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8 Tips to Get the Company Bonus You Deserved
How to Get Promoted

8 Tips to Get the Company Bonus You Deserved

Every good employee reaches a point where they need to ask their manager for a well-deserved year-end bonus. Whether it’s annually, or every few years, asking for a bonus can be a dreaded occasion. Employers will not always freely give out bonuses for a variety of reasons. An employee who knows their worth and knows they are due for a bonus needs to muster up the courage to speak to their boss and make a strong case for why they deserve to receive a bonus. There are tips that will help the process go smoothly and have you smiling all the way to the bank.

Practical Career Advice From Top Employers
How to Get Promoted

Practical Career Advice From Top Employers

Navigating a successful professional path is extremely challenging. When it comes to overall career goals, most people tend to look upwards to positions in senior level management with higher salaries and greater responsibilities for guidance and inspiration. While there isn’t always a sure-fire path to success, many prominent business leaders, CEOs, and other senior executives, past and present, have been open and vocal about what they believe is the best career advice out there for those looking to climb the corporate ladder to greater heights.

Prepare your stories before the interview
Job Search in Hong Kong

Prepare your stories before the interview

Hiring managers want to hear your story. They know past behaviour predicts future performance, so they ask for specific examples of times when you navigated office politics or delivered measurable results. The technique is called a behavioural job interview, and you know it is coming when you hear the prompt: “Tell me about a time when you … ” The next phrase can be almost anything: assumed a leadership role, saved your company money, disagreed with a boss, juggled multiple tasks or overcame an obstacle.

Play to your strengths
Career Coaching & Guidance

Play to your strengths

For too long, performance management and leadership development have focused on fixing managers’ weaknesses, rather…

Sell your success
Career Coaching & Guidance

Sell your success

Job candidates are regularly advised to “sell themselves” at interviews, but what does this mean in…

Keeping it fresh
Career Coaching & Guidance

Keeping it fresh

If you’re a senior manager with aspirations to lead a company, you’d do well to look beyond the bounds of your…

Tips for the would-be financial controller
Advice Columnist

Tips for the would-be financial controller

Becoming a financial controller can be a springboard to a management position. Finance directors and higher executives increasingly rely on financial controllers to assume responsibility for internal finances.

Lead and inspire
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.

New Start-up – Ready for the Challenge ?
Advice Columnist

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.