Hi all,
My sister who will graduate soon plans to go to work in Singapore. Can anyone tell me if the economy situation is really bad in Singapore?

A friend sent me this site and it sounds pretty scary in Singapore too..
http://goreng-sotong.blogspot.com

The impact still not that hard yet, next year the impact will be stronger.

I can only see most of the corporate cutting cost, stop this expenses that expenses. Bigger company retrenched to lower down their cost, etc.....

Job vacancy are much lesser compare to last 2 years.... That 2 years till now is the best opportunity to find work.

No worries, just come to Singapore and look for job. My company looking for graphic&web designer.

Even not PR can entitle for 13 month salary, 13 month is common practice in Singapore but not a must. But so far all my fren i know entitle 13 months no matter they are PR or not.

@Joshua, nicvoo

Thanks for the information, but instead of money conversion issues, I still have some personal issues to be considered. Anyway, thank you so much for being so helpful.

@Sukhoi37

I do understand how people feel when they encounter stupid questions that were repeated over hundred times in the past, but some how the answers will not be always the same, especially after the economical disaster recently. I heard that lots of companies are scaling down, so I worried that may be these companies may not be interested in fresh grads in this period. That's why I would rather get some more recent needs of ICT fresh grads.

Cheers.

ah, suddenly feel like miss the bak kut teh in KL so much. any1 know any good 1 in SG ?

The company i currently working in no need to worry about retrenchment coz just recently i heard a few guys from one department are resigning.

I've heard that this department has the habit of domino resigning (If one fella go, expect the rest to follow like sheep) and the unfortunate thing is i'm in but only just to learn new skills coz my primary function is as an IT facilitator. Donno why in singapore, especially for marine industry, those workers who come from india, when they leave a company, the rest in the company will follow suite. Rather depressing really.

Unfortunately there's no good BKT in Singapore.. I've been looking for it since a long ago.. haha

BKT is something really lacking in SG. Also good roti canai.. hahaha

hehe i found one near bugis
hav msian taste but of coz still not good as msia wanna hav a try??
eheheh stall name is leong kee
my place here hav chick rice, braised duck rice which is good

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Added on November 7, 2008, 1:37 pmunderstand how u feel i was in that kind of situation b4 well i also followed n resigned haha after i found abterr offer tat is haha
but the current situation now is not adviseable to start hopping especially if ur industry depends on finance banking n semicon


This post has been edited by nicvoo: Nov 7 2008, 01:37 PM

Mine is marine inspection dealing with oil and gas industry.

well marine & O&G shouldn't b tat badly affected if u can find another lobang then join the club hahaha
else stick around tat mayb a chance for u to learn n improve yourself. anyway imo if the place u r working hav good senior who guides u n u laern alot no point changing jobs unless its an offer u cant resist say a 50% increment or sumthing similiar

Actually i want 2 stick around so that i can learn new things in the marine industry but most of the time the seniors who are indian nationals dont seem to be so keen to teach new skills, even when i'm on the job together with them. I also cant just simply change since the field i'm in is totally new to me and who would want 2 hire a freshie who has no prior exp in this field of work.

So far my boss has said that he would send me on some courses relating to marine inspection field but thats only next year. One training course i do have is the ISO certified internal auditor course which i've completed but its just an add-on and nothing related to marine engineering.

What worrying is that quite a number of seniors are leaving about 2/3 of the department. If thats the case who am i going to learn from anyway?

This post has been edited by crapp0: Nov 7 2008, 02:01 PM

well the roti canai (they called it prata ) of Ah Mei Cafe not bad actually.


w00t near bugis junction ? gonna look out for it.

so i take tat ur comp 50% r foreigners especially india n china?
well i hav a fren who works about same field as u o&g servicing line on jurong island half of his colleagues r from india
he's having a hard time communicating and working together but he cant leave coz got contract haha

my advise is stay till after cny as tats the time u hav ur bonus after tat look for a job the situation might change n not really a long period coming to year end dy


ermm... no u know whr park royal hotel is?
its opposite it


sg hav yet to hav good and affordable roti aka prata

parkroyal beach rd ? ya i know where it is. tq for the info.

yupz correct u jus walk the road opposite of park royal along the main road
its at one of the corner junctions
its not excatly opposite park royal
yellow sign board red words leong kee
recently saw it on tv on makan lost n found tv program iirc

further down a bit the duck rice also good but a bit on the pricy side

then golden mile hawker center the ground floor got a claypot chick rice ok lo special still not as good as msia but still ediable
upper floor got a stall sell chilli noodle n prawn mee ppl say nice i say ma ma dei lo
another stall sell char kuey tiao featured on tv alot of ppl line up to me not nice hahha

opposite the hawker center beside golden mile complex the building 4got wat name basement got a shop sell hainan chick rice n steam boat very nice the soup pure chick soup no msg

Nearly close to 50% percent is from india, no china fella btw.

So hard communicating with them isnt so bad. But i'm not to keen on leaving so soon since i only worked there for 9 months and if i not mistaken if you leave too early, then mom will black list you or something to that effect.

I only leave if i am confident that i have the necessary skills and certs to get a better position or job, but unfortunately i'm a freshie in this field. My pay aint so bad and work environment isnt that bad either, its just that training is the main issue i'm worried about and career advancement.

Also sometimes it gets quite boring since now not so many jobs so spend time at office where i can catch up on my reading and test new and learn new stuff on IT. But after awhile it gets boring since it get recurring. Hopefully i can get more on-job training since my company got a tender from SRC for 3 years contract.

This post has been edited by crapp0: Nov 7 2008, 02:46 PM

lol the mom thingy where u heard from?
i came sg almost 1.5y
1st job 4month 2nd job 1y now 3rd job 3m++ haha mom black list wat???

My dad mention about it since he worked in singapore b4. U keep on job hopping that means u not on contract izit?

Are you in sales since you can job hop so often? No need job commitment.

This post has been edited by crapp0: Nov 7 2008, 02:53 PM

nope no contract i dun like to be binded

lol ur dad tat time when?
now already quite new age dy leh
lol
no offence

the job market now has change damn lot last time employers xpect u to beloyal to the comp
now? its the employees who choose the job

but still it might be jus me. 1st job chinaman comp no diff i work in msia
2nd job mnc comp but the ppl in there dunno wat they r doin dun c any future there
currenct comp not bad enjoyin the job and learning alot.

sometimes u need to knock on a few doors b4 u can find the right one

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Added on November 7, 2008, 2:55 pmnope not in sales in construction

This post has been edited by nicvoo: Nov 7 2008, 02:55 PM

Oh, so you are a civil engineer? Quite free eh you can surf at lowyat. Not on site most of the time or are you a pen pusher?

Yeah i think quite some time my dad worked in singapore. But then again it gives a bad impression on oneself since you cant land a stable job and continuously finding another company.

I know a HRD fella who is wary when she sees a resume full of companies since job hopping and not retaining a job for at least a year is fishy to her. Like she said "Something lit up that fella's arse to be moving here and there". But my current company got some old timers, 10 years and counting. Maybe they got kids so need stability, i usually start finding a new job after the 2nd year if things are ok.

This post has been edited by crapp0: Nov 7 2008, 03:04 PM