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Be confident in your body language in interviews

Body language is a form of non-verbal communication, and it is vital to communicate effectively in a job interview. During an interview, you will inadvertently give out non-verbal cues, and those can make more of an impact than the words you use. Confidence is typically conveyed through body language, as is your stress level. An employer will get a sense of your personality and how you perform under pressure by gauging your body language.So, how can you ensure you are conveying the right messages?

Job Search in Hong Kong

The Best Ways to Showcase Your Leadership and Management Skills During Your Interview

It’s the little things that matter in the big interviews. We explore the 5 best ways to showcase your leadership and management skills when it really counts

Advice Columnist

「根底中心」幫你助言起行

Human Design (簡稱HD )發現了每個人都擁有九個能量中心，懂得看，一定會看各個能量中心有沒有「著燈」( Defined )。「著燈」就代表著你那個能量中心的燈火，提供著免費的環保能源，不分日晚地照亮著你。未「著燈」( Undefined )的中心，不妨Hea著「等電」到囉！

Productivity Tips

7 Horrible habits productive employees should avoid

Whether it’s nail biting or skipping breakfast, most people are aware of their bad habits in their personal lives……

Job Search in Hong Kong

16 Common interview mistakes to avoid

So you’ve landed an interview for your dream job. Now what? Don’t just wing it! Be prepared. Here are 16 common interview mistakes to avoid: Dressing inappropriately. While there are some places where the dress code is casual, don’t assume you can show up in jeans and a t-shirt. A suit is really the only acceptable attire for a job interview. Even if the interviewer’s dress code is relaxed, wearing a suit will show that you are serious about the job.

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Experience sharing on career building!

Ir Alicia An is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Energy and Environment, City University of Hong Kong and joined the HKIE in September 2014. Living and working in the Asia’s most cosmopolitan city, Hong Kong, as a female professional engineer, Korean expat, and teacher, Alicia is striving for balance in career life. This is about experience sharing on career building as an environmental engineer.

Advice Columnist

Finding the right ingredients for a successful career: Ir Victor Cheung

For many Hong Kong engineers who finished secondary school in the 1970s, choosing a career path was straightforward. Having picked the science stream in secondary school, aspiring youngsters who did not like their chemistry or biology as much as their maths and physics would choose engineering rather than the medical sciences in university. Ir Victor Cheung, however, did not have that choice. Growing up the son of a cook, he seemed destined for a life in a commercial kitchen too – until two mentors stepped in.

Career Coaching & Guidance

Compliance is hot

The recent heavy fines imposed on global banks for violating United States sanctions has put the financial industry on alert about the risks associated with exposure to money laundering. Banks have responded by hiring thousands of new compliance experts and are spending millions of dollars to improve their anti-money laundering (AML) programmes.

Career Coaching & Guidance

What’s your story?

The word “interview” conjures up feelings of apprehension, nervousness, and in some cases, downright fear. This is exacerbated by the fact that most people tend to find themselves in interview-preparation mode only when they are actively job searching, and so they feel additional pressure to make a positive impact.

Advice Columnist

Will Power to Scale Mt. Everest

Accidents happened in almost all marathon races. Is marathon dangerous? Not at all if people have sufficient training and do not have inherit disease. A young man who was a sport enthusiast ran his first half marathon years ago.

Career Coaching & Guidance

Lead and inspire

Charismatic executives are not just born, they are made. If you have recently been promoted and are now leading a team, you have the chance to transform yourself from a competent manager into a true leader. But it’s all too easy for leaders to slip unconsciously into poor behaviour without realising it.

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New Start-up – Ready for the Challenge ?

Many mountain climbers visiting high altitudes for the first time would be eager to know more about their Acute Mountain Sickness (AMS) susceptibility in advance. Although various tests like VO2 Max, SO2 at simulated altitude are derived, the correlations are weak and are not good predictors for AMS vulnerability.