Job Title : Site Supervisor
Job Description : Managing Sub-Contractors, Inspection, Liaise with Consultant and Main Contractor
Years spent in Company : 5 months
Company : Construction
Tenure : Permanent
Employment - Junior Executive
Experience before joining : 2 years.. ( was in Solar and SemiCon industry.. but personally thinks it is too hazardous)
Salary : 2.5K + Petrol Claim + Toll Claim + Toyota Hilux(only have to pay the yearly tax)
4-5 Months bonus (claimed by other supervisors)

Am I being paid competitively ? or there are better jobs out there for me ?

Do u have professional qualifications or, degree?

what ?

This post has been edited by avenger242: May 26 2011, 01:21 AM

Whoa! I didn't know that lowyat has something like this. Anyhoo here is mine.

Job Title : Quality Reliability Engineer (basically is what QA did)
Job Desciption : Quality monitoring, controlling + dealing with customers.
Years spent in company : Just joined
Company : Local Company (Ipoh) HOMETOWN
Industry : Semiconductor
Tenure : permanent
Employment Level : Engineer 1 (still under probation)
Experience before joining : None
Salary : RM 2.5k (the same for 1st class deg)
Benefits : Std: medical, epf etc.

I have two more offers from Penang based company.
Company A with RM 3.1k (1st class deg) same position QRE.
Company B with RM 3.1k (1st class deg) R&D Engineer.

Any suggestion on which should I choose?

R&D? Heard QA/QC quite boring..

Just wanna share with u mine

Job Title : Equipment Engineer (Laser mark specifically)
Job Desciption : Maintained & Process-wise thingy for laser mark/branding process
Years spent in company : almost 1 years
Company : Sub-con/MNC
Industry : Semiconductor
Tenure : permanent
Employment Level : Engineer 1
Experience before joining : 0.5 year in OEM Semicon & 2 years in R&D division - MNC finished good production
Salary : RM3.3k
Benefits : Std, medical, epf etc. 1 month contractual bonus + performance bonus

Working is OK but due to nature of subcon world; work pressure is high & long hour working.. (going back average at earliest 8pm, DAILY! required standby & response to email 24/7)

Plus i dont see 5S practically apply here, unless there's cust audit

I dont know if i can stay long enough as now we had a baby in family, working late sometimes is OK, but everyday going back 8~9 pm is hard for me.. T_T

Another pts; As per rumored they hire philipine employee range from tech to Mgr that's salary goes a bit hire than local. e.g.; local engineer salary 2.7k, philipine 3.5~4k. Why ? I dont know

This post has been edited by Hawarizmi: May 26 2011, 09:41 AM

Hawarizmi - RM 3.3K for 3.5yrs of experience would be on the low side... hard to survive in KL.. especially with bb

I'm pretty sure many companies would pay better for people who work more than 12 hrs a day..

Cost of living is higher in Penang compared to Ipoh...
if you factor that in, plus your return trip to your hometown...do u still think the additional 600 is worth it?
u still have to pay rental...
well, there r pros n cons....

OSRAM or Philips Lumileds? LoL

That's actually what in my mind also, that's why I choose Ipoh.

I have another question, do you think you can raise your salary to 5-6k in 3 years time. Cause I'm getting an offer to further my studies in PhD.
Most of the PhD holders told me that once you have a PhD (Engineering) your salary will be at least 5-6k even when you are fresh grad without experience.

Thanks alot.

Maybe in R&D line...other engineering..i'm not sure
well, it depends on what u do for your PhD as well
if it's related and will be beneficial to the company, maybe they will pay that amount...

Job Title : System Executive
Job Desciption : 1st & 2nd Level Hardware/Software support
Years spent in company : almost 2++ years
Company : Local
Industry : FMCG
Tenure : Permanent
Employment Level : Executive
Experience before joining : 3 year
Salary : RM3.1k + After office hrs support allowance for 2 week rotation (abt RM240)
Benefits : Std, medical, epf etc.

I just got promoted to system executive, any comments?
I still feel not enough since the cost of living in city are so high

Hi guys,

What would I be looking for a person like me making a jump with 2 years experience from local bank to singaporean bank namely OCBC.

I'm currently grossing RM3.1k. Is a 45-50% jump possible?

@Liuism
Degree yes or no ? I think you are severely underpaid. Fresh grads working in the IT sector command up to RM3.6k basic nowadays (of course, not everyone, but yes it is possible). You have a total of 5 years experience and earning less than them.

so do you expect to get a job about 3K SGD? should be quite possible...

he might not have a degree in which case, its actually reasonable.

but for degree holder you can earn more at other job, provided you find one that needs your skills.

thanks for the comment, i just earn myself a degree

I also think that RM3.1k is not enough to live in city. I take many tuition classes as part time, you can do some part time sales. LOL..

Sorry just wandering, if job-hopping is OK for engineering jobs?
Recently me & my friends having a chitchat with one of auditor from shanghai, China..
Evemtually She said that this actually her 8 jobs in 5 years time, and now the salary is 12times better than her first job, which making sense that u ll get better increment by jumping around.. Any comment?

@hawarizmi
Money comes with experience and skills. If you do not have any of those, hopping wont help you. In Malaysia, for most jobs, if you hop that often, you hit a dead end cause you are deemed not loyal

Well, I'm not exactly living in the City. I'm from Klang...standard living not really tat high compare to Klang Valleys

I have lil bit side income, but not much thou