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What Makes You Employable in 2010? (Singapore Star)
What Makes You Employable in 2010?
Traits That Will Enhance Your Chances of Getting Hired
By Stuart Parkin
Published: February 01, 2010
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We live in a rapidly changing business world, and the agency business is likely to continue to face huge shifts in 2010. Still, there are certain core tenets that can act as guidelines to help make you more employable. Here’s what will get you hired this year.
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Hey S’porean, would you do these jobs? (The New Paper 26 Jan)
Hey S’porean, would you do these jobs?
Foreigners are willing to do what locals won’t even with more pay, say some employers. -TNP
Tue, Jan 26, 2010
The New Paper
He wrote that some of the foreigners had master’s degrees and were willing to work for less than $2,000 a month, compared to local fresh graduates who asked for at least $2,500.
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Job losses minimised in 2009, thanks to govt action (Asiaone 4 Jan)
Job losses minimised in 2009, thanks to govt action
But with Jobs Credit scheme expiring in June, will bosses let go of redundant staff? -BT
Mon, Jan 04, 2010
The Business Times
THE list of casualties wasn’t as long as you might have expected from the worst global downturn since the 1929 Great Depression. By the time 2009 ended, about 20,000 workers had been laid off here, according to the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC).
And that’s less than the numbers in the previous two crashes – 29,080 during the 1998 Asian financial crisis and 25,840 during the 2001 Sars outbreak.
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HR changes in the past decade (HR Online)
Jan 4, 2010
HR changes in the past decade
Benefits, revised notions of work are among the concepts that have evolved quietly
REVISIONS to the notion of work and the evolution of benefits are two workplace concepts that have quietly changed during the past 10 years.
Human Resource Executive Online (HREOnline) magazine, in a report on Wednesday, went digging for these and other key working life trends that slid into the picture without that burst of recognition accompanying them.
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Why you should embrace that contract (Today)
For many workers the data may be unnerving. Instead of an increase in permanent employment, what’s actually rising is contract employment.
The latest Singapore Workforce report from the Ministry of Manpower showed that nearly 13 per cent of resident employees are on term contracts. On top of this, the percentage of part-timers in the resident workforce rose from 6.8 per cent last year to 8.4 per cent this year. With such a high proportion of employees currently in contract and part-time positions – and with the percentages rising – the very nature of employment has changed substantially.
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Graduates dealt harder jobs blow (ST 16 Dec)
DESPITE signs of a turnaround in the job market, university graduates are no better off.
In fact, more of them are without jobs and taking longer to land a job, according to revised official figures released yesterday.
Part of the reason is that they often tend to seek jobs that pay close to what they used to earn, said MP Josephine Teo, who is also assistant secretary-general of the National Trades Union Congress.
However, economists interviewed foresee their lot improving in the new year, when growth is expected to hit 5.5 per cent, according to a recent poll of 20 private-sector economists by the Monetary Authority of Singapore.
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From selling burgers to saving rainforests (Sunday Times 26 Oct)
Mr Sun has been named by Time magazine as one of its Heroes of the Environment. The Australian had his first taste of entrepreneurship at 18, earning $13,000 on his first day selling vegetarian burgers and noodles at a rock concert. — ST PHOTO: LIM SIN THAI
From selling burgers to saving rainforests
Self-made millionaire brokers carbon credit deals between farmers and big corporationsi
By Tan Dawn We
When Australian Dorjee Sun was just 18, he had his first taste of entrepreneurship when he discovered a niche he could plug at rock concerts.
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Ice cream shops are hot (Sunday Times 25 Oct)
Ice cream shops are hot
Fans of the frozen dessert are in for a treat, with at least five new shops and plenty of unusual flavours
By Huang Lijie
Mr Richard Ang and his wife, Janelle Kam, invested about $30,000 of their savings to set up the six-seat Taste Matters ice cream dessert shop in Bukit Timah. –ST PHOTOS: SHAHRIYA YAHAYA
Anyone who has eaten ice cream on a hot day will tell you that when it comes to enjoying the sweet treat, quick licks are everything.
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The hiring gates re-open (Today 23 Oct)
The hiring gates re-open
05:55 AM Oct 23, 2009
by Lin Yanqin yanqin@mediacorp.com.sg
THE layoffs of the past nine to 12 months are starting to catch up with employers.
As the Singapore economy turns the corner and with potential growth ahead, more employers here plan to hire staff in this final quarter – more than at any other period this year – according to the latest report on manpower outlook by Hudson.
Some employers are already starting to restore pay cuts or shortened work hours, said the recruitment consultancy.
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Crossing 50: Worries of a Working Heartlander (ST Forum 21 Oct)
Crossing 50: Worries of a working heartlander
I REACHED 50 years of age recently. Crossing the half-century hurdle creates fresh hurdles.
At this age, heartlanders like me are neither in the younger worker age group nor in the senior worker group – neither here nor there.
I worry about holding on to my job, raising and educating my children and keeping my home secure until all mortgages are paid off. Unremitting price hikes for virtually all basic necessities like food, transport and utilities, as well as the goods and services tax hike, also worry me.
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Maximising your career options (Today 19 Oct)
Maximising your career options
05:55 AM Oct 19, 2009
by Sattar Bawany succeed@mediacorp.com.sg
Gone are the days of lifetime employment; job tenure is shrinking.
On a global basis as well as in Singapore, average job tenure has reduced from seven to six years, according to DBM, a human resource consulting firm that surveys professionals in transition each year.
Statistics now show employees will find themselves in the midst of a job change at least eight times in their lifetime.
What will make this inevitable event a success depends on the depth and breadth of your personal network.
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Teachers and trainers are happiest: Poll (ST 19 Oct)
Teachers and trainers are happiest: Poll
Job portal also finds civil servants are happier than workers in private sector
By Gabriel Chen
IF YOU want to be happy at work, become a teacher or work in the service sector.
That is the key message that emerges from an online poll of 5,460 working adults conducted by JobsCentral. The job network portal asked respondents across Singapore how satisfied they were with
various aspects of their jobs to produce an overall ‘happiness’ score, with 100 signifying ‘very happy’ and 50 ‘neutral’.
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Hope for all, regardless of faith (Sunday Times 18 oct)
SM Goh speaking to some of the booth operators at the Paya Lebar Methodist Church job fair yesterday. About 1,500 jobs were on offer from 20 employers from sectors such as health care, security and property. — ST PHOTO: KEVIN LIM
Former car mechanic Don Anil Rhuperth Kumanayake made his first-ever visit to a church yesterday – not to attend a service, but for a job fair.
The 53-year-old, who lost his job in June, was hoping to find a similar position or to sign up for a skills upgrading course to enter a new industry.
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Older Workers: Use Your Age to Your Advantage (Joe Turner)
Older Workers/Job-Seekers:
Use Your Age to Your Advantage
by Joe Turner
While it’s true that not all employers will be gung-ho about hiring, or even retaining, older workers in the coming years, the overall statistics might well be on your side, if you’re 50+ years. As has been reported often enough, the limited numbers of workers in the Gen-Y age group will not match the rising need for workers over the next 10 years.
This discrepancy means that employers will be faced with more vacancies that force them to look at alternate labor sources. Sure, they can outsource, further automate, or contract their staffing ranks, but these approaches will not suffice in all cases.
