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Navigating the career map
This week, we look at how to create a career “map” that will help you plan out your career in the long term, writes Marc Burrage.
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Take time to decide the path you wish to travel
After I graduated from university, I worked for a boutique market research firm for a year. I am now thinking of switching to an industry that is more professional and more promising.
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Networking can offer the key to science job
Since returning to Hong Kong in 2009 I have become badly stuck looking for a job and, worse, have not even …
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Take steps to stop job hops
We have seen how jobseekers today have higher expectations about the kind of employment they …
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Picky jobseekers want to find out much more
Today’s jobseekers are focused on more than remuneration and quick progression when they look for their next …
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Make sure you have the skills for consultancy
With three years of experience notched up in the HR field, I would like to explore changing my career to management consultancy as the next …
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Is a one-year contract worth risking my future?
I’m working for a public organisation on a three-year contract. It’s a permanent position and I recently received …
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Network for career control
Last week, we dealt with some of the questions you need to ask yourself if you are to have full control over your …
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Shape your own future
In last week’s Survival Tips, we examined some of the steps you need to take in order to have full control of your …
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Knowing how to take control
To manage means to “control, handle or cope”. Hence, career management is the ability to control your life, handle the demands of working and living, and coping with …
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Never too late to progress with the right skills
I’m in my 40s and currently work for a large corporation in Canada. I have two years’ experience in finance and over 20 years in application development …
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Profile yourself to find the career that suits you
I’ve been working for almost two years as an interpreter and translator. However, I would really like to change …