Yes I do have relatives and friend staying there. But it would not be good for me to stay at their place without contributing anything, hence I still need to incur cost for accommodation although at a lower rate. I am working in the banking industry (relevant experience would be marketing/social media/digital marketing/media)

anyone know if there is also headcount freeze in the IT industry in Singapore? I applied to many companies in Singapore online for few months but there is still no reply yet.

You can try to apply Bank of China if you are in banking industry. My friend just got her job confirmed in that bank.
I dont think address is a issue here as you can always tell them you are now staying in Malaysia but will be renting a room once I got a job confirmed.

Yup, I believe not only IT industry is affected. But if you have expertise in SAP/Oracle (in terms of system implementation and security maintenance), it is still highly in demand as alot of companies are migrating to these ERP systems nowadays.

Alot of jobs are only stated for "Singaporean and SPR only". Having said so, my Singaporean colleague-IT professional has been job hunting for few months too.

However dun give-up, you may still try your luck in your job hunting.

This post has been edited by WyjSwmW: Jun 14 2011, 01:18 AM

@sean ehe nolah was just asking how the off peak scheme works. cos at the current COE price of 60-70k, a 17k discount is like hardly worth mentioning, so I was wondering what all the fuss is about.

on the other hand moving back 1+years to like jan-mar 2010 ... coe then was ~20k, so in that context a 17k discount makes a lot more sense to give up daytime driving.

my wife came here without a job with me. she took one month to get a job and one month to apply for pass n processing of documents. n she will be starting her new job this 20/6 with a US MNC....... so i think if u come here n camp here n start looking for job will be easier.......

Dear WyjSwmW,

Thanks for the encouragement for a person who is out of work for almost half a year.

Besides COE, road tax for OPCs are cheaper as well. Insurance might be as well, but I'm not sure. But you're right... the incentive to go OPC shrinks as COE climbs and vice versa. Actually, if you want to get a car, you might also want to think about 2nd hand cars. Price dynamics follow COE movements of course (it's simple substitution after all), but the used car market is still a separate market, many a times with significantly divergent driving factors. Singaporeans also have a different car mentality than Malaysians... ie. cars are short term expenses which they think about entirely in terms of the monthly expense amount and residual value which becomes the "discount" when they upgrade (pretty much like handphones)... unlike Malaysians where we think about paying off the loan and value the car in terms of the total cost of the "asset".

can i work in SG for few years without apply PR ?

1sgd = rm2.46 guys....

You can work till you retire without applying PR.
Subject to your EP/WP approve every time you renew.

i changed it with RM2.48 yesterday. but this is an inevitable cost to me.

2.48 and you ??
Isn't that higher than 2.46?

Some people have to bring ringgit into SG. We have to bring S$ back to Malaysia.

2.5..... 2.5.... 2.5!!

Oh...forgot about that direction.
I changed at 2.444 yesterday.

any of u guys keep some $ into epf? i mean msia anyone knows how?

i'm working in IBM, so far there's no headcount freeze here.
how did you apply? through which agency??

Used or new, car price really went up.

You see those under $10k COE cars at used car market(~ 3 years) selling almost equal to their buying price. mostly Korean car or Eurocar... the most popular choice when COE hit the ground.

Where did you change yr SGD for these kinda rates? Most money changers only exchange at SGD1=RM2.42 or RM2.43 max. Even bank TT rates not so high

where do u all get 2.48, 2.46 and 2.444?
cz i found only 2.42.
Pls let me know where. I wana change RM too.