Most workers want a new job: survey
By The Nation

 

 

 

BANGKOK: -- Most Thai employees are looking for a new job, a survey by JobThai.com has revealed.

 

Of the more than 6,000 respondents, 73 per cent want to change their job, the survey found. 

 

The main reason cited for doing so is their dissatisfaction with their salary and other remunerations.

 

Five per cent of respondents said they were interested in working overseas, with the top five destinations of choice being Japan, the United States, Singapore, Australia and South Korea respectively.

 

For employees looking for a job in Thailand, their top five preferred locations are Bangkok, Chon Buri, Samut Prakan, Rayong and Pathum Thani respectively.

 

Forty per cent of respondents had been looking for a job via job-search websites, while 17.56 per cent searched on the websites of the firms they were interested in joining and 11.73 per cent relied on personal connections. 

 

Almost 8 per cent applied for a job in person.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/news/national/30310015

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2017-03-23

yes every time my maid comes to clean the house she dresses a bit more provocatively.

 

i guess she wants a change in job description.

They want to go abroad to work...if there is one thing all my (former and present) students that have gone abroad for study, On the Job Training (OJT) and working has in common and that is that they all complain that the work is to hard. One student that is now in Denmark has been ranting and complaining for over 2 months that he has to go 2 km by bicycle between the host family and his work place (Travel to Farm, a almost hundred year old Danish project for students from abroad to get OJT on Danish farms)!

1 hour ago, Kasset Tak said:

They want to go abroad to work...if there is one thing all my (former and present) students that have gone abroad for study, On the Job Training (OJT) and working has in common and that is that they all complain that the work is to hard. One student that is now in Denmark has been ranting and complaining for over 2 months that he has to go 2 km by bicycle between the host family and his work place (Travel to Farm, a almost hundred year old Danish project for students from abroad to get OJT on Danish farms)!

Can you imagine him on a bicycle going through storm/wind/snow/rain to feed the cows in their stalls? I would love to see that filmed.

 

And there is not even a bahtbus or motocytaxi to help him, not even a grilled chickenshop along the roads. He really was unlucky to get this OJT, why didn't he go to Australia for training?  No snow there...

2 minutes ago, fruitman said:

Can you imagine him on a bicycle going through storm/wind/snow/rain to feed the cows in their stalls? I would love to see that filmed.

 

And there is not even a bahtbus or motocytaxi to help him, not even a grilled chickenshop along the roads. He really was unlucky to get this OJT, why didn't he go to Australia for training?  No snow there...

He hasn't complain about the snow, he is complaining that there is no motorcycle or car for the 2km between the house and the farm. And then he complain that he has to work so much (8 hours a day/max 38 hours a week) because working in 8 hours in Europe and working 8 hours in Thailand isn't really the same thing...

 

We have tried to get OJT in Australia but basically it failed on the visa part as Australia has quite harsh visa restrictions! We are hoping to get positive answers about OJT in New Zealand this year but so far its just in the beginning.

2 minutes ago, Kasset Tak said:

He hasn't complain about the snow, he is complaining that there is no motorcycle or car for the 2km between the house and the farm. And then he complain that he has to work so much (8 hours a day/max 38 hours a week) because working in 8 hours in Europe and working 8 hours in Thailand isn't really the same thing...

 

We have tried to get OJT in Australia but basically it failed on the visa part as Australia has quite harsh visa restrictions! We are hoping to get positive answers about OJT in New Zealand this year but so far its just in the beginning.

They should give him a motocy when there's snow/ice/wind....and no helmet of course. Put his lunchbox with sandwiches\milk on the back and see you tonight somchai.

 

He's still lucky he only has to work 8 hours, most farmers do more. And 2km is also nothing, i had to bicycle 15km single way to school in all wheater.

 

It will make him strong like a farang and he has to learn that nothing comes for free in the West.

 

3 hours ago, Kasset Tak said:

They want to go abroad to work...if there is one thing all my (former and present) students that have gone abroad for study, On the Job Training (OJT) and working has in common and that is that they all complain that the work is to hard. One student that is now in Denmark has been ranting and complaining for over 2 months that he has to go 2 km by bicycle between the host family and his work place (Travel to Farm, a almost hundred year old Danish project for students from abroad to get OJT on Danish farms)!

