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FAQs

Employments:
Job opportunities are always available for those with higher education level & in-demand work experience. The following are the list of available online job sites:
1. Jobstreet
2. Contact Singapore
3. Jobs Central
4. JobsDB
5. eFinancialCareers.sg

The most effective but expensive method is to do it the old fashion way. Come over to Singapore, flip through the recruitment newspaper and apply for your job through the company itself. This way, you're almost guaranteed to be in front of the queue from those who applied through Jobstreet. You can also attend their interviews without any delays while you're here in SG. Do note that you can only stay 30 days at a time, and a total of only 60 days out of every 90.

Various employment passes are available to enable you to work in Singapore depending on your skills and pay. Employers will help you in the application of passes. Your job is however pending on the approval of the pass. Information of types of passes are available through MOM's website. Do not worry of what passes you get. Eventually all will allow you to work in SG. Some do fuss about it due to "status" and extra benefits (i.e: credit card and contract phone applications). Just be hardworking and move up the passes or apply directly for PR few years down the road.

All you need to know about PR application and requirements are available here: http://www.ica.gov.sg/page.aspx?pageid=151&secid=150

Please take note that ex Singaporean PRs who renounced their status without serving the National Service will have their job and employment pass applications greatly degraded.

CPF and Taxes:
Malaysians working under employment/work passes are exempted from paying CPF. Singapore PRs have to contribute to CPF according to the rates found here: http://mycpf.cpf.gov.sg/Employers/Gen-Info...ri/ContriRa.htm

As for the complicated tax returns, i'll just provide the website so everyone can search under their own categories. http://www.iras.gov.sg/irasHome/page01.aspx?id=88

Accomodations:
HDBs everywhere! Prime and new areas should cost around SGD600 and above per room (with or without utilities). You can still find small & cramped sub-SGD400 per room in remote or rundown areas. If you can afford the luxury, apartments and condos are the way to go. SGD1000 onwards per room is the current market price. Normally comes with swimming pool and gym facilities.

Below are some useful sites:
http://www.flatsdb.com/
http://www.hdbflat.blogspot.com/
http://singapore.roomsdb.net/
http://easyroommate.com.sg/
http://www.sg-house.com/
http://www.propertyguru.com.sg/

Transportation:
No need to describe any further. Been compared and discussed too many times between SG and MY. In SG, you can be anywhere in the island just by using public transport. The all too convenient EZ link card can be used in both MRT and bus (even McD yeah!). For places out of reach, taxi is the answer. Don't worry, you won't get touted with expensive fares. They are a bunch of professionals with accurate meters. First entry onto cab is SGD2.80 or SGD3.00. The rest runs on meter plus any surcharges from tolls, airport surcharge or stopping period. If you are travelling in group of 4, taxi is the cheaper option on certain routes compared to others.

Coach: http://www.journeymalaysia.com/ptasingapore.htm
SBS bus maps: http://www.sbstransit.com.sg/iris3/nextbus.aspx
MRT maps: http://www.smrt.com.sg/trains/images/tn_networkmap_big.jpg
Directions: http://gothere.sg/maps or http://maps.google.com.sg/

Malaysians can drive in cars/bikes to work in SG. For SG PRs, you have to drive singapore registered vehicles. More info here: http://www.lta.gov.sg/content/lta/en/motor...fsingapore.html

Expenses:
This is very subjective depending on the spending power of different individuals. But here are the basic breakdowns on rough estimates:
1. Accoms SGD600 (varies)
2. Food SGD500 (varies)
3. Transport SGD60
4. Entertainment SGD300 (strip it off if wanna save)
5. Shopping $$$

TO CHECK FOR YOUR PR APPLICATION STATUS, KINDLY VISIT THIS LINK
https://ienquiry.ica.gov.sg/index.do

TO CHECK EP APPLICATION STATUS, VISIT THIS LINK
https://eponline.mom.gov.sg/epol/PEPOLENQM0...isplayAction.do

This post has been edited by deodorant: Feb 20 2013, 10:22 AM

Further Information about Converting your MY license to SG license:



V11 Top 10 Contributors:



This post has been edited by deodorant: Sep 12 2012, 07:32 PM

Noticed a lot of new people joining Singapore working force. Maybe another round of gathering ? Our last BBQ session was pretty successful with 20+ ppl show up

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Added on September 12, 2012, 8:40 pm2nd link is much faster to clear immigration but further away if work in CBD area. Probably take the same amount of time from either causeway.

