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Old 05-02-2012, 05:27 PM
jellyO
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Working in a MNC is definitely not a must. Salary wise, i am sure there are SME that can afford to match the pay of MNC or sometimes even higher. Job scope wise, SME might actually expose you to more functions of a business due to more multitasking, one man show type of situation.

However I think the biggest advantage a MNC have over a SME is the brand name. Having that brand name on your resume does help in a way or another.
Nah, while there may be some niche jobs out there where people get paid higher in smaller firms (e.g. boutique consultancy), for most of the jobs out there, MNCs pay at least 30% premium compared to SME. Benefits are also much better than small companies.

The myth that SME give you more "exposure" because you multi-task is just a common trick small time businessman use to con their workers into staying with them. Basically the logic is easy, SMEs are trying to cut whatever cost they can find, so will usually end up asking you to do lots of unrelated crap work which they justify as exposure or development. It's just a way of paying cheaply 1 person to do 3 person work.

SME practices are also laughably unsophisticated and "listen to what big boss say" kind, that is why they can afford to get 1 guy to multi-task unrelated stuff. The work is relatively simple and unstrategic and mostly is just doing whatever is the whim and fancy of big boss.

MNCs can't really do that as their stakeholder relationships are complex, policies have to be adhered to prevent abuse and the level of business case modelling and analyses is more rigorous than SME.

I was in supply chain in a SME for 13 years and when I went into a big MNC, it was a struggle to adapt and luckily after a year of hard work things have taken off. I have upgraded myself much more professionally over the past 2 years as a buying specialist than I had in wasting my time "multi-tasking" for 13+ years in the SME.
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