Employers, stop your Sweet Young Thing obsession
Difficulties in hiring staff and the high labour costs are being blamed for a revenue slump among the 1,000 top small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) here. This is according to the latest Singapore SME 1000 (SME1000) ranking that found the…
5 Secrets Headhunters Will Never Tell You
Everyone has secrets In my years of interfacing with candidates, they often voice an almost similar frustration about headhunters or recruiters. Many go to them in hope of getting extra help to find their next dream job. Instead what they…
5 Employee Referrals Trends Companies Need to Know.
According to the 2014 CareerXRoads Sources of Hire Report, referrals make up 41.9 per cent of all hires, making them the leading source of external hires. This is almost double of the 2011 results. Why is this mode of hiring…
Cebu – Swim with the (whale)sharks
So we drag our asses to the meeting point at 4am. We have to go early as the trip from our resort to Oslob would take about 2 hours. We started off with a short briefing and away we go!…
Cebu – my first trip to the Philippines
And it was my first time flying Silkair too. I realized they don’t have the TV screen that SQ has. Darn it! No movies to watch and Super Marios to play. It is also the first time I travelled with…
What you need to know if you’re starting an agency recruitment career in Singapore
According to Ministry of Manpower Singapore, there are a total of 2,222 registered recruitment agencies in Singapore. If each of them house 10 recruiters, we are looking at 22,220 recruiters. So you are looking at 1 recruiter to every…
10 lessons managers should learn from their mothers
With Mother’s Day just past, I wonder how many of us remember the lessons our mothers taught us about life management. Here are 10 lessons which all managers should learn from their mothers: 1. Love what you do Passion for…
