4 Ways Singapore Speakers Hypnotize Their Audience To Sleep
I have stage fright. It has always been the case since I was young and I realized the severity of it when I decided to participate in singing contests during…
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How To Uncover 8 Hidden Talent Pools That Already Exist
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…
How To Improve Productivity With Simple Feng Shui Hacks
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…
Why this $800 job ad will get 0% response
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…
My days of frayed lightning cable are over
iPhone and iPad users, don’t you just hate it when you get this? I lost count on the number of cables I had to patch, re-patch, patch again and eventually…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
