Let me have a look at your grades, maybe I can help you. PM me.

Other than banks, there's also insurance, Big4 and also other places that you can go to in SG. If you don't have a decent degree, getting into banks these days can be difficult as everyone seems to be heading into that path.

One problem that i've observed with Msians from local unis is that they are always in a frog inside the tempurung style mentality. They keep thinking the world is the tempurung, they have this mentality: "I know everything inside the tempurung better than other frogs inside the tempurung so I should be able to compete with other people outisde the tempurung."

While there are certainly some areas for improvement in the SG education system, it is definitely far more advanced than Msia's, speaking from experience.

Not sure if you have really experienced or have the knowledge to compare SG and MY's education system but if you have not this is the exact tempurung style thinking that we Msians should avoid. If we don't have the knowledge to compare, we try not to make concluding remarks.

Also the problem with the Msian language. if you're chinese you know a chinese dialect, english and Malay. Problem with this is you'll probably be a Jack of all languages and a master of none. A student with excellent English results in Msia does not equals to having excellent English language skills in another country.

Sharing my two cents. I've seen many first class honours and top Msia students from local universitites became the bottomline of group interviews at MNCs in SG, AU and even HK.

if you have good grads, PM me. I do recruiting for people going into FS and Bigs.

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