Career

Don’t Quit Your Job to Chase Your Dreams Until You’ve Considered These 4 Things
Don’t Quit Your Job to Chase Your Dreams Until You’ve Considered These 4 Things
Feel like a corporate drone? Fit the profile of what they call a “millennial”? Then you must have at some ...
31 March 2017
4 High-Paying Jobs That Don’t Require Degrees
4 High-Paying Jobs That Don’t Require Degrees
There’s a reason Singaporean kids wear such thick glasses and are more likely to be seen labouring over ...
30 March 2017
4 Phrases To Use At Work That Don’t Sound Like Excuses
4 Phrases To Use At Work That Don’t Sound Like Excuses
Dealing with everyone at the office pining for your attention takes up the bulk of your waking life, and ...
24 March 2017
4 Hacks to Improve Your Work Life Balance When You’re Expected to Spend Long Hours at the Office
4 Hacks to Improve Your Work Life Balance When You’re Expected to Spend Long Hours at the Office
Work-life balance doesn’t exist in Singapore. If some bosses had their way, you wouldn’t even have a life ...
22 March 2017
Why Having More Women in the Workforce Doesn’t Automatically Mean There’s More Equality
Why Having More Women in the Workforce Doesn’t Automatically Mean There’s More Equality
According to many Singaporean men, local women have been dealt a good hand of cards because they don’t ...
21 March 2017
5 Signs it’s Time to Quit Your Job This Year
5 Signs it’s Time to Quit Your Job This Year
Have you complained about your job today? If you haven’t, you must still be sitting for the O levels. Work-related ...
20 March 2017
Is that Coworking Space Subscription Really Worth It for You as a Freelancer?
Is that Coworking Space Subscription Really Worth It for You as a Freelancer?
There comes a time in a freelancer’s life when, after four days of remaining in pyjamas and not moving ...
15 March 2017
Here Are The Skills Singaporeans Need to Be Upgrading Based on Budget 2017
Here Are The Skills Singaporeans Need to Be Upgrading Based on Budget 2017
Many people have no clue how to use their SkillsFuture credits or can’t find anything useful that they ...
13 March 2017
4 Tips for Negotiating for a Higher Salary
4 Tips for Negotiating for a Higher Salary
The standard Singaporean response to being paid less than they think they’re worth is to quietly pack up ...
3 March 2017
3 Uncomfortable Truths All Freelancers Must Face
3 Uncomfortable Truths All Freelancers Must Face
Recently, one of my friends was complaining about how he’d been stuck at the office till 11pm. “You, on ...
27 February 2017
3 Ways to Really Future-Proof Your Job
3 Ways to Really Future-Proof Your Job
The future—it’s something that Singaporeans are constantly worrying about. When parents enrol their kids ...
20 February 2017
Are you Dying of Career Boredom? Try These 4 Things Before Changing Jobs
Are you Dying of Career Boredom? Try These 4 Things Before Changing Jobs
The most mind-crushing boredom I’ve ever experienced was as a student in primary and secondary school. ...
16 February 2017
5 Stupid Things Singaporeans Are Doing in the Current Job Market
5 Stupid Things Singaporeans Are Doing in the Current Job Market
You already knew the economy was in trouble. But here are some cold, hard figures to back it up—In 2016, ...
14 February 2017
Bloomberg Says You Can Find a Job in 8 Weeks in Singapore – Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Feel Too Happy
Bloomberg Says You Can Find a Job in 8 Weeks in Singapore – Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Feel Too Happy
Recently, Bloomberg published this report with a very utopian-sounding headline–“It takes just 8 weeks ...
3 February 2017
4 Things You Must Do Before Commencing Your Job Search
4 Things You Must Do Before Commencing Your Job Search
There comes a point in almost every Singaporean’s career when, after yet another all-nighter at the office/getting ...
1 February 2017
4 Reasons You Should Change Jobs Other Than a Better Salary
4 Reasons You Should Change Jobs Other Than a Better Salary
Singaporean employees have the bad reputation of being job hoppers who’ll jump ship as soon as someone ...
31 January 2017
Here’s How Singaporeans Make Themselves Look Bad at a Job Interview
Here’s How Singaporeans Make Themselves Look Bad at a Job Interview
You don’t need need to be Brad Pitt or Angelina Jolie to impress somebody at a job interview. On a Tinder ...
17 January 2017
3 Tips for Freelance Tutors Who Don’t Want to Get Ripped Off by Agencies and Clients
3 Tips for Freelance Tutors Who Don’t Want to Get Ripped Off by Agencies and Clients
We’ve all heard of those superstar tutors who earn over a million bucks a month. But not all tutors are ...
13 January 2017
When is a Side Job Worth the Time When You Already Have a Day Job?
When is a Side Job Worth the Time When You Already Have a Day Job?
It might make you uncomfortable that your income depends entirely on your boss’s mood, and the day he sends ...
9 January 2017
3 Things Young Singaporeans Who’ve Given Up on Their Job Searches Should Do in the Meantime
3 Things Young Singaporeans Who’ve Given Up on Their Job Searches Should Do in the Meantime
It’s not been an easy year for the class of 2016. Hiring has slowed this year and entry-level jobs are ...
6 January 2017
6 Fashion Faux Pas You Should Avoid at That Job Interview
6 Fashion Faux Pas You Should Avoid at That Job Interview
Not everybody needs to show up to a job interview in a G2000 suit. Okay fine, if your job interview takes ...
5 January 2017
3 Budgeting Tips for Singaporeans Who Aren’t Earning a Steady Paycheck
3 Budgeting Tips for Singaporeans Who Aren’t Earning a Steady Paycheck
The life of a freelancer is distinctly different from those of his office-going, salary-earning peers.
3 January 2017
3 Ways Perfectly Competent Singaporean Employees Sabotage Their Careers
3 Ways Perfectly Competent Singaporean Employees Sabotage Their Careers
That colleague of yours who’s so spectacularly incompetent that even the interns make him look stupid? ...
29 December 2016
5 Biggest Reasons Hiring Managers Have Rejected Your Resume
5 Biggest Reasons Hiring Managers Have Rejected Your Resume
’Member those days when you could hop to a new job every 6 months and people would still scramble to hire ...
27 December 2016
Why are Young Singaporeans Giving Up on Looking for Jobs, and is that Necessarily a Bad Thing?
Why are Young Singaporeans Giving Up on Looking for Jobs, and is that Necessarily a Bad Thing?
It’s not the best time to be a fresh grad in Singapore. Amidst depressing news that fresh grads are entering ...
19 December 2016