14 Productivity Tools and Apps That Help Me Achieve More in 2019
Productivity – the buzzword of the Singapore economy since time immemorial. In the beginning, it was very much centred on the industrial age that we were in. This means getting operators to adopt new equipment, change to new workflows or…
How Alt Learning reduced onboarding cost and increased efficiency
What if we train them and they leave? What if we don’t and they stay? This is a common phrase whenever discussion surrounds training. Or in today’s context, better known as learning & development. In a research paper by Dr…
The journey up your career Everest is full of challenges. Here’s how to conquer it
In 2019, Jeremy Tong – the then 29-year-old Singaporean successfully scaled up Mount Everest. Stories like his often get romanticised, but his journey climbing the world’s tallest mountain was anything but rosy. The path to the summit was full of…
Using RChilli to accelerate your candidate screening process
Most recently I was invited to moderate a panel discussion related to time-to-fill. Essentially the premise on how do you accelerate the process from application to the onboarding of the candidate. Traditionally, this would mean getting the applications in, manual…
How To Know If Your HR Tech Vendor is going to cost you an additional $1m
[guestpost]This is a guest post by Qian Li, an internationally recognized Fellow of Information Privacy. He is also the author for the most read article on The Privacy Advisor, an online publication by the International Association of Privacy Professionals.[/guestpost] Over…
6 Steps To A Productive Performance Review
Performance appraisals are always time bound activity. In most of the organizations, performance appraisals are also associated with salary revisions and it is important to complete the performance appraisal before the salary revisions are due. Performance appraisals are also an…
Interview with Vinay Johar, CEO at Rchilli
Vinay is a Serial Entrepreneur and currently running his third venture – RChilli. RChilli is known for providing parsing, matching and enrichment to every recruitment management system, making sure that resume data is captured, managed and analyzed in the most proficient…
Swingvy raises $7 million Series A led by Samsung Ventures first ever investment in South-East Asia
Singapore, Malaysia, Taipei and Seoul, April 29, 2019 – Swingvy, an all-in-one HR, payroll and benefits platform for small and medium-sized businesses, today announced it has raised $7 million in a Series A funding round. Samsung Venture Investment Corporation (“Samsung…
How Jinie can handle your HR queries 24/7
Imagine a colleague (Let’s call this colleague Jinie) in your HR department that will start the day by reminding everyone in the company about their upcoming schedule. And Jinie will work 24/7, surpassing Jack Ma’s 996 (9 am to…
Want your dream job? Here are the career milestones to hit at every age
When a former colleague, Eliza*, who has dedicated years in tech start-ups, quit and joined a government-linked company (GLC), it came as a surprise. Why the drastic change? Then she broke it down for me: The horrendous long hours, non-existent…