HR & Education

Why freelancing is not exactly a free-for-all career

Self-employed workers often have to manage their back-end needs.

Why freelancing is not exactly a free-for-all career

Self-employed workers often have to manage their back-end needs.

Here's why fewer posts await job seekers in Q4

Nearly 3 in 4 employers don’t plan to hire.

On my own: Number of Singapore’s freelancers blows up to 200,000

Changing employment standards push workers to go independent.

Private education's role in engineering tomorrow's Singapore

In 2015, the Ministry of Manpower reported that four of the top ten professions with the biggest number of vacancies in Singapore were engineering...

1 in 2 Singaporean silver workers are positive about being retained at work

Opportunities will keep growing in the next 5 years, they said.

Online hiring for Singapore-based bankers spiraled down by 8%

Recruiters are still jittery when it comes to boosting headcount.

Training a SkillsFuture generation: Are workers workplace-ready?

Training is an inherently expensive endeavour, and current efforts to train workers to meet the demands of employers are no exception. Thankfully, the...

How do you account for your headcount?

In today's uncertain economic times, many companies are re-looking into their priorities, one of which is to retrench staff as a way to save on...

Future-ready education: Honing the right skills

Singapore is often praised for its high standards of education, so it might be surprising to some that the nation state suffers from a huge knowledge...

Hiring curb feared to come in 2H16 as job market remains conservative

7 out of 10 candidates are cynical on job availabilities.

The challenges facing CIOs in Singapore

As businesses progress towards a digital platform and data-gathering era, the role of a Chief Information Officer (CIO) has become increasingly...

Why the Executive Assistant is important to today's businesses

With the rapid advancement of smartphone technology and Intelligent Personal Assistants (IPAs) such as Apple’s Siri, Google Now, and Microsoft’s...