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Recruitment firm TMS Asia- Pacific has raisedthe concerns as the organisers of the Beijing 2008 Olympics and the ShanghaiWorld Expo begin to target the Lion City in search ofbilingual workers.
TMSgm Asia Andrew Chan said the time has come for Singapore travel companies toimplement “progressive HR strategies” designedto attract candidates from both traditional and nontraditional sources.
Hesaid that the Singaporeindustry continues to boom and careers in tourism offer excellent prospects foryoung people just startingout. But”the industry can’t just rely on younger people to be its saviour…it alsoneeds to look elsewhere,” Chan said. He suggested Baby Boomers and womenlooking to return to the workforce after having children are two key targetsthat employers should be looking to attract.
Chanadvised that for so-called ‘Generation Y’ candidates, career planning was aboutdeveloping a range of marketable skills that theywould be able to take with them, saying it was “not just about vertical growth”.He said this group requires constant learning and challenges, otherwise theywill get bored and leave “and this decision can sometimes be made in a day.
“Howmany organisations can cope with that level of change?” he asked
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