This post has been edited by Mackiddo: Sep 12 2012, 08:41 PM

When's the next gathering? I may be able to join.

Another place to look for job: https://www.jobstylar.com or http://www.facebook.com/JobStylar

me too.

Hi guys, some employer I know have ask me to recommend potential employee for him. Job position is Project Engineer in Electrical Construction Sector. Company name is P&C so pls pm me if you are interested.

This post has been edited by athrun300: Sep 12 2012, 10:45 PM

Welcome to V12.

Iphone 5 is coming as well.
worry that going to be a long queue at starhub.

This post has been edited by yhoong12: Sep 13 2012, 10:32 AM

order online lor...unless u wanna go with a plan......but when will it be available with the telcos?21st Sept?

Haha, because i want to recontract, still can order online?hehe
starhub release on starhub news page that 21 sept will roll out iphone 5, what do you think?

Ok...
singtel also same same
SOS
Singtel's Iphone5 availability

Who's is going to Legoland this 6 Oct?

I have a question, I'm starting work in SG this Oct, am I allowed to drive my car in SG while holding an employment pass? at least for the period when I'm not yet a PR. How much do I need to pay per month?

This post has been edited by digitanium: Sep 13 2012, 04:11 PM

Can go wash dishes: $3,000 Salary for Dish Washer

Actually does anyone think this make sense? like if dish washer already 3K, how bout chef? manager? waiter?

http://www.lta.gov.sg/content/ltaweb/en/ro...-singapore.html

May I know is it possible to find a job in sg through some job agents? Any recommendation?

You can find job in SG anyway you can, job market, job agent, job fair, newspapers, as long as there is an opening.

You can't if you staying in sg

Some fresh grad getting more than that for lesser hours and easier jobs.

You have more PhD in sg than those who willing to take up this demanding jobs. They face two crunch time every day plus super crunch time during weekend. Compare to much easier cleaner job and it's salary, 3k is reasonable.

Agree! Demand and supply. I bet people would still be tempted to go for it because of the salary offered, but may end up quiting few days later after experiencing the hardship of being a dishwasher.

My spr rep is expiring in 6 months. Any clue when can i start applying renewal?

I wanna go legoland

not really, today is my last day....and will be going back next week.....

Is S$2000 enough to survive for a freshgrad working in Singapore for the first time?

I dont know how much a fresh graduate needed to survive, but there are tons of people surviving with a paycheck lesser than S$2K.

Depend on the way you live in singapore, room rental for single room(common/utility room), cost you 450-600, then transport i guess not so out going person 150 should be enough, food, eat at kopitiam or food court, cost you around 300-400,the remaining should be your spending, so tell me, can you survive ?

Hello, 1st time join this thread

Does anyone know what is the average salary for fresh network engineer in SG for (degree grad in Malaysia).

Does anyone have IT network related job can intro to me?

>.< Already look for 2 month but no news so far.

Although is not much, but sure can survive..
But all this depends on the person, i got a relatives salary + OT can go up to 3k a month, but he always visit Marina Bay Sands and now owe many friends money and Ah Longs in JB..

do you have CCNA/CCNP?

Did you try System Support related job? it should be quite similiar to network engineer.

btw, can tell me what job is suitable for a network engineer, support job?

hi...just wondering.
some of you are on EP and receive the CPF for employer contribution in cash instead.
Just wondering, what is the %? 16?
So when you apply for PR and is approved, you will be paying Full rate (3rd year SPR) or follow first year?
If follow first year, employer contribution is 4%, u get 12% remaining in cash if u were receiving 16% before being PR?

How long does it take to apply for a Singaporean working visa ?

This post has been edited by clofae: Nov 19 2012, 12:48 AM

Ya, I have CCNA, MCP, VCP. But It seems no matter what cert I have, since I'm fresh, its hard to lay a job.
Do you have any recommendation?

I'm not sure. But I'm looking for network engineer or system admin (2nd choice since cannot find job in network field)

This post has been edited by calson: Sep 14 2012, 08:30 PM

Can share more about your degree (uni) and industry.

local fresh poly grad also getting around 2k.

Thanks for the replies guys. Im a fresh graduate from monash uni sunway majoring in accounting.

