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Your Career fitness_30 90 180 days
WHETHER you have let your career fitness slip or never focused on it before, now is an opportune time to get in shape for your professional future. It does not matter if you need to find a new job right away, think you may hunt for one in the future, or want to grow in the job you already have. There are appropriate steps to boost your marketability, confidence and success.....
ST article-It Pays To Plan Ahead_HK3
The late Intel chief executive Andy Grove once said, "No matter where you work, you are not an employee. You are in a business with one employee - yourself - in competition with millions of similar individual businesses worldwide. No body owes you a career - you own it as a sole proprietor.....
CT Booklet_Preparing Resumes
A résumé is an essential presentation tool to market ourselves to prospective employees) to obtain that desired job position. Needless to say, great amounts of effort will have to be expanded in drafting a professional, individualized résumé and keeping it updated with our latest achievements and professional milestones.....
Learn how to get back on your feet after losing your job
Consider the current Covid-19 Crisis. You might be a top performer with an industry that is impacted by this crisis. If this crisis force your company to downsize, your years of loyalty and performance might not save your job. It is a business decision, not a personal one. Over the years, industries have evolved to meet the requirements of an ever-changing society.....
A Successful Career Needs Long-Term Planning
A career is a path you choose to take you closer to your ideal form of work. It implies training, commitment, success in what you have chosen to do as well as an accompanying sense of personal and financial well-being. To achieve these benefits, you need a lifetime of career planning, preparation and placement.....
HK on AGE-PROOF YOUR WORKLIFE with Straits Times
Here are some tips from workplace consultants Harold Kwan and Sandra Sandu and erstwhile job-seeker Rith Yaap on how to stay ahead of the pack in boom-and-bust times.....
Using LinkedIn
Just as you can surf a company’s website to glean more information, so too do HR recruiters visit LinkedIn to read your profile. They get a feel of who you are, make judgements, form first impressions. LinkedIn is an important step the recruiting process. If you are not already on LinkedIn, you are invisible to recruiters.....
Harold’s networking secrets to land the job you want
THE SECRET of career success is knowing people who are in the know about job openings that are not visible in the open market. This kind of people-connection helps you sniff out a desirable job that you won’t find advertised in the papers or online job sites, says Harold Kwan, who has been sharing with students and business clients the techniques and practice of networking as part of his human resource consultancy.....