DSTA (under Mindef)

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Hi everyone,

I am currently offered the position of Procurement Executive. Executive pay is 3.2K a month (I'm a girl). for guys, it'll be 3.5K.

Engineers pay is much higher than Executive's pay. My friend is getting 3.9K for second upper.

I have yet to start work, but my friends who are in DSTA told me increment is about 10% each year, and the bonus depends very much on the economy. They got 2-3 months last year.

Hope it helps!

Hi anyone went for interview for position of procurement executive at dsta? I understand that the interviewee has to do a 20mins essay writing prior to the interview. Anyone care to share what's the essay topic like and what questions they ask during the interview?

TIA

Originally Posted by Unregistered View Post
Hi everyone,

I am currently offered the position of Procurement Executive. Executive pay is 3.2K a month (I'm a girl). for guys, it'll be 3.5K.

Engineers pay is much higher than Executive's pay. My friend is getting 3.9K for second upper.

I have yet to start work, but my friends who are in DSTA told me increment is about 10% each year, and the bonus depends very much on the economy. They got 2-3 months last year.

Hope it helps!



May i check how long does it take for the HR to get back to you after your first interview? I went for the interview 3 weeks ago, no news up till now. Am i out of the game?
Anyway i was told by the HR there is only one interview.

Hey I went for Procurement Exec interview on the 3rd wk of Nov. No news till now too. U got any updates frm hr?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Originally Posted by Unregistered View Post
Hi everyone,

I am currently offered the position of Procurement Executive. Executive pay is 3.2K a month (I'm a girl). for guys, it'll be 3.5K.

Engineers pay is much higher than Executive's pay. My friend is getting 3.9K for second upper.

I have yet to start work, but my friends who are in DSTA told me increment is about 10% each year, and the bonus depends very much on the economy. They got 2-3 months last year.

Hope it helps!



May i check how long does it take for the HR to get back to you after your first interview? I went for the interview 3 weeks ago, no news up till now. Am i out of the game?
Anyway i was told by the HR there is only one interview.

lol you sure dsta got 10% increment per year?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Originally Posted by Unregistered View Post
Hi everyone,

I am currently offered the position of Procurement Executive. Executive pay is 3.2K a month (I'm a girl). for guys, it'll be 3.5K.

Engineers pay is much higher than Executive's pay. My friend is getting 3.9K for second upper.

I have yet to start work, but my friends who are in DSTA told me increment is about 10% each year, and the bonus depends very much on the economy. They got 2-3 months last year.

Hope it helps!



May i check how long does it take for the HR to get back to you after your first interview? I went for the interview 3 weeks ago, no news up till now. Am i out of the game?
Anyway i was told by the HR there is only one interview.

gal 3.2k, guy 3.5k. For 2nd upper or first class? I know ministry/stat board every jump in hons class in +200. 3.5k for fresh grad exec kinda decent. Does the bonus follows that of civil servants? Or DSTA has its own discretion on bonus payout? Anyway, I do know of a friend who left DSTA procurement after 2 years realizing that there is very little transferable skills to gain from the job scope. Was told that many left after 2 years also.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

lol you sure dsta got 10% increment per year?

Yep, over a few years, it'll average out to that.
That was pretty much the case when I was there many years ago.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

monthly salary around 4k x (12months + 1 months aws + 3 months performance bonus) = 64k

not forgetting quarterly Market Adjustment Component for salary to be matched competitively to the market. the adjustment will never be negative, either 0% or increase.

quarterly Market Adjustment Component(MAC) for salary to be matched competitively to the market.

got such thing one ah??normally how much is the MAC, how often is the MAC more than 0%

LEt say an engineer getting $4000 in Jan 2013,

MAC in Apr13 = 1% = $4040
MAC in Jul13 + AI(Annual increment) in jul13= 1.5% MAC + 5% AI = $4302
MAC in Oct13 = 1% = $4345
MAC in Jan14 = 1% = $4388

Mean in a span of 1 yr from Jan2013 to Jan 2014, his salary increase from 4000 to 4388, mean ~9.7% increment in total in a year!!!

Am I correct from the above example??

Originally Posted by Unregistered

let say someone with 2nd lower with NS join DSTA as an engineer,

assume he is average performer, or C grader constantly for all 5 years, and with all annual increments & all quarterly Market Adjustment Component + 1 promotion,

what will be his salary after 5 years?





Please advise

I didn't know DSTA hires 2nd lower these days.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

I didn't know DSTA hires 2nd lower these days.

Yes they do.

how much will be the annual salary of engineer start working from fresh grad (With NS 2nd lower/upper) after 6 years in DSTA, assuming he is average performer.

What will be the annual salary range?

60k - 70k
70k - 80k
80k - 90k
more than 90k

which one?