HR & Education

Instilling integrity in Singaporeans

Instilling integrity in Singaporeans

Integrity is a little-understood feature of organisations and the individuals they employ. Yet it is much desired. The public, customers, clients –...

5 distinctive traits of a new world manager

Let’s face it; the world we live in is a lot different from the one we grew up in. The science fiction that we grew up reading is becoming reality...

Top 9 foreign groups forming business in Singapore

Britain tops the list and guess who are those catching up.

Good Samaritan: Singapore startup provides Filipino rural youth quick access to call center jobs

BagoSphere launched a pilot call center class in a suburb area in the Philippines in 2011 with a 90% success rate of getting  trainees into call...

New businesses established dip 0.8%

Good news 66% of these young firms are purely Singaporean-owned.

Unemployment inched up to 2.1%

And total employment grew by a scanty 27,400.

2 in 10 companies avoid permanent hiring

Looks like contractual employment looms ahead for applicants.

Higher starting monthly pay shocks fresh grads

Monthly salary for degree holders is S$2,678 for without Honors and S$2,882 for with Honors.

How to manage your diverse team

Greater productivity is one of the major corporate goals of the 21st century. More companies than ever before are using a range of measures to boost...

Singapore's 'FT' conundrum

Almost everywhere in the world FT means "Financial Times", but in Singapore these days, it means "foreign talent", currently a "sensitive" issue, to...

What’s hot in the in-house legal market today

In the legal industry here in Singapore, employers all around are feeling the effects of a talent scarcity. Whether it is junior lawyers or middle to...

3 mindsets Singaporean employers must change

According to a recent news article by Channels News Asia, employee loyalty to their company fell to a five-year low in every major region. And about...

Words to make you sound smarter

Chances are if you work with an MNC, a local public listed company, an SME or even a non-profit organisation in Singapore, you will be bombarded with...

Whopping 200% wage hike to shock hotel workers

Some 3000 employees may have 30%-200% salary increase with the new wage model.

You're fired: Banks planning to cut headcount quadruples to 12%

The banking & financial services sector's hiring expectations dropped sharply from 59% to 34%.

2 in 3 paranoid Singaporeans fear bosses stalking online

50% change their social media privacy settings when jobhunting.