It has been sometime since our last gathering... 6th Oct we are going Legoland JB. Feel free to pm me or visit our gathering thread if u wanna join.

I am not in accounting but V11(last few pages) has some posting on fresh accountant pay. Search for it.

I'm curious but what is actually written on your degree scroll as the institution conferring the degree? Is it Monash University or is it Monash University Sunway or some other term?

Does Sunway or Malaysia or Affiliate or With Permission etc appear anywhere on the degree scroll?

This post has been edited by seantang: Sep 16 2012, 11:25 AM

Anyone can tell me why SG food is so sucks...???

Hi all, just curious for those working in SG, where do you mainly save/invest your money? Malaysia or Singapore?

SG la, last time my fren invested in RWS SG, then profit about $120K...

If you are talking about the share counter, their price drop alot.

If you are talking about their gambling counter, you should also mentioned how many people took their own live at the end of their investment.

How much have you invested in RWS so far?

everything taste sweet....

I talking about share counter la, he bought it during IPO time.

Wow, you frens must either very knowledgeable or have insider information or just very lucky... haha

I'm currently save in Malaysia FD... but considering every time i also loose a bit of $$ due to exchange rate... so far still unable to find any better place to park my money in SG for short term...

Can invest in SG properties yo...

Does anyone know what is the average salary for fresh network engineer in SG for (degree grad in Malaysia).

Does anyone have IT network related job can intro to me?

>.< Already look for 2 month but no news so far.

cause most of the cheap food is cooked by prcs? or it is being too commercialized already, factory style..

You mean Genting Sg?

If he bought during IPO at $0.35, and then sold during the historical high range >$2, he would have needed to invest $20K and hold on until it hit 600% profit margin. That is hard to believe because human nature will usually sell once it goes 100-200% especially for IPO shares because of the windfall feeling. Your friend has very strong conviction and acumen.

sg do have a lot of nice restaurant that serve top notch food and they have so many top chef in Singapore. so, which one have you tried ?

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Added on September 17, 2012, 1:48 amjust curious, how many people actually in the 'we' now? Those who planned to go might consider buying the ticket online earlier coz >7 days got 25% discount

This post has been edited by Mackiddo: Sep 17 2012, 01:51 AM

The best food i've tasted in my life so is in Sg - a restaurant not kopitiam.
The roadside food quality drops due to outsourcing issue. Noodles done by factory, cook by foreigners kuli etc. M'sia is not far behid this phenomena as no 2nd gen wish to take over. Look at penang, it's like a Singapore in 1980s... Soon all the famous Penang stalls will be gone.

in fact there are tons of nice restaurants provide nice food out there, like Japanese, Korean, Italian, Western, Chinese & Fusion restaurants. If you always eat at hawker ctr then yeah, most of the food in hawker sucks.

Most of the higher end food is better in SG than in MY. Even the Chinese restaurants (like Imperial Treasure, Lei Garden or specialist Crystal Jade eg. Peking Duck, La Mian Xiao Long Bao or Palace rather than Kitchen) are up to par with the best in KL and Ipoh. Western, Japanese and Korean etc are hands down better in SG.

Mainstream shopping center chain restaurants are exactly the same on both sides of the causeway. Indeed the uniformity of food quality (or the reverse) is the entire point.

For food court stuff... Food Republic is not bad. But the rest like Food Junction, S22, HDB food centers etc. are simply not up to the standard of some of the better coffee shop stalls in KL or Ipoh. But then again... if you're a local and you grew up here, you'd know exactly which stall in which food center has the best xxx, yyy etc - just like I know for KL and Ipoh. The fact that we are foreigners means that we typically go for convenience instead of cari makan... and that will lead you to the "chain" food court stalls manned by the banglas etc. Most stalls selling similar stuff are run by single operators who run tens or even hundreds of individual stalls in food courts all over Singapore.

This post has been edited by seantang: Sep 17 2012, 06:03 PM

Hi guys,

I will start work at SG in November and need some advice. My office is located at Jurong Island. Is mit more economical to rent at Nusajaya and drive my car there every day? Office starts at 8 am so what time do I need to leave for work?

driving to work is always good. 2nd link traffic also not that bad. You could probably leave as late as 7am

hi, let say a fresh malaysian graduate works at sg for 3 month and decided to resign as the job is no no. Should him include the job experience into the resume for another job search in sg or just let it be?

