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5 Signs A Career Change is Right for You

Change is never easy. It’s human nature to stick to the comforts of habit, but when it comes to your profession, changing careers may ……

Career Coaching & Guidance

Revamping your resume can help you to get ahead of the competition

If you are looking for a job, you probably know how much competition you are up against. In many industries today, the job market is competitive, with a large supply of good talent but a limited number of positions available, especially at the more senior levels.

Career Coaching & Guidance

Family firms need a common vision to survive across the generations

More than two thirds of the companies listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange are predominantly family owned – as are thousands of small and medium enterprises.

Career Path Planning

Congratulations On Your Humanities Degree. Now What?

Well, you’ve worked hard for the last several years and you made it through university. Those years of getting yourself out of bed and into class, completing assignments, participating in class discussions, studying for hours on end, and pulling at least a few all-nighters have finally awarded you with a degree. In humanities. Now it’s time to work even harder to find a job. Some graduates may leave campus with lucrative job offers in hand, but unfortunately, many who leave with a humanities degree do not.

Career Path Planning

5 Ways For University Students To Build Their Resumes

As university students accelerate towards graduation day, the mood can be a jumble of mixed emotions. Certainly there is excitement and nervous anticipation hanging in the air as one chapter in life comes to a close and another slowly begins to materialise on the horizon. Unfortunately, as university ends, it is also this new beginning that can fill soon-to-graduate university students with fear, dread, and anxiety. Graduating from university means entering the competitive “real” world where finding a good job is key to success in life.

Career Path Planning

4 Ways to get the job when you’re not the ideal candidate

If you are a strong candidate with skills that match at least some of the requirements, you may…

Career Coaching & Guidance

Managers need to understand the generations

Most teams or departments in Hong Kong are likely to comprise of four different generations: traditionalists, baby…

Career Path Planning

5 Ways to achieve the elusive Work-Life Balance

Achieving a healthy work-life balance is an elusive feat many people have yet to reach. No matter how hard people may try, effectively juggling professional responsibilities and familial or social commitments continue to prove to be a near-impossible dream. As technology has increased the functionality of business, more and more employees are seeking better assurances in maintaining a balanced work-life schedule.

Productivity Tips

4 Tips to build friendships at work and increase productivity

Who says you can’t mix business and pleasure? According to a survey by finance and accounting recruitment specialist Robert Half International…..

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.

Career Coaching & Guidance

Play to your strengths

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

Career Coaching & Guidance

Why all the hoops?

Anyone who has applied for a job over the past few years will have noticed an increase in the number of interviews they have to attend. The general consensus from a number of surveys is that the average length of the interview process has risen from 13 days in 2009 to 23 days in 2013.