PMET job losses a blow to S’pore’s small talent pool

The letter “Recruiting panels must be taught benefits of hiring older PMETs”, published on April 28, caused me to think of the vital role professionals, managers, executives and technicians (PMETs) play in our nation-building efforts.

I believe Ms Chow Lai May gave too much credit to top management when she wrote that “companies need the top management to run operations and general workers to continue doing the work”.

In most enterprises, top management makes the policies, but it is the middle management or PMETs who run operations.

Having been in the PMET ranks and retrenched by different companies several times because the information technology and telecommunications industry I was in is fast-changing and technology is constantly evolving, I have seen the losses a company can incur when it loses the personnel that actually bring in the money.

Good policies are intentional, and without proper execution can become bad policies.

When any PMET loses his or her job, it is not just a personal loss, but also a blow to the already-small talent pool in Singapore.