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An employer who recently voiced his complaints in a Facebook post about millennial job seekers applying for a job under him went viral on social media, with more than 7,900 shares at the time of writing.
But along with the 15 minutes of fame came detractors who did not agree with what he wrote. The difference of opinion got so bad that she apparently got angry, she said: her residential address was even discovered and circulated online.
“Are we raising our generation to be adult babies?” Delane Lim first asked openly in a Facebook post early Saturday (August 29).
The small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) business owner was apparently disappointed by the responses of 12 local graduate job seekers he had interviewed over the past week, stating that “none of them [were] hunger for work ”.
https://www.facebook.com/delanelim/posts/10223797930158901
12 hours later, Lim composed his thoughts in a longer article, recounting his experiences with seven young candidates who applied for a job under his command that offered a salary of $ 3,600 a month and 14 days of annual leave.
The candidates, depending on their position, were painted as picky and entitled. Apparently, one had requested personal assistants, another wanted more annual leave, and another candidate requested a transportation allowance because the office was “too far” from her home.
“I felt like they were interviewing me as [an] the employer is not doing my job to interview potential employees, ”Lim wrote.
According to his profile, he is a director of business consultancy The Afternaut Group, founder and president of training provider Futuready Asia, and CEO of Character & Leadership Academy, among other roles.
“Many are unwilling to be humble and unwilling to suffer. They prefer to work smart than hard unlike our previous generation, “he said in his post.
“I’m a pro-Singaporean workforce, but … they make it more difficult for us to consider employing them.”
https://www.facebook.com/delanelim/posts/10223802726358803
His post caused quite a stir on Facebook after it was widely shared. In the comment section, many sided with Lim and echoed his thoughts on young job seekers.
But not everyone agreed with him, some have even written their own extensive analyzes of what Lim said. A widely shared rebuttal questioned Lim on what exactly he wrote in the job description that saw experienced candidates apply for the position.
Prominent businessman and business consultant Raj Singh, who often posts video comments on social media, also disagreed with Lim’s views and asked him to consider understanding the reasons behind applicants’ requests.
Others, however, seemed to have taken their dissent to extremes. In a follow-up post, Lim claims that her personal information has been circulated on the Hardwarezone online forum and she expressed concern that her residential address will be openly published.
A forum thread about Lim’s opinion of job applicants that he had interviewed has over 1,100 posts and over 159,000 views at the time of writing.
He added some clarification on how the companies under his command have still managed to employ locals and are providing jobs during the pandemic.
“So I hope readers understand that we too are doing our part to increase employment (thanks to a government hiring subsidy), but don’t fool us without understanding our facts,” he wrote.
https://www.facebook.com/delanelim/posts/10223804197155572
Before his viral post, Lim appeared in The Straits Times as an entrepreneur and philanthropist who went through a tipping point after nearly killing himself when he was 25 years old.
