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How to Get Promoted
Practical Career Advice From Top Employers
Navigating a successful professional path is extremely challenging. When it comes to overall career goals, most people tend to look upwards to positions in senior level management with higher salaries and greater responsibilities for guidance and inspiration. While there isn’t always a sure-fire path to success, many prominent business leaders, CEOs, and other senior executives, past and present, have been open and vocal about what they believe is the best career advice out there for those looking to climb the corporate ladder to greater heights.
Productivity Tips
4 Tips to build friendships at work and increase productivity
Who says you can’t mix business and pleasure? According to a survey by finance and accounting recruitment specialist Robert Half International…..
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3 Quick tips for acing a job interview
Whether you are a recent graduate or a seasoned professional, job interviews can be daunting. A careless or inappropriate comment could cost you the opportunity. Andrew Morris, Managing Director, Greater China, Robert Half International, offers some useful guidance on what not to say to a hiring manager during an interview.
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3 Things you should never say to a hiring manager
Whether you are a recent graduate or a seasoned professional, job interviews can be daunting. A careless or inappropriate comment could cost you the opportunity. Andrew Morris, Managing Director, Greater China, Robert Half International, offers some useful guidance on what not to say to a hiring manager during an interview.
Productivity Tips
8 Ways to Better Time Management
Time is an elusive commodity. There simply isn’t enough time in any given day to do all the things you need and want to do. Fortunately, there is a way to relieve all the stress that can result from poor time management.
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What to include in your job application
You have seen the job you want and you are keen to make a good first impression with your application to secure an interview. So what are the key points you should cover? A good place to start is to write a great cover letter talking about what you would bring to the company, role and opportunity. Link your skills and work experience to why you are suitable for the job by including a few achievements from your last two roles that show how you added value to the organisations.
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Prepare your stories before the interview
Hiring managers want to hear your story. They know past behaviour predicts future performance, so they ask for specific examples of times when you navigated office politics or delivered measurable results. The technique is called a behavioural job interview, and you know it is coming when you hear the prompt: “Tell me about a time when you … ” The next phrase can be almost anything: assumed a leadership role, saved your company money, disagreed with a boss, juggled multiple tasks or overcame an obstacle.
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Getting your résumé right
Hong Kong is known for its fast-paced working culture, where things need to be done quickly. As a result, employers here spend less time reading CVs than the global average……
Career Coaching & Guidance
Don’t blur lines between social media jargon and work speak
How do you view the sender of a work-related email who writes “TTYS” (talk to you soon) or “AFAIK"…
How to Get Promoted
5 Tips on how to deliver bad news to your boss
Every now and then, something happens that the boss just has to know about…
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【物理自療】準媽媽的體適能訓練
大家還記得「Relaxin」是甚麼嗎？女士在懷孕期間會分泌放鬆激素以助盆骨周圍的軟組織放鬆，Relaxin就是其中一種有助分娩順利的放鬆激素。這種激素聽上去似是天賜恩物，但事實上仍然會有其他潛在的問題。 懷孕期間，因為這種激素的刺激會令你身體的肌肉組織放鬆，但同時別忘記孕婦的體重亦都會隨著時間慢慢遞增。孕婦的身體多了一個小朋友的體重之外，自身的體重亦都會增加，在兩者體重的雙重影響之下，整個身體的支撐需求更大，對已經放鬆了的肌肉組織來說是一種超負荷，因此會產生其他痛症，這就是我們經常聽到孕婦很容易會有下背痛和盆骨痛的主要原因。 面對這些痛症問題，我們會有不同的對策。其一，我們可以使用托腹帶，幫助承托腹部壓力；其二，可以進行一些簡單的下腹運動，特別是針對腹部支撐的主要肌肉 ── 腹橫肌的訓練。此外亦可從生活習慣著手，留意站姿和坐姿時的腰椎弧度不要過度，座椅要盡量選擇有適合靠背、站立的時候需要收緊腹部、走路時步幅亦不宜過大、穿著的鞋履要具備良好的吸震功能，千萬不要穿高跟鞋，因為高跟鞋會有一定的不穩性及令腰椎弧度變大。