The Importance of Feedback to Executives, Jobseekers and Career Builders

Feedback Feature

By Aryong Lim Feedback is considered a powerful tool in marketing. Without feedback, all will be lost. Resources and time will be wasted on junk. In this day and age of CRM, there’s no room for a marketing manager who doesn’t believe in the importance of feedback, needless to say.  The c[......]

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Executive Productivity: Perform Like a Boss

executive-productivity

by Christine c. Bitoon “Time is of the essence” is a cliché often heard, and for good reason. In every aspect of life, time is the one in control. If you do not work around any given time you are given, you will most likely fail. For top executives, there seems to be less and less time for both work[......]

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Motivating Yourself into Taking Action

Aspire

By Lisa Cheong You thought about leaving your job for something better for a while now, but you’ve always made excuses for yourself for not taking pro-active steps in your job search in Singapore. Whether it is a new project at work or your busy family life, something always gets in the way of your [......]

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Faith and Hope in the Context of Job Searching

Leap of Faith

By Aryong Lim Contrary to what you might think, faith and hope can also be used within the context of job search.  Faith, in its most basic sense, means trusting someone. To hope, on the other hand, is to believe that things will turn out just fine amid chaos. Given that the competition for Singapor[......]

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Lack of Attention to Detail Drives CFOs Nuts, Boost Your Confidence at Work, Are you with a Top Employer in SG?

Singapore News

Compiled by Lisa Cheong Lack of attention to detail drives CFOs nuts Nearly four in ten chief financial officers in the US say sloppy work and lack of attention to detail is their biggest pet peeve. “Having to constantly double-check someone else’s work is a sure recipe for tension between coworkers[......]

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When a Top Exec Leaves…

Top Level Resignation

By Aryong Lim Employees come and go. Practitioners of HR are used to this sad but commonly-occurring thing in organisations. Particularly in a jobseeker market (like what we have right now), it is the priority of HR departments to strategise against talent resignation and shortage. Needless to say, [......]

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Starting Early on Resolutions

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by Christine C. Bitoon While everybody is taking it easy in their current job positions, setting aside the thoughts of transferring to another company or venturing into a new industry, you can gain an edge by doing something else. Level up your career by maximizing this downtime as the holidays arri[......]

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Give and take: The Benefits of Being a Mentor

mentoring

by Christine C. Bitoon Top level executives have their hands full. They attend meetings, they sit down and analyze industry trends, they hold the most crucial tasks in a company. And on top of all that, they have to watch their own backs to ensure that their career is going somewhere. Is it even pos[......]

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Poor Communication Skills are Source of Workplace Failures; Building Future Architecture Talent

Singapore News

Compiled by Lisa Cheong Poor communication skills are source of workplace failures Eighty-six percent of employees say the lack of collaboration or ineffective communication has resulted in workplace failures, which takes its toll on the bottomline. In a survey conducted by leadership development co[......]

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Skills Shortage and the Overseas Bug

Job Prospects Abroad

By Aryong Lim Singapore is widely considered as one of the ‘better’ countries to work in Southeast Asia. It is no secret that many foreign professionals join the country’s talent pool yearly, making the competition for jobs tighter and the locals, more worked-up. Consequently, more[......]

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