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dear all, I've been working in the private sector for five years. if offered an assistant director post in MAS, what kind of payscale should I be expecting?

any kind soul here working in MAS can enlighten me? Thanks a lot!

Hi,

Can someone tell me is civil servant able to work from home ?
My friend in MOM able to work from home at least once a week and she can go shopping with me. But someone in this forum told me working MOM ministry is not relax. Is it only higher rank then has this work from home priviledges ?

[rollbread]

Originally Posted by Unregistered

If u work in a polytechnic do u get the govt bonus mid payout, yr end also? Mine say dont have is it true?

Did u apply the job through poly website or through the "career@gov" website? Since poly post job openings on the career@gov website, so it should mean that they follow the ministry and stat board too.

Unless the position is hired by the 3rd party. I once applied to RP and offered the job, but in the end was told that RP has outsourced the work to a 3rd party so we will be hired by the 3rd party rather than RP itself. But I still reject it after that.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Hi,

Can someone tell me is civil servant able to work from home ?
My friend in MOM able to work from home at least once a week and she can go shopping with me. But someone in this forum told me working MOM ministry is not relax. Is it only higher rank then has this work from home priviledges ?

Depends. Its either very high ranked or very low ranked. MOM does a huge census survey each year. So they do employ lots of people to carry out the administrative duties and the survey taking as well. So these are very very low ranked people, literal survey monkeys, and because the surveys are done based on quota, one can actually free up a day of work if he/she completes the weekly quota of surveys in 4 days.

MOM is not relaxed. But as a ministry, I think its one of the slowest IMO. And the dept heads don't have their supervisors in their office with them. Meaning they can simply leave office early and no one can stop them. I've seen this happen before first-hand. I initially thought my dept head had some meetings to go to, but in fact she headed home and openly said it, happened more than once, but I was just a temp survey monkey. That's the problem with ministries. So far I've seen this happen in Mindef and MOM. Due to the fact that departments work in silos and the dept head is the 'biggest' person in the office, there are no checks on him/her. That's where your taxpayer's money are going to btw, lazy civil servants.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Hi,

Can someone tell me is civil servant able to work from home ?
My friend in MOM able to work from home at least once a week and she can go shopping with me. But someone in this forum told me working MOM ministry is not relax. Is it only higher rank then has this work from home priviledges ?

ever since the govt started targeting govt offices to move out of the city area (cbd), at least for my case, alot of our depts got separated and thrown into different areas all around Singapore. So like the MOM example quoted earlier, it is actually quite common that your own dept head or boss could be located somewhere else far away from you and they don't really have direct contorl over your movement everyday.

Whether its slack or not, at the end of the day you're the one answering for the work you put in. The system is slowly changing and automatic promotions no longer happen anymore.

Originally Posted by rollbread

I'm not sure about others, but for the stat board I'm in does offer grades and salary according to experience.

When i just join, I saw a lady applied same job position and because of her past experience and was offered the senior position. Before that she was from a private company.

I am in the same situation as the lady and is waiting for interview call. How long did they took to call you for an interview?

[rollbread]

Originally Posted by Unregistered

I am in the same situation as the lady and is waiting for interview call. How long did they took to call you for an interview?

I guess around 1 month plus...after interview it took almost another 1 month to inform that I am offered the position. In the career@gov website, till now it only show "Submitted", it didn't show other status for my case.

Originally Posted by rollbread

I guess around 1 month plus...after interview it took almost another 1 month to inform that I am offered the position. In the career@gov website, till now it only show "Submitted", it didn't show other status for my case.

I understand this is a norm for some stat board not to update the status on the portal. But 2 months for the whole process? So much for productivity.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Here's the MX pay ranges again for all our reference:

2011 Civil Service Salary Range

Job grade: MX9 (Superscale)
Job title: Deputy Director, Director
Pay scale: S$10,580 – S$14,550 / S$14,551 – S$16,540

Job grade: MX10
Job title: Assistant Director, Deputy Director
Pay scale: S$6,350 – S$9,050 / S$9,051 – S$10,400

Job grade: MX11
Job title: Manager, Assistant Director
Pay scale: S$4,100 – S$6,160 / S$6,161 – S$7,190

Job grade: MX12
Job title: Assistant Manager, Manager
Pay scale: S$2,550 – S$5,130

Job grade: MX13
Job title: Management Executive
Pay scale: up to S$2,800 for fresh graduates

Since the 2012 wage adjustment is ~10%, add 10% to the above value.

may i ask where is the slash for? e.g. mx 11 - why not just $4100-$7190? thanks

Originally Posted by rollbread

Did u apply the job through poly website or through the "career@gov" website? Since poly post job openings on the career@gov website, so it should mean that they follow the ministry and stat board too.

Unless the position is hired by the 3rd party. I once applied to RP and offered the job, but in the end was told that RP has outsourced the work to a 3rd party so we will be hired by the 3rd party rather than RP itself. But I still reject it after that.

Mine is directly from poly but the hr tell me project basis contract. If project basis then not following govt bonus scheme is it like that one or they bluff me?