"Global Talent" (GT)

There seems to be a new terminology for foreigners in Singapore. It's a much better and nicer sounding term. "Global Talent" to reflect the smallness of the world as a global village, and at the same time, to further define the term foreign talent and in a sense to differentiate it from its diluted form.

Global Talent now refers to any kind of talent, and not just the blue collar types that come into Singapore as manual laborers or low-skilled to unskilled workers. It could refer to white-collar executive types that are highly mobile, and have transferrable skills that can value-add to any organization that hires them. The key word here is the intangible perceived value-add.

Whether that indeed becomes a successful differentiation or not will depend on the myriad headhunting professionals here trying to re-carve the niche for foreign talent. Singapore needs foreign talent in order to maintain its global competitiveness. It just needs a little more heart in redefining itself. Oh well. I like the new term anyway. ;)