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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
3 Ways Singaporean Companies Can Gamify Work and Stop Their Employees From Being So Damn Unmotivated
3 Ways Singaporean Companies Can Gamify Work and Stop Their Employees From Being So Damn Unmotivated
The promise of a steady paycheck and not being unemployed is no longer enough to motivate millennials to ...
16 December 2016
Here’s How Top-Earning Millennials in Singapore Feel About Work and Money
Here’s How Top-Earning Millennials in Singapore Feel About Work and Money
A lot has been said about millennials in Singapore, mostly in the form of snide remarks from the older ...
13 December 2016
Are You Suffering From Burnout at Work? Here’s What You Can Do
Are You Suffering From Burnout at Work? Here’s What You Can Do
There are lots of things about Singapore that are open to debate—whether our hawker food is really that ...
12 December 2016
If Only Singapore Employers Did These 3 Things, Their Employees Would be More Engaged at Work
If Only Singapore Employers Did These 3 Things, Their Employees Would be More Engaged at Work
Look around your office on a Monday morning, and the first adjective that immediately jumps out at you ...
7 December 2016
4 People Who Are Sneakily Bringing You Down in Your Career
4 People Who Are Sneakily Bringing You Down in Your Career
Everybody wants to meet that mentor who’ll haul them up to the pinnacle of their career. But instead, you ...
2 December 2016
3 Steps To Transform Yourself From That Guy Who Knows Nobody To Someone With Tons of Business Contacts
3 Steps To Transform Yourself From That Guy Who Knows Nobody To Someone With Tons of Business Contacts
We all have that friend who always has the best “lobang”, and who seems to bump into someone he knows every ...
29 November 2016
3 Reasons Singapore Companies Are Still So Reluctant to Offer Formal Flexi-Work Arrangements
3 Reasons Singapore Companies Are Still So Reluctant to Offer Formal Flexi-Work Arrangements
The Baby Bonus isn’t the only cash incentive that doesn’t seem to be working. The government’s Work-Life ...
29 November 2016
4 Super Cheap Ways Anxious Singaporeans Can De-Stress
4 Super Cheap Ways Anxious Singaporeans Can De-Stress
Spend an afternoon at Raffles Place, and you’ll feel the stress practically sticking to you. People run ...
25 November 2016
4 Ways Singaporeans Working Long Hours Can Keep Their Health and Sanity at the Office
4 Ways Singaporeans Working Long Hours Can Keep Their Health and Sanity at the Office
Considering the amount of time Singaporeans spend buying and then renovating their homes, they don’t get ...
21 November 2016
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Can’t Figure Out What to Study at Tertiary Level? Here are 3 Tips to Help You Decide
When I was at school, local JCs and secondary schools were notoriously bad at providing career guidance. ...
15 November 2016
4 Ways to Survive When You Work Long Hours
4 Ways to Survive When You Work Long Hours
There are many Singaporeans who rarely see the sun. No, they’re not all vampires or working the graveyard ...
10 November 2016
3 Awkward Job Applications You Might Have to Make at Least Once in Your Life
3 Awkward Job Applications You Might Have to Make at Least Once in Your Life
Job interviews are pretty awkward. You show up all dressed up in that suit you only wear to wedding dinners, ...
9 November 2016
Applying For a Job You’re Overqualified For? Do These 3 Things to Raise Your Chance of Getting Hired
Applying For a Job You’re Overqualified For? Do These 3 Things to Raise Your Chance of Getting Hired
When you’re a rookie just starting out on the corporate ladder, you’re hungry for experience—any kind of ...
8 November 2016
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5 Jobs That Will Evolve in the Next 10 Years
When you got your first “grown-up” job, the way to career success seemed like a straight, uncomplicated ...
7 November 2016
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4 Easy Ways to Make Some Spare Cash if You Play a Musical Instrument
Your parents put you through years of piano, violin or flute lessons, and now the only thing you can play ...
7 November 2016
4 Things You Must Do on the Last Day of Your Internship
4 Things You Must Do on the Last Day of Your Internship
The school holidays have come and gone, and how did you spend yours? No, you didn’t take off on a backpacking ...
4 November 2016
4 Skills That Will Help You Get Ahead in Any Job
4 Skills That Will Help You Get Ahead in Any Job
So you’ve dutifully spent your $500 SkillsFuture credit on courses that claimed they’d help you upgrade ...
3 November 2016
5 Ways to Become Your Own Boss Without Starting an Actual Business
5 Ways to Become Your Own Boss Without Starting an Actual Business
Complaints of having to “be someone else’s dog” or “help someone else earn money” are common amongst Singaporean ...
1 November 2016
4 Ways Your Appearance Can Affect Your Career
4 Ways Your Appearance Can Affect Your Career
So, you thought that looking like a huge slob was only going to affect your success on Tinder, eh? Well, ...
31 October 2016