This post has been edited by athrun300: Sep 18 2012, 06:50 AM

better drive lor, nearby only...

Change job? i thought you are one of those just get job? anything you learn from your previous job? because 3 month sometimes is just not enough for you to learn thing, only included experience where when interviewer ask you and you able to tell them what you do in previous job.

I am still with the company but it's just that after a few month here i just don't think i am suitable for the job. I works for 11-12 hours 6 days a week and it is physically demanding as it is site work

Personally, I am not sure if leaving out information like this on your resume will do you any good, your future employer will probably ask if you have had any experience working in Singapore? Correct me if am wrong, i think they are able to find out from your work pass.

You are the one who in the shipyard one izit?

i also think that they can found out my previous employment from my EP. Better be frank. Thanks for your reply. Anyways, any taiko here know any good engineering consultancy firm? Try google before but it's still all blur.

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Added on September 18, 2012, 10:44 amYes, shipyard work is not for whinnie and i experience it first hand . Money is good but no life.

This post has been edited by athrun300: Sep 18 2012, 10:44 AM

Maybe different people,different thinking, i know someone work in shipyard also, and he now buy condo at JB and new car already, meanwhile i got nothing.haha..cannot jealous on him, only can work hard to get it.

yes, different people different perspective. The money do come with a price though. I would want a job i have passion in and money will eventually come along the path

currently i'm using maxis postpaid. if i work in SG, i would like to maintain the phone number because many contact list. what is the cheapest option for me?

2) is it possible to convert the number to SG service providers?
3) any websites that I can refer to about this issue?
4) how about you guys working in SG. how do you manage this?

i mainly maintain this number to call/receive Malaysian numbers. of course if it's bundled with internet service is better because i'm using smartphone.

i tried to google this issue but i can't find a good reference.

thanks!

This post has been edited by SONYSONY: Sep 18 2012, 01:06 PM

That is only true IF and only IF other people are also passionate about whatever you're passionate about... and they are willing to pay you money to be passionate on their behalf.

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Added on September 18, 2012, 1:27 pmNo, you cannot port your Malaysian number over to Singapore. You can only maintain your number with Maxis and then use international roaming when you're in Singapore.

So, you cannot port phone numbers from one country to another. In fact, you cannot even use the same number in different countries (ie. including the country and district codes, and in Malaysia's case - the telco code). That's simply because each country has a unique country code, and not many countries use a telco code.

Even if you just want to use the same Malaysian phone number (not including country and telco code) in Singapore, it will not totally be the same even if it were available for registration. Malaysian phone numbers are 7 digits. Singapore is 8 digits.

This post has been edited by seantang: Sep 18 2012, 01:27 PM

What is your passion? Having passion alone doesn't feed you.
You're young and equipped with very little experience it would be more viable if you could suck it up and learn as much as possible from your current job instead of focusing on the long working hours.

Anyhoo.. the choice is yours.

valid point. I do hope i can achieve that one day. Now i can just hope to find new job soon.

Well, wish you luck, you experience it before and you should know that job hunting is tough and take some times.

i will go to IBP (International Business Park) nxt month for training. may I know any cheap hotel nearby?
I'm planning to stay at fragrance hotel oceanview or waterfront

Thanks!

This post has been edited by SONYSONY: Sep 18 2012, 02:57 PM

anyone queuing for the iphone 5 this friday?

Queuing is by "invitation". Yes that's what I was told by the Telco.

I read from hwz that singhel is providing ticket system while my provider still go with old skool 1st come 1st serve queue method.

What you mean by queue by invitation? how they invite??

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Added on September 18, 2012, 3:45 pmGo training no provide accommodation?

This post has been edited by yhoong12: Sep 18 2012, 03:45 PM

It is true. I just got my job in JSPL. I was jobless for almost 2 months before i got the job in JSPL. I quit my previous job before getting new job even thought my ex boss counter offered my and it was quite tempting. Even my client offered me a job but i didnt take it. Looking for a job in sg is not really ec.

F1 night race is coming alredy
so what's the plan ?
anyone bought ttickets?

for me i downgrade the maxis postpaid to rm30/month plan and get a new SG number.

newcomer? What position?

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Added on September 18, 2012, 7:24 pmI pay the training myself.
that's why i need a cheap hotel.
any other hotels better than fragrance hotel?
the hotel is near to training center. maybe just need 15 mins by taxi.

tq!

