{"id":1444,"date":"2011-06-25T02:18:34","date_gmt":"2011-06-25T02:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/?p=1444"},"modified":"2011-06-25T02:18:34","modified_gmt":"2011-06-25T02:18:34","slug":"sia-recruiting-cadet-pilots-from-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2011\/06\/sia-recruiting-cadet-pilots-from-india.html","title":{"rendered":"SIA recruiting cadet pilots from India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>P<\/strong><\/span>ilots used to be a much sought-after profession in Singapore, but it appears that Singaporeans are \u00e2\u20ac\u2122shunning\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 the job as well which prompted Singapore Airlines (SIA) to put up a job advertisement in India to recruit and train Indian nationals to become SIA pilots.<br \/>\nAccording to an amused netizen who tipped us off on the news, he saw the SIA ad on the Times of India in April seeking specifically \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcCitizens of India\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 as SIA cadet pilots:<br \/>\nBesides the usual physical attributes, prospective candidates must have at least 5 Credits in the GCE \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcO\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 level and to possess a good command of English.<br \/>\nSIA will sponsor successful candidates to acquire an Airline Transport Pilot\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Licence at Pilot Training Schools in Singapore and overseas after which they will be bonded for a period of seven years.<br \/>\nIt is puzzling that SIA did not open the job to young Singaporeans many of whom are more than qualified to become its cadet pilots and have to incur extra expenses by putting up job advertisements in India.<br \/>\nAre Indian nationals better pilots than Singaporeans?<br \/>\nIn all likelihood, they are probably preferred over Singaporeans due to lower pay. Furthermore, being foreigners, they are unlikely to demand much from SIA and will have lower bargaining rights.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">24\/06\/11<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.temasekreview.com\/2011\/06\/24\/sia-recruiting-cadet-pilots-from-india\/\" target=\"_blank\">Teamsek Review Emeritus<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pilots used to be a much sought-after profession in Singapore, but it appears that Singaporeans are \u00e2\u20ac\u2122shunning\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 the job as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}