Recently I came across an email from a job board looking to hire an Network Engineer with the following requirements: Education and/or Experience Diploma/ Bachelor's degree (B.S.) from an accredited University in Computer Science, Information Technology, Networking or similar field. Minimum 4 years of related experience. Technical Skills - Individual should have experience in/working knowledge of [...]
Our conventional wisdom about teams are about to change radically because everything we previously knew, or thought we knew, about team work have all been quite incomplete. What would you say makes a cohesive, effective and high performing team? I'm sure most of us would start to think about the following: - Clearly defined goals - [...]
NOTE: If you are confident that you will still have a job 5, 10 years down the road; or if you are not worried about the future of work, then you don't need to read this article. If you’ve been reading the news lately, you would have noticed the number of Mergers, Acquisitions and retrenchments have [...]
Hiring the wrong employee could cost the organisation dearly in terms of time, productivity loss, and opportunity costs, just to name a few. What most employers fail to realise is the enormous opportunity cost bad hires can potentially cause. The amount of time, resources, and money expended mitigating the fallout and negative impact of a bad [...]
Some of you may already know, I launched my book recently on 23rd January 2016. Before my book was officially launched, I gave a copy to someone I knew. This person works in a financial institution here in Singapore and she leads a small team of people. For years, she had been struggling to get the [...]
Happy New Year! Another year has passed and a brand new year is now upon us! I know many of us have already written down our new year resolutions – feeling motivated and determined to achieve all those objectives that we failed to achieve in the year before. I also know that many of us – [...]
Many of us are already or are thinking of writing down our new year resolutions for 2016. But before you dive head-on into writing your resolutions for 2016, I would like to suggest that you take a couple of minutes to think back and ask yourself this question: What have I learnt in 2015 that I [...]
