Hi guys,

Just gotten my offer letter from one of the Big 4 prior to CNY break.

Was just wondering normally how long would it take for epass application to be approved from date of submission?

It's CNY. Should take more than 1 week.

depends on whether u r asking bout the sales side or construction side...

Hi, will be movin down next week, would like to ask

1) What is the average waiting time for fiber installation there?
2) Anyone using prepaid broadband? how it is?
3) Anyone using mioTV? worth it?

cheers

I see I see, good news.

1. Normally take anything from 2 weeks to 1 month. Depends on which provider you sign up with. Is your place fibre ready ?
3. My mioTV Family+ subscription came as a package together with my 200mbps fibre. Decent contents, with 4 to 5 National Geographic channels. Subscribed Sports+ for my fix of EPL and F1 . Overall cost around SGD$120 per month. Well, it's much more cheaper than Msia I guess.

No, I yet to offered by them just applied HR MT few days ago. I am doing HR in MNC in Malaysia that serving many of countries, and from the hierarchy structure, it seems that the company is small/medium sized. Kinda afraid to join small company due to many personal thoughts such as politics and career growth. Would be great if u can share more with me in PM

Thanks!

For Bigs4 and some companies in SG, usually MOM will give the future staff an "in-principle" approval for employment pass prior to them offering you a position.

This inprinciple approval is subject to you passing the medical and agreeing to the company's T&Cs. The medical examination is done randomly and some people may not require a medical exam. Especially 2 of the Big4s as they have pretty good insurance coverage.

Edited: Oops forgotten to answer your question. Usually takes 1-2 days. IF you need a medical probably 3-5 days depending on your medical results.

IF no medical, you need to take the in principle approval form and go to MOM to process your EP.

This post has been edited by RecruitingTheBest: Feb 18 2013, 09:35 AM

Which Big4? I applied but none replied.

Good Day Everyone,

I'm 27 yrs old, having 3 yrs experience in Marketing, PR field. Graduated from Swinburne Australia with degree in Marketing and MBA (International). Currently, i plan to advance my career in Singapore. What are the chances i can land a job in Marketing field (prefer in MNC company.) What are the salary ranges i should expected?

Thank you in advance.

4-5k
then again i m not sure what u marketing

was wondering how does the IT field in sg looks like now? IT field such as programmers or system/business analyst....i am a fresh grade in 2012 and currently working but do plan to go further my career in sg...degree holder for computing studies...

Hi, thank you for your reply. I've worked as marketing in Real Estate, Automobile and Telecommunication firm. Mostly my past jobs involved in marketing planning & research rather than doing hard selling.

Therefore, my first few choices types of job would be:
1)Market Research & Planning Analyst
2)Online/Digital Marketing
3)Advertising & Promotion
4)Customer Service Consultant

(No specific limitation on Product lines or Services for the company)

Thanks

for salary negotiation, how should one start the opening sentence?
for eg they have offered u $xxx per annum. But you would like a higher figure.

my current company pay good bonus and i am forfeiting those if i move over now

hmm.. but im jumping from MY to SG.

Thank you for your offer. But it is significantly below....

<use if you want them more than they want you>
...what I expect given the job size and your expectations, compared to what my peers in similar jobs are being paid elsewhere.

<use if they want you more than you want them>
...what would constitute a significant PULL factor for me to consider leaving my current employer. There is currently no PUSH factor for me to leave.

This post has been edited by seantang: Feb 18 2013, 04:05 PM

thanks.

btw anyone working in Big 4? Roughly whats the AM pay like? Thats my benchmark.

Noticed a few bankers in this forum, so hope to get some advises here, as I've recently decided to look for jobs in Singapore.

I've worked in a few local banks in Malaysia as credit analyst (both commercial and corp banking side) for about 5 years. What would be the salary range for such experience in Singapore?

Before working as CA, I have also work in auditing and and other advisory work for a couple of audit firms for 5 years. Should I consider such these non CA experience in my expectation? I was told in Singapore such non direct experience are not considered, are hugely discounted, which I think is not the case in Malaysia.

Experienced credit analyst (15-20 yrs experience) can draw up to A$20k a month with specialisation esp in commodities or energy sector.
Banks here do not regard audit and advisory work experience (at least for my bank), if you apply for credit analyst position.
I'm a credit analyst btw.