Career Coaching & Guidance
Extend your retention span
Employers need to focus on retention in response to the rising number of staff entering Hong Kong’s jobs market, writes Marc Burrage.
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Career Coaching & Guidance
Accrue experience to land finance position
How can I get into the corporate finance field? I graduated from university last year with a degree in politics and economics and worked as a management trainee in a public organisation for a year.
Career Coaching & Guidance
Sound advice can help you decide your future
Contemplating a complete career change? Mark Enticott, the latest panellist to join the Classified Post’s team of Career Doctors, can help you make the change as he shares his personal experience in …
Career Coaching & Guidance
In tough times, switch or expand hunt for a job
I hold an MSc in financial engineering (quantitative finance), from City University [of Hong Kong], as well a bachelor’s in accounting, with around six years’ commercial banking experience from a top-tier …
Career Coaching & Guidance
Postgrad diploma viable alternative to master’s
I am a 2011 graduate from HKU who majored in engineering and am currently working for a Big Four company as a …
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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 …
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To engage staff, it’s good to talk and use rewards
Talent engagement describes the involvement of people at all levels in an organisation in a positive two-way …
Career Coaching & Guidance
Gatekeepers who reduce risk
When people think about investment banking, they picture bankers shouting into their phones buying and selling all sorts of exotic …
Career Coaching & Guidance
Playing a supporting role
The popular image of a personal assistant – as portrayed by Hollywood – is of a poorly-paid, badly-treated employee routinely berated by …
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Music lover’s maverick moves.
The traditional view is that career success requires early focus on a chosen area and linear progress …