So far not yet, but if got chance, looking forward to test it. Hehe

yea, its a great product, Im using it for 2 years already, feel free to drop me a pm if you need any help

New offer coming in..

Job Title : Roll Out Engineer
Job Description : Preparing documents (BOQ/PO/PR) as well as verifying vendor document & proposals
Years spent in company : NA
Company : One of local telco player
Industry : Telecommunication
Tenure : Permanent
Employment Level : Junior Exec
Experience before joining : 10 months in current company
Highest paper qualification/ education background : Degree in EE
Salary : RM3,200 not include other allowance & benefits
Location : Shah Alam

Sadly need to reject the offer even though now will move to client side, not vendor .. telco is not my playground anymore

Job Title : Finance Specialist
Job Description : finance data quality control
Years spent in company : 1 year
Company : IT
Industry : IT
Tenure : Permanent
Employment Level : senior
Experience before joining : 4 years
Highest paper qualification/ education background : Diploma
Salary : RM5,400
Location : cyberjaya

Why want to reject? That offer seem okay and Shah Alam cost for lunch is relatively cheaper than the high end area in KL.

Job Title : Systems Engineer
Age : 32
Job Description : Servers setup, support and maintenance
Years spent in company : 2 months
Company : Local software house
Industry : IT
Tenure : Permanent
Employment Level : Senior executive
Experience before joining : 7 years IT experience in a Local SI company.
Spend almost 2 years for my own business but end up now working with this company
Highest education background : Degree in IT
Salary : RM 6700 basic
Location: KL

Well, I'm lucky enough to get them pay me the salary i earned last 2 years ago.
But this is more to a dead end job for me as the company doesn't really invest much on the technology. Hopefully work here for some times and i can jump to a IT company to offer me more opportunity.

Planning to go back Sabah and look for job there, but the salary really

I am age 33 and still lose to him.

I am age 33 yrs old this year, what is the salary range not consider embarrassing and standard for my age.

Job Title : Vice President
Job Desciption : Actuarial – P&C
Years spent in company : Just started
Company : Insurance company
Industry : Insurance
Employment Level : Vice President
Experience before joining : More than 10 years
Highest paper qualification/ education background : Master’s + Fellow
salary : USD 200k + 30-50% bonus + stocks & options
Location: Lower Manhattan

Actually this is not the best offer I received. Another insurance company in Boston offers me more, but I turned them down because money is not my main concern. The scopes and responsibilities of the position are more important, the potential for future opportunities in NYC is way better.

Something I find interesting in this post is that some people here say they are Executive/Sr. Executive level, and I start wondering do we have a different definition of what Executive means. Executive level in my understanding is people above me, probably earning millions a year, with at least an Executive VP title. And I don’t make this up, if you go to global recruiters hiring Executive level people, they are looking for at least USD 300-500k base plus all sort of bonuses/stocks which can stack up to million.

This post has been edited by Igloo0000: Jun 18 2016, 04:18 AM

10k tax return is too much. Since you have no bonus, you might pay too much property taxes and mortgage interest. You should adjust your W4 allowances. I always +1/2 allowances in addition to what I should put in because I pay huge chunk of excess taxes for my annual bonus.

You're right, it's definitely a title/industry thing. VPs are a lot more common in the insurance/financial industries for example but in other industries where it's not so title heavy there may be 6-10 VPs considered as executive/senior executive level, all directly reporting to the CEO.

i think i know ur twitter, and linkedin somewhere u sound familiar

It is not an industry thing because I realize many people in Malaysia use the executive level title regardless of industry. Maybe it is a common practice in Malaysia to inflate the titles.

Insurance industry is definitely not title heavy. If you are talking about the field people, like the sales, or consultants, maybe yes, because they need a good title to leave good impression. But in the corporate actuarial world, it is totally opposite. In my previous company, someone under me with an assistant actuary title earn as much as a VP is other department.

The executive label is very different in Malaysia, it literally refers to people doing the grunt work ie. executing. As a graduate you start at the executive level, move up to middle management and maybe later to senior management. Not sure if this is what you're referring to?

Title inflation is as usual, dependent on industry and company. I work in a very flat company where a team lead is only 3 reporting levels away from the CEO and has an equivalent salary of a VP in a bank. Title inflation is pretty rampant in many places though.

Thanks for the clarifications. I think I kind of understand the system in Malaysia now. Basically in Malaysia, when you say you are executives, it means you are somewhat the lowest level doing dirty works in an organization. That it contradictory to my understanding because here when you say you are executives, that means you are the C-level / EVP level of the organization, earning millions a year.

In Malaysia everything inflation except salary. 10 years back when I was 32 and having the same paper qualification and job scope as yours, working in banking IT industry already earning similar salary. However if we factor in today's USD exchange rate ie RM 4.10 vs RM 3.70 (2006) and cost of living, basically your current salary is way lower compare to back then standard.

My 2 cents is look out for better opportunity. Anyway I am not asking you to jump ship frequently, just FYI that I stayed with my first employer for 14 years and yet not qualified for long service award (20 years)

but i dont have twitter..

Job Title : System Engineer
Age : 24
Job Desciption : Documents, meetings, Testing and commisioning
Years spent in company : 1 Year
Company : Engineering
Industry : Railway
Tenure : Permanent
Experience before joining : 6 months (Other field)
Highest paper qualification/ education background : Degree in Mechatronics
salary : RM4250 (Basic 3300 + Car Allowance 550 + Performance Allowance 400) excluding OT, Claims
Location: Selangor
Bonus : Lowest maybe 1 month

Is railway a good career path in Malaysia? Should stay in contractor companies or go for consultancy? (Prefer systems not constructions)

Bro may i know which railway company are u working with? Can pm me the company name? Im interested in joining railway industry. Thx.