It's never too late to take this drastic move. 6 years ago I bit the bullet and swam to small small island.

Sg economy is not as rosy as you think.. sure, the exchange rate is good. But you are coming in under some really difficult circumstances.

For one, youll need a work permit, which costs a bomb and your job can be easily filled by a local.

Those of us here are probably cheap labour. And since you are competing with the Indians and Filipinos expect to work doubly hard.

Now combine this with miserable pay and living conditions, it's a guess why anyone wants to come here to slog it out. Haha

I've been searching for jobs back in kl. If one can offer my asking rate, I'll jump. Sg is not fun. No joke.

Applying job to SG really have to depend on luck , I have friends submitted hundreds of application , only a few calls came back , if you are dead serious just keep trying.

The easier route is to get referral , to be refer to a certain company or position , that would be easier especially the company had went through some candidates and didn't find a suitable one.

fruitie It would have been easier 4 years ago when you had 2 years exp Anyway without a cable of some sort it's not that easy nowadays unless you've got very specialized skills. Since your company has an SG office I think your best bet will be to try get an internal move of some sort.

By the way, What do you guys means by FT ?

fruitie Aiyo, you want s$15k they offer you s$14.7k, ok lah just accept only.

You wont be getting CPF, only start that contribution from yourself and company once you become a PR

u found a good company, not much company willing to do that

Wooooo wawawaa that's the dream first job right there
Wish I had that, can cover most of your rent already!

tats y i say sg company not all so bad one

some are really good and many good benefits

submit cv at nite and they offer on next day?
u must have a very impressive cv to not even require an interview.

    6 figure salary rolex and luxury car leh. kena restructure retrench lo what else. now kpkb have to eat FT rice. like us also lo, u wait 10 more years, next retrench cycle sure kena then go drive uber kpkb to new gen FT say last time limpeh big shot banker earning 6 figure per month, all u new FT good la sit office life. the cycle already started long time ago nothing new.

Hard to say la, since I dont know how much is the real $ amount against other factors

But either way just insist you deserve XXX that you were asking for and justify more
Worst that can happen is they just repeat that their offer is final, then you can decide to take or not

But that 16% compensate for CPF is good, so far never heard of any companies here giving that

what do you know of my accomplishments, experience, qualifications and skill to make such a judgement call?

Has it ever occurred to you that out of 20 people in kl operations, why was I the only one to not be let go and furthermore, brought into sg under all costs?

You know nothing about me to make a suggestion..

Heck, what do you know of my field or industry to be able to even suggest anything?

For someone who supposedly is earning a lot of money, haven't youve learnt to keep your opinions to yourself?

I know what is best for myself. If I say pr is the next route for me if I want to progress here in sg, then that is what I will do..

His KL side office got shut down and restructured leh. Put in other word mean kena double boil mushroom in cantonese.

Exactly, I believe his situation was his "6 figure income" was only because they were paying him an average SGD salary
So in other words, he couldn't get anywhere close to the same MYR converted pay at other MY companies for his position
Of course all those were left out when talking about the rolex and luxury car 

2 to 3k is more than enough for single staying in sg

That's quite low compared to KL. Cost of living is indeed lower in SG?

hahaha basically i've been told to give a figure to the ultimate boss and the only real way i have to gauge is to add on living costs to how much i want to hantar balik lol.
1 to 1 pay and relocation allowance sounds very favourable to me! 

What is a P1 pass? I was under the impression all EPs were the same?