When I was at school, local JCs and secondary schools were notoriously bad at providing career guidance. Poly and university courses were pretty much...

Retail businesses have had it bad in Singapore. Once-bustling malls now look like Lim Chu Kang on a Saturday night, and many once-ubiquitous retailers...

When you have a friend who doesn’t know the difference between company stock and chicken stock, beware when he proudly announces he’s just bought some...

One of Singapore’s biggest claims to fame has been the fact that, well, the country’s pretty wealthy. On the surface, it looks like everyone’s either...

There are many Singaporeans who rarely see the sun. No, they’re not all vampires or working the graveyard shift. These are many people who start work...

Job interviews are pretty awkward. You show up all dressed up in that suit you only wear to wedding dinners, ready to impress, and your potential empl...

Ask anyone from Hong Kong, Mainland China or India what they think of Singaporeans, and you’ll often hear the words “gullible” or “naive”. These peopl...

Tell a Singaporean to DIY something—cook his own meals, change his car’s engine oil, or even walk down to the McDonald’s outlet and buy his own meal,...

When you’re a rookie just starting out on the corporate ladder, you’re hungry for experience—any kind of experience that will pull you up a rung or tw...

When you got your first “grown-up” job, the way to career success seemed like a straight, uncomplicated path, just like a bowling lane. So long as you...