Why this $800 job ad will get 0% response
Reading Time: 6 minutes 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…
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My days of frayed lightning cable are over
Reading Time: 2 minutes 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,…
Employers, stop your Sweet Young Thing obsession
Reading Time: 4 minutes 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.…
5 Secrets Headhunters Will Never Tell You
Reading Time: 5 minutes 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…
5 Employee Referrals Trends Companies Need to Know.
Reading Time: 2 minutes 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.…
Cebu – Swim with the (whale)sharks
Reading Time: 3 minutes 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…
Cebu – my first trip to the Philippines
Reading Time: 2 minutes 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…
What you need to know if you’re starting an agency recruitment career in Singapore
Reading Time: 3 minutes 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…
10 lessons managers should learn from their mothers
Reading Time: 2 minutes 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…
