Advice needed!
 

Hi all, I have a huge dilemma.

I am a fresh grad with 1 year of working exp prior to taking my uni degree at SIT (offshore eng). Grad last year now looking for job.

Currently have an offer with a oil and gas firm (pos: ops asst) and feel that 2.3k + allowance 350 is too little for a fresh grad..

Please advice... Thanks.. Was thinking of passing up this job opportunity..

Thanks for reading.. Any advice will be appreciated..

Hi all , would appreciate any advice dished out to me.... FYI this is a Mnc subs..

What are your other options?

It does sound a little low for an engineering role. Is this the first firm offer you have received? Do you have anything else in the pipeline?

Hi , it's not a engineering role per se, more like a trading Ops executive assistant..

At the moment I do not have any other offers as I have only interviewed for 3 jobs and out of these, I have only managed to proceed to the final' interview (1st interview and 2nd time went back for a written test) for this current job offer ..

As I have a engineering deg and this role is more of operations(office based). On 1 hand I feel that it will be a good experience exposure but on the other hand I was thinking that the pay wise is too little..

TBH, it sounds like a diploma role. And it doesn't seem to utilize your engineering degree at all. What industry are you looking at?

Ops assistant is a dead end job. Just clear paperwork for the traders and portfolio managers. It sounds abit low for ops even. Big banks pay their ops around 3-3.5k for fresh grad.

Thanks for your advice. Im actually looking at the oil and gas industry.. In fact, I don't really bank on finding any engineering jobs.

Hi, the HR justify with the pay offer seeing that I don't have the relevant experiences in their opinion and that the first few months will be a training phase and I would not be able to handle the scope independently..

However, I was told by my recruitment (yes I found the job through a search portal) that I can try to negotiate for pay increase upon confirmation if my performances are good etc...

Yes I do agree paywise is a little too low, as I was already receiving 2.2k in 2012 as a dip grad.

If you are not looking out for engineering roles, and will be looking at administrative/back end roles, u might as well try the BO roles in the finance industry. The starting pay will be 2.7k to 3k and job scope is definitely similar.

Don't listen to the bs that you can nego for pay increment upon good performance confirmation etc. It's total BS and please don't believe this for a second.