Career

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5 Tips for Young Singaporeans Who Have No Idea What They Want Out of Their Career
The face-off between baby boomers and millennials rages on at the workplace. The former continue to be ...
1 November 2017
5 Things Not to Say at a Job Interview in Singapore
5 Things Not to Say at a Job Interview in Singapore
The job market isn’t looking so hot this year. Even if you waltz into a job interview looking like a supermodel ...
31 October 2017
5 Things Singaporean Workers Can Anticipate in the Future
5 Things Singaporean Workers Can Anticipate in the Future
The options facing young workers in Singapore today are vastly different from what their parents had to ...
23 October 2017
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3 Things That Could Push Companies to Hire Older PMETs and Not Just Fresh Grads or Foreigners
Singapore’s dog-eat-dog work environment brings to mind young office workers on the brink of burn-out, ...
19 October 2017
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5 Ways Singapore Companies Should Embrace Flexi-Work
As you stuff yourself into an overcrowded MRT carriage at 8:15am, bursting at the seams with people all ...
17 October 2017
Two New Visas That Make it Easier for Singaporeans to Chase the Australian Dream
Two New Visas That Make it Easier for Singaporeans to Chase the Australian Dream
Walk down any street in Melbourne, Sydney or Perth, and you might not only hear that familiar Singaporean ...
16 October 2017
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Graduating from Polytechnic or ITE? Here’s How You Can Kickstart Your Career
Ask young Singaporeans about their career aspirations and you might come across this answer pretty often: ...
6 October 2017
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Negotiating Your Salary – 6 Mistakes Singaporeans Should Avoid
The biggest mistake you can make is to avoid negotiating your salary at all. Yes, I know we’ve been raised ...
5 October 2017
5 Shocking Lessons You’ll Learn During Your First 2 Years of Work
5 Shocking Lessons You’ll Learn During Your First 2 Years of Work
It’s been almost 3 years since I graduated as a marketing major. Not counting my internships and the miscellaneous ...
25 September 2017
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5 Ways to Instantly Make Your Resume Look More Impressive
Sending out your resume and begging someone to hire you is a bit like entering the Miss Singapore competition. ...
20 September 2017
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4 Reasons Singapore Should Embrace the Gig Economy
Every time you read about the gig economy in the local news, you get the feeling that freelancers and gig ...
18 September 2017
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5 Ways to Deal if Your Corporate Job is Making You Dead Inside
Have you ever felt like a robot? Every day, you squeeze onto the MRT, then do the death march to your office ...
14 September 2017
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Why It’s Meaningless to Ask How Much a Freelancer Earns
Every so often, somebody asks me how much I earn each month as a freelancer. Other than the fact that that ...
11 September 2017
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5 Ways Your Relationship Could Be Negatively Affecting Your Career
Finding someone who’s willing to date you when you’re pulling 12 hour days at the office is hard enough. ...
7 August 2017
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4 Tiny Tips to Make Working as a Freelancer Work For You
As they say, you choose your battles in life. What we do for a living and how we do it is no different. ...
4 August 2017
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5 Ways Singapore Employers Can Encourage Their Employees to Take Pride in Their Work
Singapore employees have been getting a lot of flak recently, ever since Michelle Chong published a Facebook ...
3 August 2017
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5 Reasons to Quit Your Job Even Though You Like It
Do you actually like your job? Yes? Then congratulations, that puts you ahead of the majority of Singaporeans ...
2 August 2017
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4 Ways Singapore Employers Can Make Their Employees Work More Productively
Every so often, Singapore comes up tops in a survey that we’re really not proud of. Whether it be our long ...
31 July 2017
5 Reasons You Haven’t Quit That Job That’s Not Right For You
5 Reasons You Haven’t Quit That Job That’s Not Right For You
You’ve known for some time that you should leave your job. You’re being underpaid, your boss is a douchebag, ...
26 July 2017
Are You Good at Your Job? Here are 4 More Things You Need to Do to Succeed at Work
Are You Good at Your Job? Here are 4 More Things You Need to Do to Succeed at Work
Assuming your job is the main way you make money, being good at it is pretty important. If you suck, unless ...
24 July 2017
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4 Survival Tips for Singaporeans Working the Night Shift
You don’t have to be a vampire to never see the sun. To the thousands of Singaporeans who work the night ...
21 July 2017
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Here’s How Freelancers Should Be Managing Their Work Cashflow
Throughout my entire first year as a full-time freelancer, I had no idea how much money I was making. Once, ...
20 July 2017
4 Things Freelancers Can Do to Be Happier People
4 Things Freelancers Can Do to Be Happier People
So you’re a freelancer who’s happily self-employed, earning a decent income while enjoying the flexibility ...
19 July 2017
5 Ways New Grads Can Score Brownie Points With Potential Employers
5 Ways New Grads Can Score Brownie Points With Potential Employers
It’s not the best of times to be a fresh grad. Not only has the class of 2017 graduated in a very challenging ...
17 July 2017
6 People Fresh Grads Can Use as Professional References
6 People Fresh Grads Can Use as Professional References
It’s bad enough that companies only want to employ people with prior experience, even for entry-level jobs. ...
10 July 2017