Career advice
Curated writing from operators, recruiters, and HR leaders — written for people building real careers in HK.
With the Hong Kong finance market maturing over the past 25 years, the earliest batch of Big Six or Big Four professionals can be traced back to the late 1980s…….
What to do when you struggling to make friends at the office? CP Jobs explores the written, and unwritten, rules of the workplace icebreaker.
今時今日乜都講中港融合，最近有朋友一肚氣跟我訴苦，說早前聘請內地公關，幫其公司在內地路演，一切都看似順利，理應按照流程表去做就萬無一失，怎料落場才知出事，說好了設置沒了，問題出了，後備方案也沒有，原來大家對某些字眼的理解有分歧，就這樣買了個很大的教訓。 我們做marketing經常夾雜著英文詞彙，proposal、deadline、event、setup、backdrop、host、agency，一講就明，毋須解釋；但當遇著內地伙伴，最好先假設對方只明白我們50%的意思，自己也要盡能力理解清楚他們的意思，不明白最好問個究竟，不要估估下，避免意外發生。以下是筆者聽過的內地marketing用語，看你又識幾多? 開會篇 上司 領導 所有老闆的稱呼 陳總/黃總 介紹自己的稱呼 小陳/小黃 Brainstorm 頭腦風暴 勁 大腕 噱頭 花頭 關鍵、要害 牛鼻子 擦鞋 拍馬屁 聊天 砍大山 故意揭穿、唱反調 吐槽 廣告篇 Go through the proposal 過一遍方案 Down to earth 接地氣 In progress / Being reviewed 走流程 High end 高端大氣上檔次
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Five years ago, while trekking in Nepal, I met a talented young woman who was at a crossroads in her career. After training as an actuary in the UK……
Employee stress is invisible and often dismissed as a cost of urban living, but employers across Asia-Pacific say it’s the leading workforce risk and it’s is certainly a problem in Hong Kong……
With the Hong Kong workforce predicted to shrink in the next three years, the country is looking toward working mothers to fill in the gap in labour force…….
Not sure how your year-end bonus is shaping up? Explore 5 key clues of whether you will need to tighten, or loosen, the purse strings this Christmas.
As a recruitment and communications strategist, part of my role is to enable candidates to come across as authentic and professional in interviews…….
提起動漫，大家一定只會異口同聲提到日本或美國，絕少人會聯想到韓國。就算聯想到，亦只圍繞Online game而不是動漫。其實韓國動漫發展亦非常成熟，只不過被K-Pop及電視電影蓋過。
Salary is an important element when considering joining a potential employer, but it should not be the only factor. We all work to get paid……
一個緊張大師嘅老闆，係好易令員工情緒崩潰。每次老闆一用力打開度玻璃門想開口嗰一刻，大家就會警覺，開始冒汗。唔係要你趕野，就係大聲夾惡搵人出氣，咪洗旨意有好野。