Posts Tagged ‘counselling’
More home-grown confinement nannies (ST 9 Oct)
For Madam Lim, the course helps her break into a new industry after a year of unsuccessful job hunting. She has already landed her first assignment. -- ST PHOTO: CHEW SENG KIM More home-grown confinement nannies Courses to help older S'poreans [...]
More than 100,000 employers to receive $890 million (Asiaone 22 Sep)
More than 100,000 employers to receive $890 million Tue, Sep 22, 2009 AsiaOne More than 100,000 employers, with whom about 1.4 million local workers are employed, will receive $890 million from the third payment of Jobs Credit on September [...]
She quit job as secretary to be a cabby (Asiaone 18 Sep)
She quit job as secretary to be a cabby For the sake of her three children, she switched jobs from being a secretary to a taxi driver. Her husband complimented her career move by becoming a taxi driver himself and they even became partners at [...]
Job interview cues that say “hire me” (New York Times 21 Sep)
Sep 21, 2009 WORKING LIFE Job interview cues that say 'hire me' No set rules but courtesy and common sense give applicants the edge NEW YORK: It is always fun to hear hiring managers recall the most boneheaded mistakes they have seen job [...]
How working parents can find jobs in a Recession (Business Week 16 Sep)
How Working Parents Can Find Jobs In a Recession Posted by: Lauren Young on September 16 Even if the recession is over, the outlook for job seekers remains bleak. I asked Tory Johnson (pictured here), who is chief executive officer of Women [...]
What it takes for foreigners to integrate in Singapore (Sunday Times 20 Sep)
What it takes for foreigners to integrate in S'pore By Radha Basu, Senior Correspondent At an in-house course a couple of months ago, a colleague voiced her deep apprehension about being crowded out of her 'own backyard'. At MRT stations and [...]
Email from a Singaporean PR (15 Sep)
I want to discuss the matter relating to foreign professional in Singapore. It seemed that local university students tend to face tougher competition once they graduate especially during this present recession. Some of the foreign [...]
The jobs that ate a family (The Daily Telegraph 19 Sep)
Gradma Di, left, daughter India, 11, mum Melissa Blackley, daughter Holly, 8, and dad John Anderson at home / John Fotiadis SYDNEY mother-of-two Melissa Blackley is so obsessed with work that she doesn't know what her children eat for lunch and [...]
A Romance Writer Jabs at Singapore’s Patriarchs (New York Times 19 Sep)
Catherine Lim at her home in Singapore. By SETH MYDANS Published: September 18, 2009 Singapore IT is the dress, she said, that catches the eye, the long silk sheath with the slits in the sides that offers what she calls “a startling [...]
Cut dependence on foreign labour (My paper 18 Sep)
IT MUST be tough for the authorities to figure out a suitable manpower-deployment system, especially with regard to the complex issue of local businesses hiring foreign workers to increase their profits. Singapore citizens find it difficult to [...]
Tips for Parents (Touching Lives)
Tips for Parents Did you read the report of the 9-year-old who was killed in an accident on her way to school (The Straits Times,16 Sept 2009)? What added to the sadness was the father’s statement that “There are so many things I haven’t [...]
Depression cuts cancer survival (BBC 14 Sep)
Depression 'cuts cancer survival' Cancer patients often struggle with depression Depression can damage a cancer patient's chances of survival, a review of research suggests. The University of British Columbia team said the finding [...]
Counsellors find ways out of debt for families (ST 18 Sep)
Counsellors find way out of debt for families HDB's specially trained staff have helped 800 families so far By Theresa Tan Mr Rashid - with sons Ariff (left) and Zafir and wife Norhasimah in his in-laws' home - was advised to downgrade to a [...]
Face up to real jobless figures (My paper 17 Sep)
I REFER to media reports on the rise in the number of chronically unemployed. For some time, reports have focused on a declining unemployment rate which has stabilised at a seasonally-adjusted 3.3 per cent for two straight quarters. Singaporeans [...]
He-cession: The Recession is an economic crisis for men (Economy Watch)
Eugene, OR, USA, 28 June. Men caused the global recession, and now they are the ones hurting. At least that's what those who dub it a he-cession (or hecession) claim. The global slump has put millions out of jobs, many in male-dominated [...]