This post has been edited by SONYSONY: Sep 18 2012, 07:25 PM

port your number over to umobile prepaid.. no roaming charges in SG.
and RM1 gives you 3 days access. RM100 gives u 300 days.

but bare in mind, Umobile coverage is not that good in somepart of KL.
But the coverage in JB is very very good. and its not expensive to use in SG.

last time i use my maxis prepaid, 1 min = Rm5. u mobile 1 min = RM0.5 (outgoing and incoming same price)

I'm not too sure if you could port to prepaid but if you could, then u can pay a fee to keep the prepaid active for 1 year without the need of topping up. I'm dong the same for my DIGI.

It'll be cheaper to sign up a plan with the sg telcos, especially if you want 3G connection.

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Added on September 18, 2012, 8:21 pm3 days of partying !!! Of coz going

This post has been edited by Mackiddo: Sep 18 2012, 08:21 PM

Nope. I'm just going to update my 4S to iOS6 tomorrow and get 99% of the iPhone 5 experience.

Then if you swap out the glass back panel for an aluminum or magnesium one, you get a bit of the tactile experience, thinness and weight savings as well. I found a website that sells wood replacements for the back panel. Need to find one that does it in metal.

Making it longer doesn't do anything for me. It has to be wider as well to accommodate bigger fonts, website spacing etc... ie. the shortcomings of the current screen size.

I just hope iOS 6 is better at corporate email. Hope it word wraps text in emails when there are graphic attachments. Right now it shrinks any graphic to the width of the very narrow screen and shrinks the text along with it down to a ridiculously unreadable size. And when you zoom in, it doesn't rewrap the text. Ridiculous and unforgiveable for a business phone.

And hopefully it allows the collapsing of email folders when you need to file emails away or find filed emails. Currently all my hundreds of nested folders are irreversibly expanded and it's a damn pain to scroll over every folder to do any filing.

Simple and basic features in Android and BB, but in Apple... No wonder I hate the phone.

This post has been edited by seantang: Sep 18 2012, 08:31 PM

anywhere you would recommend to get that done?

Hi All, finally got my EP approved.
Just would like to ask do you normally take bus/flight back to hometown, my case is KL.
Think to go back this week, but the flight is expensive + LCCT taxi fare..
how about bus? which one to recommend? from woodland to sunway or subang or puchong.. thx in advance ^6

It's something like this: http://iphone4parts.com/shop/iphone-4s-par...ipfes8a53g98830

Quite easy to replace if you have the proper pentalobe screwdriver for the 2 screws at the bottom. If anybody finds a shop in SG that does the replacement, please let me know. If you want to organise a group buy online, I'm in as well.

This post has been edited by seantang: Sep 18 2012, 10:00 PM

Bro care to share some tips? I'll start work in November. I just got the IPA from my company. Where to do the medical test? How long to get results?



I checked the toll rates. Bloody hell! if daily drive a car need to spend around RM40 for toll alone. I asked a friend in JB and he says the cheapest is to take bus and then lrt. Then I need to wake up at 430 waaaa

Well its a good option, but before I can invest in properties I need other form of investments to build capital for getting properties... haha

a few of us is at ibp how many days? consider hostel?



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Would like to seek for advice regarding to my issue.

I've made a mistake where when I sign the contract, I forgot to clarify on the CPF thingy and basic salary. What I understand is that in some company, they'll pay the CPF in cash to those holding work permit, in my case, an EP holder. Now, the company thought that the salary I demanded are including the CPF which basically means that the basic salary that I expected are reduced.

I'm currently under probation. Is it possible to revise this after my probation period?

haha..i'm asking for advices also..
as for the medical check up, i went to company assigned clinic. ^^

This post has been edited by aeiou007: Sep 19 2012, 07:18 AM

Thanks for sharing! good read!

please note that there's NO CPF contribution for work pass/permit holders...EP/S Pass/ n so on

SOS
CPF

Copy and paste a portion from that link

Employees who are Exempted from CPF Contributions
a. Foreigners on Employment Pass, S Pass, Miscellaneous Work Pass or Work Permit
CPF contributions are not allowed for foreigners. Both the employer’s and employee’s share of contributions for foreign employees on Employment Pass, S Pass, Miscellaneous Work Pass or Work Permit will not be accepted.