It has been real painful for Singapore businesses over the past two years. For a nation that is addicted to the allure of cheap and easy foreign labour, the catastrophic withdrawal symptoms were apparently obvious when scores of companies have…
Singapore’s workforce productivity is declining. According to statistics released by Ministry of Trade and Industry in Feb 2015, Singapore’s labour productivity fell by 0.8 percent in 2014. This is our third consecutive year of productivity decline. And just so recently,…
If you take out the most recent job ad you can find in the newspapers and compare it with another that was published like 10 years ago, you will notice one glaring thing. It looks exactly the same. That’s right…
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…
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…
 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…
