Career Coaching & Guidance
Desperate for some direction
I have been working as a legal secretary for the past 6-7 months but this is definitely not the…
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Career Coaching & Guidance
The interview gets reviewed
If your résumé has landed you a face-to-face job interview, you need to be able to sell yourself to the interview …
Career Coaching & Guidance
Back pat can go a long way
In this final instalment in our series on effective communication in the workplace, we focus on the need for …
Career Coaching & Guidance
Harnessing the power of ‘e-preciation’
When you step into a department store or visit the websites of different companies, it is easy to spot channels to file complaints, be it via …
Career Coaching & Guidance
The company you keep
Despite the positive aspects of maintaining friendships at work, such relationships can occasionally…
Career Coaching & Guidance
Social media’s job frontier
Whether you’re a fresh graduate or in the early stages of your career, social media can play an important role in your …
Career Coaching & Guidance
The secret of punctuality is planning
Getting to work on time is more important than most people think. Despite popular belief, your boss is aware of what time you arrive in the morning and leave …
Career Coaching & Guidance
From trash collector to tycoon
Some 20 years ago, a teenage Micky Yan Wai-kiu was collecting trash at a public housing estate when a mother and her whimpering child passed by. “If you don’t study, you’ll end up collecting trash …
Productivity Tips
3 Good things about prioritising your tasks
Prioritising your tasks will help you complete your projects on time. This may even give you an extra hour to assist your manager and …
Career Coaching & Guidance
Be productive by knowing which is first, last and never
Prioritising your tasks will help you complete your projects on time. This may even give you an extra hour to assist your manager and …
Career Coaching & Guidance
All work with no workout is unhealthy
The best way to stay active at work is to set aside a time during the day to train, either on your own or with …
Career Coaching & Guidance
You are only a click away from court
New job, day one: Before you log on with that new username you’re struggling to remember, pause to think how your use of IT affects …