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How Singaporeans can think differently in this competitive time

Our landscape is changing. We have to think differently. A question is: can we?

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How Singaporeans can think differently in this competitive time

Our landscape is changing. We have to think differently. A question is: can we?

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3 pieces of advice for successful networking

Dating and business networking. Most often, two separate topics and scenarios. However, there are a number of striking similarities. First impressions, the fear of rejection, the presence of alcohol, and holding out hope that you’ll get a ‘follow-up’ call or email—it’s all basically the same.

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Will the effort to hire locals first affect the foreign influx?

From August 2014 if you want to hire a foreigner you will have to go through the process of advertising for a local, first. Ministry of Manpower announced the new measures that will force employers to use the Ministry of Workforce Development Agency job bank for 14 days to advertise. The aim is to try and increase the amount of locals employed before being allowed to employ a foreigner.

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Does work still work for 21st century businesses in Singapore?

Adopting a more flexible approach can offer organisations access to a much wider range of talent.

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5 things Singapore bosses must know when drafting an employment contract

As a first-time director or a manager in medium-sized companies who’s on a hiring spree, you’re thinking: “What clauses should a Singapore employment contract constitute?” There are five key considerations when drafting one.

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Here's the road map to everyday negotiation in Singapore

Deals and agreements are made every day in the work environment, whether internally with colleagues or externally with business partners. Disputes are settled, synergy is created, and the vital process of negotiation determines the outcome for each party involved.

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How Singapore expats can effectively plan an 'international retirement'

Offshore Portable Retirement Planning for Expats in Singapore

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Debunking the 5 common myths of investing

If you ask the ordinary person in Singapore, what they think about investing their hard earned money, most of them will probably want to stay clear from it.

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How to keep the digitally-savvy, millennial Singaporeans happy

Millennials, also known as Generation Y, are those belonging to the last batch of the 20th century, and the first truly digital people of the new millennium. They were born from the early 1980s to the early 2000s, so technically, their ages range somewhere between 13 and 33.

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What Singapore's new maritime labour laws really imply

On 20 August 2013 the Maritime Labour Convention (“MLC”) came into force. It could be argued that this brings the shipping sector, kicking and screaming, into line with other generally accepted international labour conventions—but that would be, perhaps, an over-simplification of what is are complex cross-border issues.

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Branding lessons from Apple that Singaporean firms must learn

Since the launch of Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (AWDC) on 10-14 June at San Francisco, there had been little hype around the Apple brand till the recent release of the new iPhone 5C and iPhone 5S products on 12 September 2013.

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10 types of annoying bosses you'll meet in Singapore

You can stay out of your house longer if you don't like your wife, ignore your parents' calls when you are too bored to talk to them, but bosses... that's a tricky one. Whether you like them or not, you have to interact with them, and if you are planning to stick around in your job, you have to keep them happy. We give you the 10 most common types of bosses.

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PR lessons Singaporeans must learn from Marissa Mayer

Ask every Singaporean business founder how much time and money do they spend on public relations, and the usual answer is “Nothing.” With a limited amount of both resources, entrepreneurs rather worry about building product and doing sales than getting buzz.

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3 simple ways for Singaporeans to get happier

There has been some provoking media recently asking whether or not Singaporeans are actually happy. We hear about findings that point to poor mental health, work-related/academic pressure and of course the hotly-debated global ‘happiness survey’ listing Singapore as the 90th country and the least ‘happy’ in Asia.

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Is Singapore really heading towards flexible work arrangement now?

Flexible work arrangements (FWA) are often described as the next frontier of smart talent management. However in Singapore, just two out of 10 employees have the flexibility to work at alternative locations, and just 25 per cent say they can work to timings that suit their family needs.

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What you must know about bulk buying, crowd funding, and real estate

The Internet has been around for the last few decades. When it first started, brick and mortar business could not fathom why they would want to be present in the digital space.

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