This almost never happens where I am. Namely because it's never the sole decision of the hiring manager. For graduate hires, it's 99% of the time a committee decision... usually comprising the hiring mgr, 2nd level mgr, geographic manager and relevant business or functional manager. That's why it's never possible to hire a candidate whose profile doesn't tick all (or most of) the boxes. Someone's bound to question your judgement.

In fact the managers involved make it a point to remove themselves from the decision making process if they know the external candidate.

I see very, very little "influence" being exerted for external candidates. The chances of being implicated in a 1800-Ethicsline free call is too great for any manager to risk. Nobody also wants to be left holding the baby/blame (as the guy who pushed for the hire) if the new hire turns out to be a failure.

Where a lot of influence comes to bear is internal hires, role changes and promotions.

This is very rare in any MNC that wants to build a strong corporate culture. What you described inevitably results in cliques (best case) or empire-building (worst case).

one thing for sure, if you stay at JB, you are richer 2.4x than us

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Added on September 17, 2011, 4:42 amMercury8400 is rubbish since he cannot get a job in OZ?

but in another thread said OZ better for quality of living, car is cheap..even studio cheaper than sg, only food slighly expensive. if you have 60K in sg, you can get 100k in OZ. do you mean the higher income at OZ will be worse?

I put most of my rainy day cash in CIMB. The Starsaver account pays 0.8% on the entire balance, no service fees, no drop below fees... only one condition, you need to deposit $500 each month or the interest rate drops to 0.5% (still higher than anything the big3 can offer). It's got free cheques and the lowest fees (to my knowledge) if you deposit forex cheques as well.

The whole purpose of having cash for a rainy day is so that you don't have to liquidate your investments and disrupt the compounding, when it begins to rain. And if you are going to hold some cash anyway, why not get the highest return you can for it?

Unless of course, you don't want to hold any cash and reckon it's a good idea to sell your flat (or use it as collateral) to buy food when you get retrenched.

Hi guys! Still remember me? I have posted in v7 before, asking opinions from bros here.

So yeah, I have made a difficult decision to work in SG, alone. Its a tough one, to be separated from wife (she's pregnant, due deliver ard CNY next year), so I made it a point to travel back at least 3 times a month...She's understanding and supportive as well. Well, have sacrifice a bit for the better lifestyle for my wife and baby, heh.

In return, the offer is quite attractive; just the basic alone is higher than my current pay, comparing SGD1 to RM1. A number of perks offered that my current cant even come close. Was informed to tender resignation after they got the EP approval from MOM. Guess what, submit to them on Sunday, then they called up today saying that my EP's approved. My god, thats was blazingly fast & efficient!   

Expected commencement is early of Nov. Will take this opportunity to accompany my wife 

This trick still works nowadays??? How about American companies? They buy this trick?

     

But I don't plan to stay long in SG, so didn't think of applying PR. Hey mercury, you ever attended any LYN gatherings here?

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Added on September 22, 2011, 12:50 pm

My housemate bought and sold Silver last month (UOB), she earns $1k by buying $20k initially.

high class ppl like u should worry. low class WP worker like me got nothing to be afraid of.
Coz they can't dismiss ppl like us because they need us to run the business. but ppl that are highly paid. beware.

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Added on September 23, 2011, 10:57 pm

It's up to u girl. But my ideal type of gal look on my personality than money.
Btw, if u are pretty u can demand more, if u are not, then hope u can marry before u are on 30 yrs old.
And 4k SGD just enough for me to suppork family if wife is also working, average SG people earn 3k/month if u know. Don't look rich people, look many people are poor then u will be free..

I'm looking for both personality and money, ho mei? 

I just don't understand why you wanna compare to ppl who lower than u, if u compare to ppl earn lower than you, you feel happy and satisfy? Why don't compare to ppl who earn more than you and you should think how to achieve that? Why stay with what you having now and not trying to go further & achieve more? I only know that I shouldn't be contented while I'm still young. Stay hungry, stay foolish, this is what my 'BOSS' said 

Errr.... The term STAY FOOLISH simply means do not always think that you've learnt all and there's nothing more for you to learn. So by staying foolish, you're always willing to learn more and keep learning new things.

SGD3.5k per months consider low pay in SG for 6-7 years experience?
IT post

Dollar to dollar, sure local pay higher than SG
saving after conversion higher than MY i think will be acceptable

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Added on September 27, 2011, 2:10 pm
7 years of work exp post degree graduate what you think? around "that" figure

Marine/ OnG industry. But i dont expect a white collar fella to cope with the demands of the job. In my previous company, 2 out of 3 potential employees will resign within the first 6 months since most cant stand the job and the environment. Working inside a ship tank where the humidity is like a sauna, the ambient temperature hovers around 40 C, you need to work at height climbing ladders nearly 5 stories high and doing this for 5-9 hours straight everyday. Plus your exposed to confined spaces and the danger that explosions may happen, lack of oxygen or being poisoned by H2S is an ever present danger.

I have little hope that pencil pushers would last even a month before giving up. There was one singaporean guy who just finished NS, went to work for just one day and that was the last we ever saw of him.

Guys, I need some help here.

I wanted to open a saving account with POSB bank. The staff there told me that if I am holding a work permit, then I need to check with my employer to see my employer has a Corporate Account with POSB. If dont have then I cannot open "Work Permit Saving Account" with them. After I checked with my employer, they do not have Corporate Account with POSB.

The staff said if I want to open saving account by my own, then I need to declare to them why I need to open my own, how may transactions per month I will make etc. And even if I declare, it is still subject to approval.

I saw their website saying that for the foreigner saving account, if balance fall under $5000 per month, I will be deducted $2 per month. I will also be deducted for $2 for each cash withdrawal.

So is there any other bank that can let me open a saving account by my own, have ATM card, NO fall-below charge, NO cash withdrawal charge, NO initial deposit (if required then the most is $500), and have E-Banking access. 

I hope can get answer here, thank you.

the first one i try too fufill
the second one, is just a declaration and confirm to sg gov, they cant check,
only problem is, as u mention somebody cucuk, so need to do this low profile

my fren went through all the hassle changing name for his property, then the hdb officer ask them to provide prove to hdb that he dispose his property in ipoh,
my fren say cant u check
the officer reply actually we cant check,
so pls submit your proof of disposing property to us 

high risk high return

anyone working in IT field in spore? Im curious on the salary part, if you're getting 5k here in msia, does it mean that when u go spore you can request the same amount in sgd? dollar to dollar?