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Lack of skilled sales people holding back Asian corporates
Asia Pacific companies have to step up their sales game, but a lack of sales skills is holding them back.
Lack of skilled sales people holding back Asian corporates
Asia Pacific companies have to step up their sales game, but a lack of sales skills is holding them back.
Can a ‘Nick Leeson’ strike twice in Singapore?
At the last CEO breakfast meeting, I was amused to hear the following table talk. “What do you think of misdeeds in US companies? Is it greed only or...
Are you making $6,300 a month as a manager ?
That was the median income for managers in 2010, but can you guess how much professionals earned ?
Over half of Singaporeans are paid a bonus on meeting KPI's
Turns out companies are complying with 89% of employees in the private sector found to be under some form of flexible wage system as at end of 2010.
All work and no play boosted labour productivity by 11% in 2010
This following two years of decline and amidst private sector total wages climbing 5.5%.
Ceaseless Education
Man’s search for knowledge and truth never ceases. From Plato’s time to the modern man, the pur- suit to define the “self ” never seems to end. With...
2013: The year the United States becomes a third world country as Asian executive wages overtake American workers
Europe's troubles saw Asian executive salaries overtake European Averages last year, but by 2013 executives in Asia will also be paid more than their...
72% of Singaporean employees willing to work even at age 64
And survey showed four out of ten people would prefer a position with more responsibility even without a salary increase.
Aventis School of Management offers Arcadia University's International M.B.A.
The program has its first cohort of 29 students, majority of whom are executives in Apple Inc., Honeywell, IBM, Panasonic, Hyatt International and...
Employers are hiring; where are the applicants?
There are said to be 1.39 job vacancies for every one unemployed person. And, yes, wages will go up.
MOM enters partnership to improve workplace practices
The collaboration with the International Labour Organisation covers tripartism, occupational safety and health, productivity, employability and...
Is your boss trying to buy you off with free days off instead of cash for overtime ?
If so, you are not alone with companies employing this and other tricks to avoid paying employees more, read to see what else they are doing.
Two-thirds of Singaporean companies will not increase head count next quarter
But banking, insurance and real estate are still hiring.
You’re hired: Total employment in Singapore rose by 28,300 in Q1 2011
Contract workers are getting a 10% premium over perm staff and bean counters are in high demand.
Record job postings: Short-term recruitment freezes over
In Singapore, job advertisements grew by 22% quarter on quarter.
Jobs on: Unemployment rate falls to its lowest since 2007 for residents
It declined for the resident labour force from 3.1% in December 2010 to 2.7% in March 2011.
Did you get your 8.5% wage increase?
If not, you may be losing out as new statistics show overall wages grew by 8.5% y-o-y in the first quarter.
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