i wanna ask...if bringing duty free liquor out of Sg, will I be taxed? Tried searching the customs website but i cannot find concrete information.

No worries. Just apply those job even stated singaporean or SPR. My job requirement also stated singaporean and have car transport. Me? I am Malaysian and without car transport. Still I got the job due to the skills I have. But many jobs that I applied turned me down, due to the requirement they stated. I have eventually send out my resume to 300+ company.    

PR and Citizen is different. Citizen require you to join NS. Unless your dad from PR change to Citizen. Then you have to go to NS.

Your dad help you to apply PR? Can, no problem, what it will take some time, let's say 3 months? Can you afford for being jobless for 3 months+? Don't forget the period of looking for a job. Economy isn't good now actually, many company trying to cut cost, came out in the newspaper.

Anyway, Good Luck.

hey guys..
i'm interested to work in Singapore as well,
so i've search jobsdb.com and found jobs which related to my field.
So i register myself to jobsdb.com.sg instead.
Prepared the resume and attach it already.
then i've apply for the job so waiting for confirmation..

my question is, is it alrite that i register unter jobsdb (sg) instead of jobsdb (my). By the way, i do not have any passes yet or PR pass.
How long u guys wait for the reply from such job provider ?
Does the company will apply for passes for you if you are hired?

i'm in the field of automation in Semiconductor. How is the automation industry there? I demanded $3500(nego) in my resume, should this be the market price?

Yup, you can do that. But only makes sense if your family income (total of both husband & wife) are below the income ceiling (S$8K) to buy HDB flats.

Good question. I think it's gross, total household income.

And btw, if your gross salary is 10K, the employee CPF is a max of $950/mth CPF. If your gross salary is 100K, you still pay a max of $950/mth.

Dude, i knew that. That's what i reiriterated in my bracket lar.

Im asking, whether isit by law PR must be offered 13 months salary? as opposed to the normaly 12 mths salary. I.e. whether PR really have such a privelage?

As I have mentioned earlier, it is only worth to work in SG if you are offering a pay of at least $3,500 and above.

Otherwise, it totally worthless and pointless in my opinion especially you need to leave your families, love ones, gf/bf, wife/husband etc etc. There are many more things that you need to sacrifice as well. Hence, by earning only $3.5K and above can compensate for all your losses...

like being pointed out quite many times, its all depends on how u spend ur earnings. 

u'll be amazed to know how much 1 of my fren can save up by the salary of 1.8k in 1 year.

Hi guys,

Need some help here. Sorry, I know this topic has been discussed a few months ago, but I'd like to get your opinions on my situation.

Gonna apply for Sg PR, filled in the form aldy and passed it to the HR of my co. to fill in the last part. HR told me tat this has to be discussed among the management coz I'm under 1 yr contract and they have to see if 'they will allow me to apply for PR' (well, not their exact words, but something to this effect. I think they're trying to save their money, coz my co. seem to prefer to take in foreigners rather than locals/PRs).

Anyway, supposing they turn out to be really difficult and refuse to fill in the employer information for me, what should my next course of action be? If they really did that, I think it's very unfair of them, coz one of my colleagues from China, he's also under 1 yr contract and they just filled out the details for his application 2 weeks ago. Dunno if the whole process was difficult for him on his part....maybe he argued back with them on this, i dunno.

Can I still go ahead with my application even if they don't wanna fill in that section for me? I've a Master's degree and been working here in sg for 1 yr. What are my chances if i just proceed without that section being filled in? I've got another 4 more months til my contract ends. Tell you, the boss of this co. super kiasu and chinaman. Even the china ppl can't stand him!

Made my e-appointment for 1st week April btw. All documents covered aldy except this. Oh, that and my recent passport photo.

Thanks a lot....appreciate all the help i can get!

just wanna ask for opinions, I just applied PR mid march. Today I got a job offer with 200 dollars more of my current salary. Should I take up this job and forget about my PR or wait for my PR and then apply for other jobs again?

block 523 is well within 10 min walk to MRT. i stay in 596A which is juz a bit ahead. 

EMmm?!if there is a difference in subsidiary for HDB and hospital etc, then you might think whether want to live in this country for a very long period. if no difference, then I find it no point as we only have a chance to change citizenship in our life. if in later stage u find out AUSSIE country more better, you will not have a chance to do so anymore.