Oct 20 2009, 04:37 PM
QUOTE(limsk @ Mar 2 2009, 07:39 PM)
Manulife is in Damansara Heights, a very expensive neighbourhood. Nobody I know stays around here, but then I'm not good buddies with any Tan Sris or Puan Sris or corporate CEOs.
There are nearby places to stay which are affordable, Section 17 about 10 mins away has plenty of rooms for rent thanks to hundreds of UM and TAR students cycling through every year. Also SS1 and SS2 are also nearby (15-20 mins away).
Added on March 2, 2009, 7:49 pmIf you can learn about a company just by reading websites that will be good. Corporate websites are just like company brochures - who believes those anyway?
Please check the following:
- Can you speak passable English (nobody expects you to be an English Lit major, but you should be able to make yourself understood to our foreign customers)?
- Can you write simple programs (hopefully you didnt copy all your answers from your friends in college)?
- Can you solve simple IQ problems? (match numbers, missing sequence, etc)
Then you have no problem - its not about scoring perfectly, but as a way to weed out those completely unsuitable for the job i.e. All answers wrong on both tests and can't speak at all. Its not a test of Maths or programming language syntax either - its writing pseudocode to test your programming aptitude.
Most of the work is done for Manulife divisions in Asia - Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Phillipines, Vietnam, Shanghai. In future US and Canada. But you shouldnt expect to shuttle round the world every week like a MI6 agent - that costs money and in these days of declining budget, no finance company spends money without a good reason.
this is true. went for the writing test last week, (.net developer post) i think the questions difficulties are more towards medium level, a little bit hard for freshies especially the technical questions (except the theory questions). There are nearby places to stay which are affordable, Section 17 about 10 mins away has plenty of rooms for rent thanks to hundreds of UM and TAR students cycling through every year. Also SS1 and SS2 are also nearby (15-20 mins away).
Added on March 2, 2009, 7:49 pmIf you can learn about a company just by reading websites that will be good. Corporate websites are just like company brochures - who believes those anyway?
Please check the following:
- Can you speak passable English (nobody expects you to be an English Lit major, but you should be able to make yourself understood to our foreign customers)?
- Can you write simple programs (hopefully you didnt copy all your answers from your friends in college)?
- Can you solve simple IQ problems? (match numbers, missing sequence, etc)
Then you have no problem - its not about scoring perfectly, but as a way to weed out those completely unsuitable for the job i.e. All answers wrong on both tests and can't speak at all. Its not a test of Maths or programming language syntax either - its writing pseudocode to test your programming aptitude.
Most of the work is done for Manulife divisions in Asia - Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Phillipines, Vietnam, Shanghai. In future US and Canada. But you shouldnt expect to shuttle round the world every week like a MI6 agent - that costs money and in these days of declining budget, no finance company spends money without a good reason.
did the test last week (friday), and they offered me today (tues) which is quite fast. i think they do need ppl urgently now.
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