hi. i'm in L'Oreal. What other things you want to ask me?
Yes working environment is good. we have a rather flat org. if you're in sales/marketing, it's very performance based. if you perform you can move up very fast.



This post has been edited by pickles: Nov 3 2006, 06:50 PM

yes right 3 main division. CPD, LPD and PPD.
oh who is your mom? 15 years... from CPD?

yup nice office as we just renovated it. we occupied the top 2 floors of uptown 2.

I did my internship with MIS. then after grad i start with CPD.

i'm in merchandising, which is also a subset of marketing as i'm reporting to a marketing manager. the marketing job in loreal is quite operational. as majority of the stuff has been set at the zone level. so most of the time is to execute it. yes of course you'll be doing brand management but at a smaller scale, not so much on the design advertising as most has been set by the zone and all you need is to do a minor tweak and localize, promotion activities i'll assume is on ground activities, yes of course. as a fresh grad, i guess you'll come in as management trainee. and if you want to do marketing, you'll have to go thru a 6 months of sales.

working environment is good as it's a very flat organization. my manager+3 is already the country manager. everything is very dynamic and fast pace. which is a total opposite of US style very structured company like P&G.

yes marketing people tends to travel more. but of course depends what level you're. a product exec of course will only get to travel for smaller scale meeting than a marketing manager. i've been travel a lot since this year. start with bkk, hk, indonesia and singapore for meeting and training.

as working hour people tends to stay quite late. the norm is 10-12 hrs.

the management trainee starting pay is 2.5k

it's not easy to get into loreal. a 4 flat result does not mean anything, it just to get notice and an opportunity for interview. what we really look for is the personality and whether your profile fit in the company. you'll have lots of interview up to the country manager level, so do expect 3-4 interviews.

depends.
BKK was 4D3N meeting
HK was 4D3N meeting
indonesia was 6D5N training
SG was 3D2N meeting

well i was in MIS, so what i most appreciate is to get to know almost all the employees in the office. know what they do and understand each function in every dept. give me a very clear idea what i want to do in future.

i would say our basic is not as competitive as the industry. however with added value such as the staff purchase, incentive trip, etc etc... it total up to be a very good package.

there's no hard and easy, it just that whether your profile fits our culture. for me i normally reach office around 8.45 and leave around 7 or 8.

MIS - Mgmt Info Sys aka IT Dept

What do u mean which part of merchandising. i'm in CPD, doing merchandising for Maybelline & Garnier

Mon-Thu formal. Friday casual

well u need one. if u want to be in marketingas as a mgmt trainee, u have to do sales for at least 3 months.

doing sales in car pool?! you must be kidding.
of course you're travelling alone.

please read the earlier post... it's all been explained