HR & Education
MBA Rankings: Foreigners make up for lack of local MBA takers in Singapore
MBA Rankings: Foreigners make up for lack of local MBA takers in Singapore
MBA providers are struggling to attract local students, but renewed interest from Vietnam, India, and China buoy the industry’s performance.
Singapore unlikely to soften curb on low-skilled foreign workers
But the city-state looks to lure more talents in high-skilled areas such as fintech.
Is Singapore's demographic a ticking time bomb for businesses?
This generation is living longer than ever before. In Singapore, life expectancy at birth for men is 80 and women is 85 (as of 2015). This is compared...
Prudential scraps retirement age for employees
The statutory retirement age of 62 is quite still far from Singapore's average lifespan of 83.1.
Daily Briefing: SingPass mobile app hit with software error; British manufacturer Dyson to build electronic cars in Singapore
And NTU teams up with NRF and HP for $81m corpo innovation lab.
Almost half of employees in Singapore not satisfied with workload compensation
Employee engagement in Singapore continued to decline over the last three years.
NUS launches new full term scholarship for entrepreneurship
It will include up to $50,000 seed funding for graduates.
Daily Briefing: DPM Teo says ministerial salary is totally transparent; MND minister says too early to judge property curbs' efficiency
NETS to enable QR codes generation by smartphones for merchants.
Hefty paychecks await web developers in Singapore, but where are the jobs?
The Lion City lags behind in terms of demand for developers compared to Indonesia.
NUS loses crown as Asia's best university
Singapore’s premiere university lost by just a mere 0.4 ppt to Tsinghua in the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings.
People powered future: Why we all need to champion tomorrow's talent
Singapore is facing an inherent 30% talent shortage, particularly in the industries of Fintech, where the government set the goal of adding 1,000 jobs...
Online hiring up 3% in July
Jobs relating to cybersecurity, compliance, and analytics are in demand.
Hiring intentions remain positive across seven sectors in Q4
But a measly 16% of firms are looking to add manpower.
6500 workers hired in H1 but long term unemployment rises: MOM
The construction and manufacturing sectors contracted its employment growth.
MOM has no jurisdiction over employment agencies abroad: Zaqy Mohamad
It cannot regulate overseas agencies that charge more than the maximum agency fees.
Over 500 complaints filed for failure to issue mandatory itemised payslips
MoM has notified 1,200 employers to fix their payslip practices.
Singapore's flexible working revolution – on paper only?
It’s been almost a year since Singapore’s Ministry for Manpower launched the Tripartite Standard on Flexible Working Arrangements. Arguably enough...