Where to go, what to do and how to plan your career can be confusing. Especially so when life gets in the way of being able to sit down and chart your own personal roadmap. To help put all that into perspective and make a new job search or skills ...
Both labour experts and practitioners feel that early intervention could be the key.
As part of our ongoing series featuring insights from top business leaders in NTUC’s U Circle of Friends network, we speak to LinkedIn’s managing director for Asia Pacific.
In an increasingly borderless digital world, how can working professionals adapt and even stand out from the crowd? We catch up with Ilja Rijnen, Edrington’s HR director for Asia Pacific and India to hear what he has to say.
Is it just me or do you also feel that the story of digital advancement has become one of replacing working people? From ancient times, man has known only two responses to danger – fight or flight. Hence, that’s how many of us are responding to technological advancements at ...
“I want to set a positive example to my children that we must always embrace learning and improve ourselves,” says NTUC Health Silver Circle Dementia Care Coordinator Sharon Kwek.
If being out of a job and searching for a new one isn’t already emotionally draining, having to do so following retrenchment or dismissal can have devastating effects on a person’s confidence.
Find out how a little support goes a long way as our coaches from NTUC’s e2i (Employment and Employability Institute) helped a 52-year-old retrenched worker and a 39-year-old mother regain their confidence to step back into the workforce.
It’s not every day that you hear about a 60-year-old bouncing back from retrenchment to find gainful employment again. However, with the Labour Movement’s assistance, that is exactly what Kwoh Choo Chye did.
Ending her contract job with HSBC as a senior analyst last November, Mina Koskinen thought she could use a break before starting to apply for jobs through online portals in February this year. Days turned into weeks, and before she knew it, the 38-year-old was jobless for half a year.