morenangpinay wrote:try to write the appeal indicating the duties of the person and how he can contribute to the company. Check if the position is in the list in the MOM sometimes this helps too. Attach all the documents like education cert., experience cert., etc. The appeal must convey why the company is hiring a foreigner to do the job. Any special skills or language perhaps that makes the person more qualified. Anyway write a long letter, seems the MOM likes long letters.
No, I don't think they like long letters at all. Here are a few examples of job descriptions that _might_ convince MOM to bring the person in on an EP.
a) The applicant has an in depth knowledge of our company's marketing strategy, and is integral to implementing that strategy through market development, advertising, and various PR activities.
b) The applicant possesses senior level project management skills, both soft skills and the ability to direct a project in excess of 2 million dollars. We have found local applicants but none have run a project of this size, and none have worked with expat managers, some of whom seem insensitive to the way things are done in Asia.
c) The applicant has a specialized skill set in that his prior employment background dovetails with the research we are doing to bring a product to market. While we might be able to train a local technician over time (and we hope to do that with product success), right now, our need is time critical for our research project.
d) The applicant has been responsible for harmonizing our supply chain logistics throughout Asia, and will continue to move the company forward in this area from a Singapore base.
What probably WON'T work:
1) Applicant has a technical degree and MSNC certification - oops, so do so many locals - BZZZ - no go.
2) Applicant has 3 years experience - yup, just like the locals - BZZ - no go.
3) Applicant has an accounting degree - a very popular degree for local university graduates so - BZZZ - no go.
4) Applicant will be selling for us - so why do you need the applicant instead of a local to do the selling - BZZZ - no go?
Here are a few things that might get you in (IT world):
a) NATIVE speaker of Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, OR extremely good English AND you have service desk experience.
b) Senior skills in database, security, data centers/servers, and communications.
c) Serious equipment rollout experience, or managed services implementation experience.
d) Experience as a solutions architect.
e) PM experience, especially multi country or multi supplier management experience.
f) Strong PC applications knowledge of a bunch of different applications.
