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Best things Singaporean businesses can learn from sports

As the beginning of the soccer season fast approaches, it got me thinking about what Singaporean businesses can learn from the sporting world and the individual athletes and teams we all love to watch.

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Best things Singaporean businesses can learn from sports

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3 awesome tips for Singapore job seekers to get hired ASAP

Attention job seeker! If you want to snag that dream job, it would be wise to work on your employability skills. Your qualifications and credentials are crucial for your prospective employer to determine whether you have the right technical skillset for the job at hand.

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9 tips on how Singapore firms should ride the negative PR storm

2am - After a long day in the office followed by responding to emails from different times zones at home, one last email pops into your mailbox.

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Are Singaporeans still socially mobile?

Life is never fair. People who are born with a silver spoon in their mouth enjoy unfair advantages over their peers. But fortunately in Singapore, all is not lost for the poor kids.

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Singapore reveals 3 economic solutions to traffic congestion for Asian peers

Traffic congestion reduces a country’s potential for creating prosperity. Singapore identified this early in the piece and was able to create an effective system of incentives and constraints so traffic wasn’t a hindrance to economic growth.

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How Singapore economy speeds toward recovery

Singapore is among those economies leading the way in what Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), has dubbed a “three-speed recovery”.

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Why businesses should rent out their underutilized spaces in Singapore

710km2 - the size of our heavily urbanised and small city-state. On a usual workday, you are likely to find yourself entering the packed roads and dense urban jungle that is uniquely Singapore.

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Why career fairs are still relevant to Singapore job seekers

It may seem very 20th century but career fair is still a very useful avenue for you to interface directly with the market and find out first-hand what is available.

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Why Singapore workplaces are not ready to hire 'misfits'

Who are the misfits? They are a bunch of incredibly talented individuals who are called misfits because these are the kind of people whom you would find hard-pressed to pigeon hole into any conventional job description that is currently commonplace in the market.

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The biggest mistakes that leaders in Singapore make

Chantelle is caught in a fix recently. Her direct report, Tina, hasn't been showing a positive attitude at work recently and Chantelle's been trying to give her feedback to Tina about her recent poor performance.

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5 tips on how to build a high-performing Singapore organisation

A recent survey in Singapore showed that few people stay in their jobs for six years or longer these days. Figures show that only 55 percent of men had been in their jobs for six years or more, and just 45 percent of women stayed for that time.

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What Singaporeans are forgetting about the importance of receptionists

Receptionists are the people we meet every day, they are the first persons we encounter when we visit any company and also the people we forget after our business meetings.

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3 things job seekers must know when dealing with recruiters in Singapore

Know what you want. Know where you are being represented. Know how to nurture your relationship with your recruiters. Nearly every job seeker knows these tips. Or they thought they knew.

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Seriously, Singapore needs to forget brainteaser interview questions

Have you used brainteaser interview questions when interviewing a job applicant before? Let’s be honest: did they offer any real insight? Or instead does it seem like their only purpose is to make the interviewer feel superior?

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What many Singaporeans didn't know about Spotify

Evolution of ‘the theatre of the mind’in APAC

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Why Singapore clients must invite their agencies for "Consolation Beer" sessions

Recently Richard Bleasdale, Managing Partner of The Observatory Asia Pacific had dished out some words of wisdom to Singapore agencies urging them to be selective at their pitches given the amount of resources that get burnt in the process.

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How rockstars can be beneficial to Singapore companies

A company’s culture may be one of the key deciding factors for Rockstar Talents when they are deciding a new employer. For the Average Joe, any company will do but not so for Rockstars.

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