显示标签为“Career 事业”的博文。显示所有博文
显示标签为“Career 事业”的博文。显示所有博文

2013年7月21日星期日

Jobs Central Career Fair 2013





Jobs Central Career Fair 2013
Suntec Convention Centre
Hall 401 - 403
24 - 25 August
10am - 7pm

Website

2013年7月12日星期五

2013年7月6日星期六

Find skills courses on the go

Find skills courses on the go



AT YOUR FINGERTIPS: The free Learn SG app is available on iOS and Android devices. (PHOTO: SINGAPORE WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT AGENCY)

Professionals, managers and executives are now able to find and access information about skill-upgrading courses more easily with a new version of the Learn SG course-search mobile app.

The free app by the Singapore Workforce Development Agency (WDA) now has a "course search" category. It is a search function that lets users type in key words to view a range of courses.

Mr Wong Hong Kuan, chief executive of WDA, said he hoped the app would "encourage more individuals to proactively upgrade their skills and engage in a lifetime of learning".

Those who use the app have access to information on over 1,100 Workforce Skills Qualifications (WSQ) courses in Singapore, covering categories from customer service, human resources and engineering to sales, marketing, design, and media and communications.

The WSQ is a national credential system that trains, develops, assesses and recognises individuals for key competencies that companies look for in potential employees.

WSQ courses are conducted at Continuing Education and Training (CET) institutes such as the Electronics Industries Training Centre.

Said Mr Wong: "The enhanced Learn SG app aims to provide individuals - in particular, the more-mobile-savvy ones - with a more dynamic experience where they can plug into the latest CET information, anytime and anywhere."

Another new feature of the app has users take a personality test or answer a questionnaire. With that information, the app recommends courses and possible career pathways.

There is also the new journal function, with which executives are able to take notes, either with text entries, or by using images or audio recordings. These notes can be shared with friends.

The app allows files, including notes, to be shared with others via online storage service Dropbox.

The new version of the app, which has been available since Monday, is available for iOS and Android phones and tablets.

The original Learn SG app was launched in March last year.

As of the end of last month, Learn SG has been downloaded over 6,000 times.

~News courtesy of Omy~

2013年2月14日星期四

13 Tips to Writing the Right Resume

Coming up with a resume that makes jaded HR people sit up and take notice isn't as difficult as it sounds. The trick is to make sure it's worthwhile reading anytime. How to come up with a resume that works--now there's a dilemma shared by fresh graduates and working stiffs alike. What exactly do you put in and leave out to convince the HR manager that you will be a wise addition to their company ranks? It's a tough set of decisions to make, akin to those you make when going on a blind date: You worry yourself sick over what to wear, what perfume to use, what to say to make the other person like you.

Writing resumes is, after all, fundamentally a marketing act. It's a way to advertise yourself and stand out in the marketplace crowd of similarly competent, qualified workers.

Forget about being modest. As career specialist J. Michael Farr, writing in the online magazine VidBook.com, says, "Your resume is no place to be humble."

How then do you design yours so that it comes off not as a pompous recitation of accomplishments the way a politician may do his, but as a compelling summary of your most attractive qualities?

Remember what your resume is not for: It's not meant to get you a job. Not yet, anyway. Its mission is to get you a job interview--which would hopefully lead to a job offer. But think of that as a long-term goal. First, your resume should be able to get your foot in the door by attracting the reader's attention enough to wangle an invitation for that first big look-see.

HR practitioners thumb through countless resumes in the course of their work. How do you make yours so fetching it warrants a face-to-face encounter?

Here's a 13–step guide to constructing a professional resume that gets your foot in that all-important door.

Gather your materials. Begin by putting everything down on paper--contact details, work history and accomplishments, academic background, seminars attended, honors received, skills and proficiencies, personal details, etc. Don't worry about organizing them at this point; just make sure you don't leave out anything major, substantial, or relevant.

Pay particular attention to dates and places--say, periods of employment--as mistakes in these areas may leave an impression of sloppiness, or worse, fudging on your part.

Start with your name and contact details. Your contact information should come right at the top of the resume after your name for easy and convenient reference by the reader. Include all possible contact details: postal address, landline and mobile phone numbers, fax numbers, and e-mail address. The last one is particularly important, because in these tech-savvy times, an email address shows that you are, at the very least, computer literate.

State a job objective. A well-developed job objective statement "can be a useful way of demonstrating yourself to be a focused individual," says VirtualResume.com, an online job placement company. If you're responding to an advertisement, your job objective can be as simple as the position title (e.g., "Finance Manager").

But if you're aiming to keep your options open for other positions within a broad range of expertise, you can write a more general description of the work and corporate environment you want to focus on (e.g., "To apply my extensive experience in finance and administration to senior management positions in a highly motivated, forward-looking multicultural company").

Beware of generic objectives such as "employment in a position commensurate to my qualifications" or "to secure a regular position."

