‘Surviving unemployment’ Archives
Lessons I learned during my unemployment
First of all, thanks for allowing us to interview you online Joshua and can you provide us with some background information on yourself? I am a degree holder and I worked in HR for around 6 years prior to 2008. Currently, I’m working in the [...]
Eight Reasons Why Foreign Workers Are Preferred Over Local Ones
This article first appeared here on 21 May 2010. When the Singapore government decided to ease regulations on the hiring of foreign workers so that employers can fill up those nagging job vacancies, there was much cheer and giety. It [...]
Employers Still Discriminating Against Older Workers
This article was first posted here on 30 Mar 2009. Written by Gilbert Goh Having met more than a dozen unemployed Singaporeans either through my unemployment support site transitioning.org or my own personal contacts, I observed [...]
10 Simple Truths Smart People Forget
10 Simple Truths Smart People Forget Posted: 09 Jan 2011 08:37 PM PST Some of the smartest people I know continuously struggle to get ahead because they forget to address a few simple truths that collectively govern our potential to make [...]
7 Ways To Overcome Disappointment Of Job Rejection
7 Ways To Overcome Disappointment Of Job Rejection Written by: Gilbert Goh Its true that a job rejection can be as devastating as a retrenchment. I have received a few emails from jobseekers telling me how crushed they have felt when they [...]
Should you grab any job that comes along?
Editor's note: This article first appeared here on 21 Jun 2009. Should you grab any job that comes along? Written By: Gilbert Goh Should you grab any job that comes your way after being retrenched? Many I know will try to go back to their [...]
How to Make Age An Asset When Job Searching
This article first appeared here on 29 Apr, 2010. Guest Author Tory Johnson is Founder/CEO of Women For Hire. Age Discrimination Many job searching Americans over 40 often encounter something they weren't looking for: a "gray ceiling." It's [...]
6 Reasons Why People Are Afraid to Start a Business
Posted: 19 Jun 2010 07:50 PM PDT Written by Gary Gon Starting a new business can be a turbulent undertaking. For one thing, there are no guarantees of success. Businesses fail every single day, and plenty of entrepreneurs come away with [...]
How to Strengthen Your Brain (And Keep It Strong as You Age)
www.StevePavlina.com Lately I've been reading up on brain health, and I want to share some of the most significant findings with you, especially as it pertains to keeping your brain healthy, strong, and sharp throughout your life. It's [...]
7 Deadly Sins of Creativity
November 27th, 2011 @ 1:48 pm by: Marc Creativity is not just for artists and poets. Everybody has the potential to exercise their creative mind – to innovate new ways of accomplishing things that will ultimately make life easier and more [...]
How to recover from an unfair dismissal
Transitioning.org has received a few mails lately from Singaporeans who were dismissed from their jobs. Half of them were carried out in acriminous circumstances and we have to advise our disgruntled readers how to better manage [...]
10 Things You Should Be Able To Say Before You Die
1. I followed my heart and intuition. As our friend Steve Jobs says: “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. [...]
18 Things My Dad Was Right About
Marc and Angel Fifteen years ago, when I was a freshman in high school, my English teacher gave my class a homework assignment entitled, “Advice for a Younger Generation.” The concept of the assignment was simple: Each student had to [...]
7 Ways To Move Out Of Depression For The Unemployed
This article first appeared here on 20 May 2010. 7 Ways To Move Out of Depression For The Unemployed Written by: Gilbert Goh This article is specially written for those who think that they have hit the end of the rope. They have done [...]
7 Ways To Come out of Prolonged Unemployment
This article first appeared here on Aug 29, 2009 7 Ways To Come Out Of Prolonged Unemployment Written by: Gilbert Goh Many readers I met have been out of work for many months. Many also experience joblessness lasting more than a year. One I [...]