How can Thais go for work & holiday to Norway? I thought only AU & NZ accepts them

4 hours ago, NCC1701A said:

yes every time my maid comes to clean the house she dresses a bit more provocatively.

 

i guess she wants a change in job description.

No silly your a hansum man. She dresses more provocatively to show that she is a high class maid and deserving of a raise. 

4 hours ago, Kasset Tak said:

They want to go abroad to work...if there is one thing all my (former and present) students that have gone abroad for study, On the Job Training (OJT) and working has in common and that is that they all complain that the work is to hard. One student that is now in Denmark has been ranting and complaining for over 2 months that he has to go 2 km by bicycle between the host family and his work place (Travel to Farm, a almost hundred year old Danish project for students from abroad to get OJT on Danish farms)!

Yes times have surely changed. High expectations of job and salary. One wonders if there is ever a satisfaction point. 

1 hour ago, 11223344 said:

How can Thais go for work & holiday to Norway? I thought only AU & NZ accepts them

I don't know about Norway but Denmark have a exchange program for students studying agriculture that has been running for almost a hundred years and its the Danish Ministry of Education that takes care of it so they have worked out most of the kinks.

3 hours ago, fruitman said:

Can you imagine him on a bicycle going through storm/wind/snow/rain to feed the cows in their stalls? I would love to see that filmed.

 

And there is not even a bahtbus or motocytaxi to help him, not even a grilled chickenshop along the roads. He really was unlucky to get this OJT, why didn't he go to Australia for training?  No snow there...

I used to pedal bike to work in the 4 seasons. Must have been a couple K. 

3 hours ago, fruitman said:

They should give him a motocy when there's snow/ice/wind....and no helmet of course. Put his lunchbox with sandwiches\milk on the back and see you tonight somchai.

 

He's still lucky he only has to work 8 hours, most farmers do more. And 2km is also nothing, i had to bicycle 15km single way to school in all wheater.

 

It will make him strong like a farang and he has to learn that nothing comes for free in the West.

 

Nothing was free for us learning and working. We learned to work at an early age. I mentioned to my mother that my friends got .25 cents a week allowance and I was promptly told "no free money here" I went to work for a farmer on Saturdays shoveling manure got $2 a day and 2 squares thought I had died and gone to heaven. After my mother saw my money accumulating she informed me that now I could buy my own clothes as well. At least I had freedom of choice. 

3 minutes ago, elgordo38 said:

Yes times have surely changed. High expectations of job and salary. One wonders if there is ever a satisfaction point. 

I can understand that people want better jobs and higher salaries but many of them don't understand that you have to work for that in the rest of the world!

The Thai English teachers here in school have their Master degrees in teaching English and thanks to that they have passed Krusapha exams/levels they have almost double my salary but still they can't even communicate in either verbal or written English. With their level of Education their knowledge of the English language should be on the same level as I am, maybe even better. Now they even speak Thai with me because my Thai is better than their English... I have studied Thai for a week while they have studying English from first year in primary school and all they way through university so about 20 years!?

For me that just show how bad the educational system is and that something is way messed up with how they divide the money for the paychecks! I don't say that they should pay me more for my work but they should pay these teachers way less than they get today and if you would follow the same performance scale for them as they use for me then they should have half of my salary... not double as they get today!

2 minutes ago, Kasset Tak said:

I have studied Thai for a week while they have studying English from first year in primary school

Do you mean the old Dick and Jane? God that goes back a long way. 

3 minutes ago, Kasset Tak said:

I can understand that people want better jobs and higher salaries but many of them don't understand that you have to work for that in the rest of the world!

The Thai English teachers here in school have their Master degrees in teaching English and thanks to that they have passed Krusapha exams/levels they have almost double my salary but still they can't even communicate in either verbal or written English. With their level of Education their knowledge of the English language should be on the same level as I am, maybe even better. Now they even speak Thai with me because my Thai is better than their English... I have studied Thai for a week while they have studying English from first year in primary school and all they way through university so about 20 years!?

For me that just show how bad the educational system is and that something is way messed up with how they divide the money for the paychecks! I don't say that they should pay me more for my work but they should pay these teachers way less than they get today and if you would follow the same performance scale for them as they use for me then they should have half of my salary... not double as they get today!

