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More Singaporeans are choosing jobs below their qualifications. Here’s why

South China Morning Post · · 238 words · By Kolette Lim
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3 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“A new survey shows 19.4 per cent of Singapore’s resident workforce had academic qualifications beyond what was required for their job in 2025”
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The claim is reported in a web search result citing a 'manpower ministry' survey, but no other independent news sources or Wikipedia entries corroborate the specific statistic (19.4% in 2025) or the source's findings. The evidence is limited to one web search result.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The economy of Singapore is a highly developed mixed market economy with dirigiste characteristics. Singapore's economy has been consistently ranked as the most open, competitive and pro-business in t…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Singapore
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in Southeast Asia. Its territory comprises a main island, over 60 satellite islands and islets, and one outlying is…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Singapore dollar (sign: S$; code: SGD) is the official currency of the Republic of Singapore. It is divided into 100 cents (Malay: sen, Chinese: 分; pinyin: fēn, Tamil: காசு, romanized: kācu). It i…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore_dollar
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“According to a survey by the manpower ministry released earlier this month, 19.4 per cent of Singapore’s resident workforce had academic qualifications beyond what was required for their job in 2025, an increase from 16.3 per cent in 2015.”
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The claim is reported in a web search result citing a 'manpower ministry' survey, but no other independent news sources or Wikipedia entries corroborate the specific statistic (19.4% in 2025, increase from 16.3% in 2015). The evidence is limited to one web search result.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The economy of Singapore is a highly developed mixed market economy with dirigiste characteristics. Singapore's economy has been consistently ranked as the most open, competitive and pro-business in t…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Singapore
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in Southeast Asia. Its territory comprises a main island, over 60 satellite islands and islets, and one outlying is…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Singapore, officially the State of Singapore, was one of the 14 states of Malaysia from 16 September 1963 to 9 August 1965. Singapore was previously a British colony, which was originally part of the …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_Singapore_(Malaysia)
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“Survey findings, which collated responses from about 33,000 households, showed that about nine in 10 overqualified workers were voluntarily overqualified, with top reasons cited being job stability, the ability to use their skills and interesting work.”
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Multiple web search results corroborate the core findings: that a survey found that a high percentage (about nine in 10) of overqualified workers voluntarily choose jobs below their qualifications, citing reasons like job stability and using skills. This information is present across multiple search snippets from different sources.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Scientific notation is a way of expressing numbers that are too large or too small to be conveniently written in decimal form, since to do so would require writing out an inconveniently long string of…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_notation
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number, numeral, and grapheme. It is the first and smallest positive integer of the infinite sequence of natural numbers. This fundamental property has led to its unique uses…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — 10 (ten) is the even natural number following 9 and preceding 11. Ten is the base of decimal numeral systems, the most common systems for denoting numbers in both spoken and written language. The Engl…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10
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