Posts Tagged ‘executive’
Foreclosures Force Ex-Homeowners To Turn To Shelters (New York Times 18 Oct)
Sheri West operated a shelter for homeless people, but last year she lost her home in Cleveland and had to sleep in her car. By PETER S. GOODMAN Published: October 18, 2009 CLEVELAND — The first night after she surrendered her house to [...]
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 [...]
They want to be social workers (Today 19 Oct)
Successful applicants Nellie Ho and Justin Ng. DON WONG They want to be social workers 05:55 AM Oct 19, 2009 by Esther Ng SHE was "going through a mid-life crisis" and was not happy with her job as a software engineer. Mother-of-three [...]
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 [...]
Migration does a world of good (Sunday Times 18 Oct)
Migration does a world of good Migrant workers do improve their own lives and economies of host countries: UN report By Tan Dawn Wei When Annie left her parents, husband and young children in Solo, Indonesia, to make that trip to [...]
Are new flats affordable? (ST 17 Oct)
THE Housing Board has stressed that new flats are affordable because first-time buyers use on average less than 30 per cent of their household income to service their housing loans. To shore up this finding, the board has also compared averae [...]
Lost your job? Here’s what to do (Readers Digest Oct 09)
(Our website www.transitioning.org was featured in this article below) Lost Your Job? Here's what to do by Chloë Bryan-Brown October 2009 Former hotel manager Simon Laurie joined a hotel and catering multinational when he was 25. “I [...]
Finding your way, reinvented (Today 14 Oct)
Mr Saurav Bhattacharyya, Executive Director of Quantum Inventions Finding your way, reinvented 05:55 AM Oct 14, 2009 by Cheow Xin Yi SINGAPORE - A lack of business experience has not deterred Mr Saurav Bhattacharyya, a former university [...]
25 Things I Learned About Business from “Its Always Sunny” (Focus Editors)
Fans of FX’s It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia might chuckle at the idea of gleaning serious business advice from such a silly show. Between Frank’s bluntness and Deandra’s cluelessness, the characters are hardly captains of industry. But a [...]
All I Want For Christmas: A Job (CNN Money 11 Oct)
All I want for Christmas: A job This holiday season, there will be more workers competing for fewer jobs. 'It'll be a sad Christmas for my kids,' said one job seeker. By Jessica Dickler, CNNMoney.com staff writer Last Updated: October 11, [...]
Job seekers prefer newspaper ads (ST 12 Oct)
Oct 12, 2009 WORKING LIFE Job seekers prefer newspaper ads They find newspapers have more job ads, are up to date and are easier to search By Jessica Cheam A RECENT survey of Singapore's workforce has found that the newspaper medium is [...]
You can run, but you can’t hide (Sunday Times 11 Oct)
You can run, but you can't hide Bad credit history will catch up with you, making it difficult to get mortgages or loans By Lorna Tan, Senior Correspondent Many people do not understand the importance of maintaining a good credit history. [...]
S’pore investors more risk averse (ST 10 Oct)
S'pore investors more risk-averse They also trust financial institutions less: Survey By Gabriel Chen The financial crisis has not shaken the confidence of Singaporeans in the Government and media, according to the Aviva survey. It also [...]
Singapore pays $30M for East Side Garage (The Real Deal)
Singapore pays $30M for East Side garage October 05, 2009 01:00PM By Adam Pincus 318 East 48th Street (Photo source: PropertyShark) The Singapore government paid $29.5 million for a 40,000-square-foot garage building near the United Nations [...]
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 [...]
