Singapore Professional Workers Most Optimistic In World Jobs Market
Berkley Recruitment Group, an international search firm with offices in Singapore and Ireland, has just completed a survey of professionals within the sectors of Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences, ,Information Technology, and Commercial executives from a cross section of its worldwide database The Global job/workforce market sentiment survey reveals some upbeat startling indicators of the mood of Singapore based professionals, in contrast to Western Europe and the US but comparable with attitudes in China and Australia. The survey asked 14 questions including relating to salary rise expectations, job security, company performance compared to 12 months ago , motivations to move jobs (Singaporeans favoured career progression and financial over job security and job location in stark contrast to other countries surveyed) and job creation. The survey also showed that in Singapore the expectations were the highest globally in relation to pay increase expectations in 2010.
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