Henry, if I were you, I would take the orientation trip offer right away. I heard for senior executive positions, it's not an uncommon practice for companies to arrange for this kind of all-expense-paid orientation trip to prospective employees. Maybe as a Singaporean, you feel "pai seh" to accept this trip offer, but come on, you owe it to yourself. This maybe just too good an opportunity to give a miss. Just take a week off, pack your suitcase and see for yourself how life is there. :)
By the way, if I read you corectly, you wrote the offer is about QR 40K (presumably a month). Personally I wouldn't worry about housing at all with that level of income.
Henry, if I were you, I would take the orientation trip offer right away. I heard for senior executive positions, it's not an uncommon practice for companies to arrange for this kind of all-expense-paid orientation trip to prospective employees. Maybe as a Singaporean, you feel "pai seh" to accept this trip offer, but come on, you owe it to yourself. This maybe just too good an opportunity to give a miss. Just take a week off, pack your suitcase and see for yourself how life is there. :)
By the way, if I read you corectly, you wrote the offer is about QR 40K (presumably a month). Personally I wouldn't worry about housing at all with that level of income.