speak Mandarin but...

I hate IT!!! Luck wasnt on my side for jobs! It has been closed to a month and i still havent get a job! Whenever, i go for an interview, I was told this: We will call u back. I waited and waited and i didnt get any calls, tat means i didnt get the job.

Then whenever, the job advertisement said to call the specific number, i did call and the first thing they will ask is: Are u Chinese? When i said no, they said, "Oh sorry, we want Chinese" Argh... There's one occasion when I call and speak to the person on the phone and after mentioning my name (Maria), they assumed, i must be a Mandarin speaking person or an Eurasion and hence asked me to come down for an interview then... when i went there, the moment they c my face is a Malay(i am Malay)

They do not want to be rude so they asked me to fill up a form, go for interview and then i know its wasted coz i was asked if i can speak mandarin fluently. I told them: I can speak Mandarin only a little bit. So, they do not want to accept me coz i am not speaking fluently in Mandarin. Well, I have approached help from others to help me look out for one and I get a reply from one of them. The reason Y Malays are not wanted in working industry! Malays!!! Buck up!!!

Malay Muslims are to stop sitting around and get off their collective butts and start up their own businesses etc. Only then will you have a more level playing field. Look at it this way, what you experienced was purely economic driven. The employer wanted a Mandarin fluent speaker because the vast majority of his customers are..... Chinese. Over 78 % ofSingapore's population is Chinese so that is what he is chasing the chinese (statisticly chinese earn much more than theaverage malay and / or indian) so who has the greater spendingpower? chinese.

Another driving factor is that there are a lot more Chinese tourists coming over from Indonesia, Malaysia, Taiwan, Mainland China etc. Hence the need for more Mandarin speakers..

Later today, i will be going off for another interview at Jurong East Avenue 1 as an Admin.. The requirements are : Ability to speak English and Tamil or Malay.. Hey, tats interesting... We'll c the outcome...

Amyria pours her heart out @ 11:59 am   |