Originally posted by fymk:
[b]It ain't rosy for you when you quote your pay too high.
I would just go in and get the relevant experience and move out for
a higher paying job. Singapore - you don't and can't expect much.
You are just a fresh graduate. They have to train you.
If you said you have 5 years of experience, then I would think
differently of your situation.
Do you know what a nurse in my
time (6 years back) with a degree was paid in Singapore? The
salary was just slightly more than half of what you put down.
Don't like the pay? Move out of your comfort zone , get out of
Singapore and go compete on the world market. Unless you are some
outstanding graduate , you will find that the same thing will still
happen.
From my experience in a health data analyst role which pays around
6k per month, even in Australia, we have fresh graduates strutting
in expecting to get a higher pay than the rest of us who are more
qualified and experienced - they will learn it damn fast that with
higher pay comes higher responsibility and with higher
responsibility means you are first on the firing line or the
reprimand list if something f**ks up even though it is not your
fault. You don't have the practical experience to solve the
problems that comes up . Textbook university experience does not
count.
Get your experience and practical skill in the workplace first
before you start negotiating for higher amounts. Trust me , once
you hone on your skills and they are in demand, you can start
negotiating for alot more or other employers will offer you more
than what your current employer will offer. I know because this is
my experience now. I started in a new career path with a very low
pay a year ago (took a 1.3k paycut per month ) - got my skills and
used the old skills in nursing, learnt through mistakes and improve
my skills. A few months back I started a bidding war between 2
sections of my employing organisation - I moved to the highest
bidder. Now I am moving again because another employer offered to
take me in with a better offer and a scholarship. Mind you , I had
3 offers - all external bidding and all willing to up the other
until the limit is reached.
So moral of the story : just get the experience. Don't call it
cheap labour. Once your skills are good and in demand - you can
move anywhere.[/b]
Icic. thanks for your candid assessment. Hmm, and yup, i didnt
really get a fantatstic degree grade; cant even qualify as
outstanding and sure as hell, i wun be able to move out of comfort
zone bah.
I understand your point about the need for fresh grads to acquire
the experience and doing so at a low pay until they are good enough
to move on. Hmm it just irks me that considering inflation in SG is
gg at 2% per annum per year; and i recall during the times when i
was in Secondary 4, I heard the PM then (which was in 1997), that a
uni grad can at most earn 2.5K. But its been like a decade now,
(2007), and we still have companies offering 2.1K or below 2.5K per
say? Thats like really sleazy for some companies to quote such a
price?
