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How to Manage Your Career and Stay Relevant
Administrative professionals have come a long way since the days of merely supporting the line managers and their bosses. Whether working as a personal or executive assistant or as an office manager, you are in a career that has grown in leaps and bounds. |
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Making Jobs Relevant
Job Re-creators don’t just re-brand and re-image job positions, they also increase productivity and efficiency by professionalising existing standards, explains Ms Lee Eer Ling of NTUC |
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What are the kinds of jobs available in the accounting industry? How does one embark on a career in this line? In this issue of Industry Focus, we meet up with Ms Elaine Chong, Assistant Director – Special Projects of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Singapore (ICPAS) who tells us all these and more. |
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Banking with a Passion
An Industrial Relations Officer establishes and maintains a win-win partnership in the workplace between employers and employees. We learn more from Mr Jeremy Lee, Principal Industrial Relations Officer at the Singapore Teachers’ Union. |
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Always The Right Call
Angie Tay has a wealth of experience in the Call Centre industry and she is a Client Services Director at Teledirect |
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Pan Pacific Hotel
Located in the vibrant and scenic Marina Bay area, Pan Pacific Singapore is a leading Five Star hotel that was awarded the World's Leading Business Hotel at the World Travel Awards 2007.
We highlight three of her warm and professional staff here.
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Excellent Time for Spa Industry
Because of constant manpower shortage situation, it’s an excellent time for those who want to serve in the spa industry, top entrepreneur and spa owner Ms Siti Ong reveals |
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Making Sure Everyone Wins
What is it like working in the largest bank in Singapore? Or in one of the largest financial services groups in Asia for that matter? In this issue of Industry Focus, we meet up with Mr Philip Lim, Managing Director & Head - DBS Franchise & Strategy (Consumer Banking) who shares his insight on this as well as some tips on how one can build a career in the banking sector. |
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Helping Make your Life Great
Harold Ng is a Chartered Financial Consultant and Group Manager at Great Eastern. Harold has an illustrious career with Great Eastern that spans almost two decades. |
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A career as a financial consultant offers variety and challenge. So says Ms Yee Siew Eng, Director, Human Resources of Prudential Assurance Company Singapore (Pte) Limited as she shares some insights on the insurance industry as well as advice for those considering a career in this line of work. |
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Creating Great Landscapes
Ellen Wong is an NParks scholar and works as a Landscape Architect. She shares about her passion for creating spaces where people and nature can interact in harmony. |
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No Ordinary Tree Climber
Ow Siew Ngim, is an Arborist and Manager (Streetscape) with NParks. She reveals more about her unique job and what it’s like to climb trees. |
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A Love for Plants
Alan Tan is a Horticulturist and Assistant Director at NParks, and he says that “NParks is an option that I would highly recommend to fresh graduates who aspire to a great career in an organization that offers them a wide and interesting scope of work, many opportunities to grow and develop themselves, and also enables them to appreciate the beauty of plants and nature at the same time.” |
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Conserving with Care
“I'm really passionate about marine conservation and hence having the opportunity to work as a Senior Conservation Officer in Chek Jawa is really a dream come true for me to pursue my passion” , says How Choon Beng, Senior Outreach Officer, National Parks (NParks) |
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Call People with a Smile
Events is a tough industry — you need passion, determination and eye for every little detail to survive, says Singapore Parties’ Lazio |
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There's a Fulfilling Career in Retail
it’s a challenging, innovative and growing industry that teaches you skills you can use in the real world, according to Assistant Store Manager Philip Ow |
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Hiring For Success
Irene Ang shares about her role as a recruitment consultant and how it’s great to work in a company that was voted among the top ten recruitment providers for 2007 by HR Magazine |
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Your Beauty Is Our Business
“Customers these days are no fools,” begins David, “Singaporeans are one of the most discerning customers and they want to know what is in your product. |
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We are Looking for Stayers
It's a challenging, innovative and growing industry that teaches you skills you can use in the real world, according to Assistant Store Manager Philip Ow
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Riding the Tourism Boom
Kenneth Ng works at Universal Studios Singapore, which is one of the upcoming tourist attractions at Resorts World at Sentosa.
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