Keeping The Playing Field Fair

Recently, I wrote a post announcing that Facebook has set up an office in Singapore and shared about the jobs they were hiring for. A reader of SGEntrepreneurs wrote us an email pointing out an inconsistency in our treatment of job opportunities.

That is true. On hindsight, we should not have posted the job openings together with the news that Facebook was setting up an office here.

Facebook setting up shop in Singapore and hiring for jobs is indeed big news, news that leads to additional traffic for our site. However, since we have moved to a model where announcements for job opportunities for local startups are done in tandem with paid listings on the job board managed by us and promoted by our partners, this inconsistency with free publicity for jobs at Facebook is indeed glaring.

I have removed any mention of the current job opportunities offered in the post.

Moving forward, even though it will be big news when big boys like Facebook start a hiring spree in Singapore, we will not be covering it on SGE unless a paid listing is done on the job board like the rest of our local startups.

We have always been about building the local entrepreneurship community and promoting awareness of it. Important to achieving these goals is extending equal treatment to the local startups as well as to the bigger players.

I would like to thank our reader who cared enough to share with us his concerns.

Gwen