MBA(priv uni)+Engineering(NUS) can do what niche job?Who will employ?

Also, why are you even afraid of competition from foreigners? Most of the foreigners here are only stealing jobs away from those with low qualifications (those with a diploma or less). There are few foreign talents here because Singapore is definitely not a genuine talent's first choice. If you've worked for ~5 years, you should have known this.

[wahkao]

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Are you for real? 5-6 years work experience still talk until so naive like a fresh grad? No wonder everyone just assume you freshie... Some more try and act beng by spewing vulgarities, really childish man.

Haha good luck on your journey to upgrade from chao engineer to corporate strategist, I'm sure lots of niche companies are desperate to tap your power up private masters degree.

this is the internet, i dont have to talk so formally mah

thanks for your good luck. Besides the ones I listed, what else can I niche?

[wahkao]

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Also, why are you even afraid of competition from foreigners? Most of the foreigners here are only stealing jobs away from those with low qualifications (those with a diploma or less). There are few foreign talents here because Singapore is definitely not a genuine talent's first choice. If you've worked for ~5 years, you should have known this.

I am not afraid. I am looking for a strategy to niche myself. the more I can find that niche, the better.

It doesnt matter whether there are competition or not. Anything that has no competition will eventually have competition in the long run. It is important to build that barrier to entry early on in anticipation of future competition. This is marketing strategy too. I need to apply marketing strategy to career

Quite surprise TS is already quite old with many years work experience still have very simplistic view like a poly student.

Keep throw the word niche maciam like lottery ticket. Niche here niche there niche everywhere, but don't even know what he want or what skill he can use to complement. Full of big words no substance.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Quite surprise TS is already quite old with many years work experience still have very simplistic view like a poly student.

Keep throw the word niche maciam like lottery ticket. Niche here niche there niche everywhere, but don't even know what he want or what skill he can use to complement. Full of big words no substance.

a deluded guy who paid for master certs from a pte uni that is full of himself. if he really that good to do all those high level strategic work, headhunter already call him non-stop, where got stuck so many years stuck in engineer and come here post crackpot theory

Another day dreamer. Most pte unis MBA are a joke anyway.

[wahkao]

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Haha good luck on your journey to upgrade from chao engineer to corporate strategist, I'm sure lots of niche companies are desperate to tap your power up private masters degree.

ok what, corporate strategy in engineering firms quite easy mah
I dont need take MBA I also know how to do. Seen those corporate strategy managers do before.
become powerpoint warrior and do all this:
- general comments about product line, which product doing well. Which doing badly
- plan 3-5year P&L
- score card, dig out the information from sales bookings, order bookings, calculate CAGR
- comments on P&L vs year-1
- forecast YTD using regression
- look at other measurable like AR, customer satisfaction, employee survey
- share business success stories and the insights gained from those success
- failure stories and the insights gained from those failure
- monitoring of existing initiatives
- cut and paste and compare P&L from other business units

Feels like a piece of cake. pretty administrative kind of work if you ask me

Originally Posted by wahkao

ok what, corporate strategy in engineering firms quite easy mah
I dont need take MBA I also know how to do. Seen those corporate strategy managers do before.
become powerpoint warrior and do all this:
- general comments about product line, which product doing well. Which doing badly
- plan 3-5year P&L
- score card, dig out the information from sales bookings, order bookings, calculate CAGR
- comments on P&L vs year-1
- forecast YTD using regression
- look at other measurable like AR, customer satisfaction, employee survey
- share business success stories and the insights gained from those success
- failure stories and the insights gained from those failure
- monitoring of existing initiatives
- cut and paste and compare P&L from other business units

Feels like a piece of cake. pretty administrative kind of work if you ask me

Then I think those strategy managers in your company ain't the real deal. Those are more like work which they delegate down to junior officers to do. When you're talking about real strategy manager, you're looking at someone who can engage stakeholders, plan 5 - 10 years masterplan, find the next area of focus, bring out innovative solutions, extensive research using past records and benchmarks to forecast P&L, able to use financial model for that, engage the entire organisation, use of TQM or Performance Management Tool that doesn't just look at P&L, and extensive networks within the industry etc.

All these require extensive experience of probably 10 years doing strategic management and performance, while taking up graduate diplomas and degrees (e.g. MBA) to strengthen your foundation and concept. Experience is all about executing, and it is only through experience that you know what works and what not.

So ya, it is not that easy as what you think. Like the Chinese proverb "on stage 1 minute, but preparation work 10 years".

Originally Posted by wahkao

ok what, corporate strategy in engineering firms quite easy mah
I dont need take MBA I also know how to do. Seen those corporate strategy managers do before.
become powerpoint warrior and do all this:
- general comments about product line, which product doing well. Which doing badly
- plan 3-5year P&L
- score card, dig out the information from sales bookings, order bookings, calculate CAGR
- comments on P&L vs year-1
- forecast YTD using regression
- look at other measurable like AR, customer satisfaction, employee survey
- share business success stories and the insights gained from those success
- failure stories and the insights gained from those failure
- monitoring of existing initiatives
- cut and paste and compare P&L from other business units

Feels like a piece of cake. pretty administrative kind of work if you ask me

Sounds more like entry level business analyst work to me. You probably need to tone down on that smug attitude and widen your horizons more if the above is what you meant by doing "corporate strategy" work.

With this kind of misguided understanding, I can now see why for some odd reason you seem to think grabbing some DL degree allows you to "niche" in strategic areas.

[lordlad]

TS, you are throwing terms that you 'learnt' in your MBA all over the place. I know you are a MBA and you feel great...but an MBA in a wrong industry is like assigning a Wintel Expert to work in Google....Google is 100% linux company!

Also, you keep mentioning hitching on the 'niche' market.....do you even know what you want to do and what areas you specialised in the first place. I'll say it's not really in whether is the job or market niche. It's the area of specialisation and expertise you have in your field. Instead of hoping' that you can find that job that pays well, why not build your specialisation with enough value such that the job that pays well will find you instead?

You need really get your working mentality right. Like many other have mentioned, the way you type makes you seems like a young graduate and not someone with 5 to 6 years of working experience (and certainly not someone with a credible MBA).