Have you signed the offer letter with new employer in Sg? If yes, then you can resign in your old company. EP for my case just within 2 working days I already got notified successful.

Wow, your sg company can wait you for 3 months to start work? That's amazing you must be in niche and high demand work. C

That's why I come to this forum. Hope to make new friends. I guess on one hand I want to earn sing dollars but on the other, I am sceptical whether I can compete with the Sgpreans, esp. Their attitude towards work. Workaholic? Kiasu? So, there is this fear in me.

Me too. 4 years ago I made the leap from Msia to SG with >10% increase (dollar to dollar).

Having been in my industry, this made me realise that always demand the market rate there, not based on your previous renumeration.

Of course network platform is a big market, no doubt about. I start from normal network line, until now being professional in security, firewall in security and telco company. We also know that Cisco Juniper Fortinet, and others have so many different kinds of cert, voice, data center, ISP base. Dont make you mistaken that I only understand that data network is the only platform in the network stream.

The fact that we do get underpaid by Singapore Company. Not just me, my friends, my customer who are in this stream all are complaining getting underpaid. IT is a very big platform, but salary is not so high as you think. Website can only give you rough estimation of what it should be now, but in fact in real life majority is not getting that. Also think about this. Changing job maybe the only possible to get the salary hike up.

The challenge is there, with those majority certs are getting more and more common compare few years back. As the requirement higher, those basic certificate like CCNA and JNCIA look like a must to get just more normal network helpdesk jobline. Don't get me wrong that those without CCNA will not get network helpdesk job. Just that it's getting harder compare few years back.

But one real fact is that, Singapore company will only take Malaysian into the job just for 3 main reasons.
1) overquota for foreigner. Malaysian seems like is not within that Quota with foreigner. LOL ! If you require a pass/permit to work, you are an FT.
2) We are cheaper. ( and its a fact ) Because a lot of ppl are spoiling the market. And trust me, if you think M'sian are cheap labour, you have not seen how low some people from other countries can request
3) Singaporean salary demand is very high. This 1 is a fact.

I think you have misread what I wrote. I still stand by what I said - the kind of Indian professionals (at least in the field I am in) I have seen and dealt with, they are really good.

U lose the PR once u move out of Singapore anyways.. no lost.

To add on fon ep part. You should get a in-principle approval letter before you come to SG. You must print out the ipa letter when entering sg

2nd Gen PR = person who attained PR ship thru his/her parent who were PR holders?

Im consider young, but my parent are Malaysian working in Malaysia. So i do not need to serve right?

Please correct me if im wrong. 

No such thing, if you're granted PR, and your son is below 18, he's subjected to NS, irregardless of their nationality

Correct, but nowadays if you don't include your son in PR application, most probably it'll be rejected. And in case you're to renounce your son's pr before he turns 16, your renewal may be rejected as well.

Just wonder, if to work in SG and to bring along wife & 2 kids with $6k salary enough to survive? So far, I know renting a 3R flat and sending kids to childcare already cost $2.5k & $2k respectively. Any advice is very much appreciated

Hi, again thanks to all who give a lot of great info...

I'd secured a job at Jurong East, International Business Park.

Now scouting for a single room which below SGD 550, among Ang Mo Kio, Bukit Merah and Boon Lay, which area do you guys can briefly suggested?

Haven't really make a decision yet and going to settle the room problem within 1 day (around November), any comments or thought would be deeply appreciate.

Thanks

Thanks for all your feedbacks, I think I'm pretty much settled in regard to where to stay, 1st choice now is Jurong East.

Anyone have any idea of cost of getting a foreign domestic helper? In terms of up front and monthly costs (salary + ???).

You got a point. Plus, I signed some consent form or something, probably they can access my tax/bank details to verify pay slip. I'm not sure, to what extend, the rights that these 3rd party has...

1. Take KTM from Seremban to Woodlands SG  in the morning, you should reach SG in the afternoon. From Woodlands to Changi you can take the MRT red line from Woodlands to City Hall, then switch to green line continue from City Hall to Changi. Book same day train tickets for night train back to Seremban to save on accomodation. Flight is possible too but it should be more expensive.

2. Definitely need a passport.

But you don't get to collect the points for ezlink.

But I still flashpay user

Sometimes don't have small change go NTUC just Flashpay

i believe he talking about the travelsmartrewards.