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Easy Ways to Improve your Leadership Skills
How to Get Promoted

Easy Ways to Improve your Leadership Skills

Are you a good leader? It’s not an easy task to effectively lead a team. We have summarized 6 core values on how you can improve your leadership skills. Are you fit in the characters on the checklist? Find it out.

Interview Tips From Top Recruiters
Job Search in Hong Kong

Interview Tips From Top Recruiters

Are you ready for the interview right now? Make sure you are well- prepared before you leave. Take the last tour with our top recruiters’ advices before you knock the manager’s door…

How To Work Better By Working Less
Productivity Tips

How To Work Better By Working Less

If you want to work better, abandon the idea that working longer hours means that you are a sure shot for employee of the month. To be more productive at work, try some of these ideas instead…

Using team coaching to resolve tension in your unit and boost productivity
Career Coaching & Guidance

Using team coaching to resolve tension in your unit and boost productivity

Within weeks of starting her job as general manager with her new employer, Alice came to appreciate her team members’ high level of individual competence, and yet, something seemed not quite right. For example, during her team meetings, she noticed that each of them focused strongly on making their area of responsibility look good and most of them would get defensive if any critique or suggestion for improvement came up. In fact, she felt that the lack of cohesiveness and team spirit posed a barrier to what the team could achieve.

How to Be More Likeable in the Office
How to Get Promoted

How to Be More Likeable in the Office

The office environment is a tricky place. Although your colleagues may not be the people you would choose to spend your time with……

Create a Better Work Life Balance
Advice Columnist

Create a Better Work Life Balance

Work life balance has become a corporate trend in recent years. Much talk has been given to the need for companies and managers to offer their employees……

OL是咁嘔血的
Advice Columnist

OL是咁嘔血的

現實OL是一心多用身兼多職,加埋要同幾百種性格「好得意」嘅上司同事供應商協調溝通,忙起嚟、出事起嚟,閒閒哋嘔幾萬噸血,都仲要你彈返起身繼續做…

Cover Letter Cliches to Avoid
Job Search in Hong Kong

Cover Letter Cliches to Avoid

Cover letters can be challenging. There are plenty of advice and warnings about what to avoid in your resume, but the cover letter tends to be overlooked. Writing a cover letter is an ideal way for a potential employee to show off their talents and personality so it’s important to make the most of this opportunity. It should be professional, but still allow some of your unique qualities to shine. The worst thing a potential employee can do is sound like a robot, and there are cliche phrases that make employers cringe.