HR & Education
How to ask for a pay rise
47% of employees in Singapore are expecting a pay increase of 5-10% this year and 83% are expecting to take home a bonus.
How to ask for a pay rise
47% of employees in Singapore are expecting a pay increase of 5-10% this year and 83% are expecting to take home a bonus.
Doing business in Korea
South Korea is one of Asia’s dark horses, often overshadowed by India and China, yet its GDP is on target to reach US$1 trillion, making it the 13th...
Singapore companies scrambling to keep prized employees
Employers are using bonus schemes, stock options or education benefits to lure back an increasing number of skilled Singaporeans heading for...
Singapore job vacancies increased by 36%
Over the year, job vacancies increased up to 50,200 in September 2010, the highest recorded since the comparable series started in March 2006.
Singapore employment up by 20,500
Total gains in the first nine months came in at 82,500, in contrast to an almost flat growth of 100 over the same period last year when the economy...
1% of Singaporean companies still in recession mode
While 44% of Singaporean companies said that they have emerged from recession mode and are back in growth mode.
Singapore salaries seen to surge 4.4% in 2011
Banking industry is back in 2010 with the highest salary increases among all industries surveyed as higher rate of turnover reported across...
How to resign gracefully
In a survey of 98 Singapore-based professionals conducted by Randstad in September, 39% intend to switch jobs in the next 12 months to capitalise the...
An Expert's Guide to Interview Success
How you perform in interviews is one of the most important factors in determining whether or not you secure the job you want. But these days it’s not...
Employees to Singapore companies: It's bigger bonuses or goodbye
50% of Singapore companies are scrambling for ways to retain employees as 67% of them report of increasing attrition rates in 2010 due to employees...
Thieving employees in Asia steal twice as much as those in the rest of the world
The average workplace fraud in Asia is US$300,000 compared to a worldwide average of $160,000.
Singaporean employees get tips for hunt for their dream jobs
Hays enumerates tips for employees on how to snag their ideal careers.
Singapore's yuppies couldn't care less about marketing themselves
78% of employees from Generation X are prepared to spend their own money on training to upgrade their skills as opposed to 70% of Generation Y...
Making mature age employment work
The fact that we have an ageing population is well known. According to the Committee on Ageing Issues Report on the Ageing Population, between now...
Singapore executives overwhelmed by flood of business data
Yet they still seek more and faster data as survey finds data deluge driving IT investments in customer relationship management software and security...
Employees better not cry: 91% of Singapore companies won't lay off staff until Christmas
Less than a tenth of employers will be reducing their staff numbers in 4Q10, but the number is still higher than the comparative 4Q figure for China...
The truth behind attaining work/life balance
So is work/life balance really attainable?
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