A human can be trained if they are competent enough. All these 'low talk' by the manager is a bunch of BS. How capable you want the person to be? Do they still want to work for you if they are perfect? Betul ka? Big Ego la...

^ in the end they hire the cheapest of them all,
in case the guy fail, the boss can say "well at least the guy is cheap"

Yes. you are correct. Most are looking for the cheapest now. You pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

I guess in this case, if they do give me an offer, I am the monkey.
owh well, give me few more years hopefully i can evolve into a human

How did the GM know all of that (adaptable, flexible.....)in 30 minutes time, it bothers me.

I realize the GM interviewer will press you to pull your expected salary lower duing the salary negotiation stage. It's a tactic

Yeap, if u show u are commercially minded, he will say u not technical enuf.
If u can show both, they will say u are overqualified than our expected level, would u consider reducing ur pay to our expected level.

lol. Yes, they are smart in twist and turns. Smart tactic to make them more superior and important.

ya i still ard....close to 14k(inclusive of allowances+bonus, which is taxable rite?)

so i still have to pay 1st then only get the rebate?

still a bit

If i could recall, salary below $20k, no nid to pay taxEither u or ur company would need todo filing though

ya that is resident tax rite? but i stayed less than 183 days for last year... so categorized under non-resident which is entitled to be taxed 15% or progressive tax structure(for resident tax) whichever higher? that what the iras website said... that y i confused

If you have stayed for <=183 days last year, yes, you are regarded as a non-resident to be taxed at 15%. But you can request IRAS to reassess your profile from non-resident to resident by providing your current employment details. After IRAS reassessed, they will credit the amount that you have paid into your bank via GIRO.

More info here.

BTW, todays budget. Sg will reduce intake of Foreign Talents. So, this means it is going to be slightly tougher to come in. Good luck.

Can't blame them making noise. Even the local PR here is feeling the heat from FT.

It is the employers fault who wanted to bring in lower pay people squeezing out the locals and PRs.

This post has been edited by extremepower: Feb 17 2012, 11:27 PM

That's only half the story. You are a consumer as well as an employee/service provider.

You want to pay more for everything?

Do you study econ supply and demand and macroecon? It will never end arguing. In politics, citizen comes first. Else, why jibby give people money? else, they'll get booted out.

I did. Which is why I scratching my head where you came up with the ridiculous notion of blaming it all on employers.

Blame the citizens then.

In the coming months, when the limitations on foreigners are implemented, Singaporeans will piss and whine about everything from higher bus fares to more expensive food courts.

And then the other shoe will drop, when they realise that kicking out the foreigners,.. does nothing to increase their employment. Because the economy will shrink and probably decrease average citizen income rather than increase it. If foreigners are considered cheap labour taking away their (Singaporeans') jobs, then what makes them think that the jobs will stay in Singapore after the supply of cheap labour disappears?

Countries that import stuff from Singapore are not going to pay for price increases just because Singaporeans suddenly want to do less work for more pay (compared to foreigners).

This post has been edited by seantang: Feb 18 2012, 12:10 AM

I am not going to argue with you man. Then why is the Finance Minister doing this? You better go and talk to the Minister then. Maybe your economics is better.

There are many ways to skin a cat. It's up to how creative you are.

This post has been edited by extremepower: Feb 18 2012, 12:15 AM

The finance minister should argue with former finance minister, who said exactly what I said.

We live in the present. lol. So I win. lol.

Sure you do.