rofl this is so untrue.

my department has 3 managers aged 30-ish. The previous department head was 28. Her boss was 32. So what is this 45-50+ you are talking about?

Hmm, didn't mean to flame.

Branch Manager actually is not that high up also in the banking hierarchy btw. For example, my department has 40-ish people, and the previous head was 28. Her boss (the 32 year old one), was banded (i.e. high rank enough for profit sharing), which is a lot higher than any branch manager.

Maybe it's different in commercial banking, I have no experience there, but from wholesale banking sales and operations, I see a lot of young (late 20's - late 30's) people in very high up positions earning a ton of money. From what I see generally, 30-ish is the average entrance into lower/middle management. I will agree with you that 40++ will probably be the minimum for upper management but really isn't this the same as every other organization? Unless you start your own business, I can't imagine any big company that will promote you to their board before 40 either, no matter how good you are.

(unless you are the son/daughter of the CEO/Chairman, that one doesn't count la)

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Added on April 20, 2008, 4:45 pm[edit]@ slynn >> Intl Graduate program if you can get in is awesome. 2 years, you report more or less directly to the SCB group CIO (who can obviously pull a lot of strings for you), and you get to go all over. My IG friend spends as much time in India, China and Singapore as he does in Malaysia.

This post has been edited by deodorant: Apr 20 2008, 04:45 PM

100% false. Once you get accepted as an International Graduate (IG), you are on par with all other IGs regardless of where you graduated from. It's not an easy program to get into, though.

Having said that my friend graduated from Australia ...

lol, learn2read.