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…
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 buying a new one. Consistently the quality of the lightning…
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…
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…
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…
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!…
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…
 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…
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…