Your long read is my eye opener of the day really incredible read. 

2 minutes ago, elgordo38 said:

Your long read is my eye opener of the day really incredible read. 

This week I'm clearing a 3 year backlog of documents for our Mini English Program... as more than 50% of the documents are in Thai it should really been done by the Thai teachers + that I have only worked here for 2 years... next week they will come here form the Vocational Education Commission to check the the work we have done in our MEP...

Last week I was working on a new web page in English for the school... the director ordered the Thai computer and English teachers to do it in the beginning of the semester but as they have managed to do nothing in almost 6 months it ended up on my table instead.

 

So, yea, I'm staring to get a little frustrated and when that happens I have a tendance to write a lot.

33 minutes ago, Kasset Tak said:

I can understand that people want better jobs and higher salaries but many of them don't understand that you have to work for that in the rest of the world!

The Thai English teachers here in school have their Master degrees in teaching English and thanks to that they have passed Krusapha exams/levels they have almost double my salary but still they can't even communicate in either verbal or written English. With their level of Education their knowledge of the English language should be on the same level as I am, maybe even better. Now they even speak Thai with me because my Thai is better than their English... I have studied Thai for a week while they have studying English from first year in primary school and all they way through university so about 20 years!?

For me that just show how bad the educational system is and that something is way messed up with how they divide the money for the paychecks! I don't say that they should pay me more for my work but they should pay these teachers way less than they get today and if you would follow the same performance scale for them as they use for me then they should have half of my salary... not double as they get today!

It's your own fault as well, you choose to work for that salary which is very low for an adult farang.

 

I refuse to speak Thai with educated Thai persons. If they have a university degree they should be able to speak english, i also had to learn that myself.

But i'm also amazed about how little knowledge they have for their profession...One of my hobbies is computers/electronics/technics, i know a lot of graduates from the KMUT university who know almost nothing at all about it. Some of them even can't speak a word english as well and they are IT-professionals with good jobs.

 

I also have thai friends with MBA-certifications but i still try to find out in what they are professional and trained very well. They have the highest degree's one can get in Thailand.

 

Also i have familymembers who are about as high as it gets for medical staff, but having an english conversation with them is very hard. They lecture worldwide though and fly a lot.

 

Thai certifications don't mean much to me, if a uni-graduate even can't speak english i really wonder how he/she did pass those exams.

I worked in two offices here amongst Thai staff. The two biggest complaints I heard were bad boss and too much work. Admittedly, the bosses were usually awful. Didn't know how to designate, didn't want to hear other people's ideas and were more focused on looking powerful and important. Another thing I noticed was a 'sabai-sabai' work attitude from Monday- Thursday. A lot of chatting, going early for lunch and coming back late. Then, come Friday, most people were complaining they were so busy (because they left it all to the end of the week). As I was running out the door at 5pm on a Friday, I'd hear "Oho! Not busy, lor?" First few times I just smiled and left. After about the 5th time I explained how I do my work as I get it. The whole self-righteous thing will wear any patient man down. But, at the end of the day, most of us want more money and better conditions. No matter how good we have it. 

 

I'm sure there are many people here who have worked in a office with Thais who performed their work like Japanese prisoners of war. I wouldn't doubt you for a second. This is merely my two pence worth of experience working in offices here. 

What's needed here is some self discipline there's nothing wrong with staying in a 10,000 Baht Pcm job all your life, granddad did.........................

3 hours ago, Kasset Tak said:

This week I'm clearing a 3 year backlog of documents for our Mini English Program... as more than 50% of the documents are in Thai it should really been done by the Thai teachers + that I have only worked here for 2 years... next week they will come here form the Vocational Education Commission to check the the work we have done in our MEP...

Last week I was working on a new web page in English for the school... the director ordered the Thai computer and English teachers to do it in the beginning of the semester but as they have managed to do nothing in almost 6 months it ended up on my table instead.

 

So, yea, I'm staring to get a little frustrated and when that happens I have a tendance to write a lot.

Bravo and kudo's writing is a lost art. Sorry to hear some are not carrying their load its a way of life today. 

8 hours ago, Kasset Tak said:

because working in 8 hours in Europe and working 8 hours in Thailand isn't really the same thing...

You can say that again.