Lol forgive the fresh grad for his ignorance la. GEO, whether is elite or not depends on opinion. But it's considered a specialist scheme nevertheless...

Fresh grad: What this person is trying to say is that MOE HR falls under the generic MX scheme, not GEO. Only teachers are in the GEO scheme. So if you want to compare DXO, you need to compare with MX, not GEO. MX pays lesser than DXO, but DXO is more restrictive. You can move from MOE to MOM to MHA to whatever ministry as an MX. But as a DXO, you cannot, even if you are doing the same thing in another ministry i.e. HR in MINDEF is under DXO, but if move to MOE to do HR, you are now under MX so you have to resign from DXO to join MX. But if you move from MOE HR to MOM HR, you are still under MX so it's just a transfer of service and you get to keep all the benefits.