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Taking your career up and beyond
Career progression is important to all Singaporean professionals as it offers them the opportunity to develop their skills and broaden their experience. You can achieve this through an internal promotion with your current employer or by seeking external job opportunities.
Taking your career up and beyond
Career progression is important to all Singaporean professionals as it offers them the opportunity to develop their skills and broaden their experience. You can achieve this through an internal promotion with your current employer or by seeking external job opportunities.
The key to overcome barriers to growth
“The secret of success is to understand the point of view of others,” said the US carmaker Henry Ford, a man who knew a few things about corporate growth. Ford’s advice is especially worth remembering at a time when businesses of all sizes are looking for growth opportunities overseas.
Managing creative destruction
Why outsourcing strategies need to be underpinned by human resource planning. It is said that Henry Ford invented modern capitalist society when he raised his worker's wages to an unprecedented US$5 a day.
Don’t worry, be happy (at work)
Happiness is the key to productivity and learning is the key to happiness.
Bedok, Punggol, Pasir Ris seen as top investment areas
Inventory build-up fast tracks formation of new housing clusters in many suburban areas, says Savills.
Pasir Ris reports the largest home supply in Q411
Guess which areas in Singapore took the second and third spot?
February home sales the highest in 31 months
More property curbs however are seen as the forefront risk for developers.
Perps grow in popularity as acquisitions rise in Industrial REITS
YTD aggregate acquisition now hits S$606.9m v the S$556.4m in 4Q11 to be financed mostly through combination of debt and equity.
Currency Briefing - what you need to know for Fri March 16, 2012
The US dollar came off its recent high against the Singapore dollar.
Chart of the Day: US 5-year swap rate tests but fails to close above 200-day MA
On 15 March 2012 the growth oriented currencies rallied against the US dollar.
Singapore Markets Morning Briefing - what you need to know for Fri March 16, 2012
Wall Street continued its bull run while the STI sat above 3,000.
SGX wants to know what you think
SGX is consulting the public on its proposed changes to the reporting and registration of Negotiated Large Trades in the derivatives market.
9,990 Singapore workers were laid off in 2011
That's higher than the 9,800 firings in 2010, but the bigger question is: How fast did they find work?
Guess who's still hiring in Singapore?
The services sector continues its hiring spree with another hundred-thousand new jobs in 2011 but manufacturing is in stasis mode.
Real average earnings grew a miniscule 0.7%
Skyrocketing inflation and an ever-tightening labor market to be blamed for the pittance of progress.
F&B sales back in the doldrums
It slipped to negative growth territory again this February with renewed weakness from restaurant receipts.
Computers and clothes sold less in February
Both retail sectors saw steep declines nearing double-digit percentages, while car sales bounced back strong.
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