Age : 24
Job Title: Design Engineer
Company: Lift Manufacturing Company
Tenure: Probation(6 months.currently in 1st month)
Education: Degree
Employment Level: Executive
Salary: RM 2.3k(after confirm got chance to add rm100)
Benefits: Medical, Optical/Dental, Annual leave
Contractual Bonus: My colleague told me they only get 1 month bonus after working for almost 2 years

I feel like I'm underpaid. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Bro, how come urs is tax free but still entitled to Rm3300 tax payment?

U freelance/contracts?

1 and half year in working life ~ damn tired .....

1st job,
Job Title : Electrical Engineer
Job Desciption : Electrical consultant in construction
Years spent in company : 5months
Company : MNC, one of the top m&e consultant in sg
Industry : construction
Tenure : permanent
Employment Level : executive = no OT claim and must sapu all things to do.
Experience before joining : fresh graduate (hired after a month from my final exam)

salary : SGD 2.4k

2nd job

Job Title : Engineer
Job Desciption : shipyard, construction of a oil-rig, more like a site supervisor
Years spent in company : 5 months plus till Oct 2011
Company : MNC
Industry : Marine construction
Tenure : permanent
Employment Level : executive
Experience before joining : see above

salary : SGD 2.4k + ot sgd7/hour + fixed 1 month bonus + another 5months bonus (not sure, coz heard frm my senior, every year all engineer get at least 6 months bonus)

3rd job,
Job Title : Engineer
Job Desciption : Electrical consultant in construction
Years spent in company : (end of March 2012) now bout 5months +
Company : Small local SG company
Industry : land construction
Tenure : permanent
Employment Level : Engineer = executive ?

Experience before joining : see above

salary : SGD 2.8k + OT (1.5xnormal hour rate)
benefits : SGD 500 for MC (also can claim for anything medical related)
will update another 6 months later ~ hopefully still in the same company with bonuses and increment ~ lalalalala ~

yup, left be4 getting bonus .... scare stay longer higher risk getting cancer ....

nope, it depends on whether u like ur job anot.
actually when i working in shipyard, is quite free and easy life, also confirm can get more than 5 months bonus, the only problem is environment (dust everywhere) but i really not happy. even though i stay another moonth i will get the bonus,but i still decided to leave, because i really not happy.

and bro, u are wrong bout construction field, maybe is going down hill, but i do believe theres still opportunity in it. Bro , dun mix the malaysia construction field with singapore. here is much more serious and professional. rules, regulation and new technology everywhere, and damn more demanding. and for those who can cope with it, they will only get more ~

and most importantly, i do love my consulting job ,
regards.

Ok. Ok. I agree with the whole thing and about the annual salary in the data I gave, its still a large amount if you convert it to monthly. I apologize for saying I know it all, ok? About job satisfaction, I have large passion on mathematics, accounting, economics, and computer programming and I have a very strong basic in SPM. I have no experience, I admit. I listen to your advise as you have seen much in this world. So I am already sure I am going to this field by my satisfaction and interest, then only looking for salary, I am not asking my employer to pay me high, just wanna know if any companies do pay quite a high sum to the fresh graduates, I can also GETTING EXPERIENCE & PROVING MYSELF there, can't i? Why can't I focus on both, GETTING EXPERIENCE & PROVING MYSELF and having quite high starting salary. As an interviewer, you said candidates who negotiate salaries with you, will be shown the door. I am not going to ask the employer to give more. I wanna which place offer me more. If you are saying working overseas will have to consider from many factors. I am here for any companies, even in Malaysia, can offer a job, whether its hard or anything to get myself paid higher. I am not ignoring the 'GETTING EXPERIENCE & PROVING MYSELF' here! Talking about AS, the salary is majorly determined by the number of professional exams one passed. Try do some research.

Ive employed candidates with lesser paper qualifications and experience but had the correct attitude compared to those who were highly qualified. In my opinion, attitude and character is more important that a papar qualification or the number of exams uve passed simply because its easier to groom a person with the right attitude instead of someone who thinks he knows everything before even starting.

Experience is important, but in AS without papers you are nothing! I don't know about your field, but in AS if you going to employ the one with less papers and correct attitude,  I think you have made a wrong choice.

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Added on June 13, 2012, 2:14 pm
Who says AS degree is nothing? You still can earn and by passing many exams you can earn big bucks. What you mean about A-Level won't land you a good income? Its a platform to enter top universities in the world for AS degree!

if an actuarial science degree earns u 5 figure salary as starting pay, all also lineup to register liao loh

Just tell me the name of her department and ill find out easily enough.