Originally Posted by Unregistered

I have a question - why would someone want to join MINDEF DXO?

I mean for girls, perhaps they've not experienced how the military operates, the initial supposed higher starting pay seems to be attractive. But it's pretty much a dead-end job no? Even backoffice at a bank pays way better and the people here asking are all with second upper and above, surely getting an interview with any BO should be quite straightforward?

Getting a pay of what? 3.6K? That's not a lot. Anyone with a 2nd upper or even lower can probably get a job at the big4 not just an auditor but also consultant where you deal with real work.

Let's do the math, if the MINDEF DXO gives you 5% increment per year

F1 - 3600
F2 - 3780
F3 - 3969
F4 - 4167
F5 - 4375

At the end of 5 years, you don't even hit 5k. Whereas for a big4 employee

A1 - 2900
A2 - 3400
S1 - 4400
S2 - 4900
S3 - 5400

And about job scope? It's a mundane 8 to 5, no stress hardly anything to do - why would any fresh graduate aspire to do that? You studied 16 years to do nothing? It seems like a nice place to retire but to build your careers for starters, are you worried about having no worklife balance and so on?