Write a brief summary of qualifications. Cynthia Buiza, an HR and corporate communications officer at a Thailand-based NGO, says she appreciates resumes that provide upfront a concise summary of the applicant's qualifications.

"I get the impression that the applicant knows his strengths very well, but more importantly, that he can help me evaluate his credentials in a paragraph or so." Such small gestures of consideration, she says, go a long way toward distinguishing a thoughtful resume from the run-of-the-mill.

Your summary of qualifications should include:

number of years of professional experience
areas of expertise and career highlights (e.g., "at 26, youngest officer promoted to manager in bank history")
unique skills and competencies (e.g., "part-time financials instructor at the SAP
Academy") other information underlining your particular qualifications for the job.

The summary's task is to make your credentials a cut above the rest. But make it brief; two or three sentences should do.

Lead with your professional experience. Unless you are a new graduate, you should begin the body of your resume with an outline of your employment history, starting with your most recent work. List down all the jobs you've had, the company names, dates of employment, titles and responsibilities.

"Don't censor this list; include everything," advises VidBook.com. A fairly straightforward rundown of your professional experience emphasizes a strong and consistent work history.

A choppy one, on the other hand, where you jump from one company to another within fairly short periods, or have unaccounted pockets of unemployment, will inevitably lead to questions about your work ethic, your sense of stability, company loyalty, etc. That's why it's best not to leave a gap. Account for everything, even for time spent outside of professional work (e.g., "1990-1993—Full-time parent," or "1998-1999--Study and travel").

Highlight concrete achievements. When you describe your professional experience, don't just enumerate your job responsibilities. A comprehensive job description will only pad up your resume; save it for the interview. Instead, emphasize any major accomplishments you had chalked up in the job. Use numbers, figures, percentages if possible.

At the September 1994 Professional Association of Resume Writers' Annual Convention in St. Louis, Missouri, USA (yes, there is such a thing), invited HR panelists were one in saying they searched for certain key words and phrases that provided a barometer of a potential candidate's qualifications. These words were active verbs that described the applicant as a results-oriented, dynamic individual, such as "accomplish, achieve, analyze, delegate, establish."

In other words, describe your job in the active, not the passive, voice. Why say, for instance, "Directly responsible for coordinating community programs" when you can say "Managed community programs with P12-million annual budget, 4 employees, and 3 office branches; streamlined program operations, increasing revenues by 20% over a period of 3 months."

Emphasize your educational preparedness. If you are a new graduate with no professional experience, lead with your academic background, honors, and extra-curricular activities. Don't believe the fillip that grades don't matter in the real world; in the beginning at least, they do.

As Fred Damian, HR partner of Ernst & Young-Manila, explains, potential employers understandably give hiring priority to young people who have more or less proven themselves in academic tasks and school-related activities. Positions of responsibility in extra-curricular and community organizations are also reliable indicators of leadership and social interaction skills, he says. Thus, make sure they're all in your resume.

Leave off the negative points. If you made it to the dean's list in the first semester of your first year and never made it again, it might be prudent not to include the details anymore. That is, unless you're prepared to admit during the interview that after a glowing start, you sputtered to a lame finish. Your educational background should always be positive and purposeful, to encourage the thinking that you are well prepared for the rigors of the corporate world.

Include special skills and competencies. This is important, particularly in a highly competitive knowledge-based industry such as IT. In your resume, include the titles, dates, venues, and agenda of all your training activities and further education, whether formal or informal. Begin with the most relevant seminars. Be specific: don't just say "assorted computer training," when you can say "training in Visual Basic, SAP," etc. If you are fluent in more than one language, mention that fact, too.

Either include references--or don't mention them. There are two schools of thought on this: One says it's necessary to include references. The other says this only lengthens the resume, and should therefore be available in another sheet of paper only upon request.

Damian, however, advises against using the standard "References available upon request" line. "It's either you mention references, or none at all," he says. "What's the point of putting in a header for 'References' only to say 'Available upon request?'" But if you do include references, include as well their complete contact details—especially telephone numbers and email addresses, and also the best time to get in touch with them.

Use personal details sparingly. In the US where job-discrimination laws are wide ranging and explicit, "a potential employer has no legal right to request information about age, sex, race, religion, marital status, health, physical appearance, or personal habits," explains The Writing Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Such statutes have yet to find root locally, but it is best to leave out as much extraneous (read: personal) information as possible from your resume, to free up limited space. These include names and occupations of parents, hobbies and interests, birthplace, etc. Reserve them for the interview proper.

Be concise. Resumes are often read in 30 seconds or less so be brief, straightforward and to the point. Use bullet points to underscore important information. Employ paragraph breaks, lines, and numbers. A standard resume should be no more than two pages—three at most if you have extensive professional experience. Beyond that, your resume needs serious editing.

Proofread! There should be no typographical or spelling errors in your resume. When using numbers, re-check decimal places or the number of zeros. Punctuation and date formats should be consistent. For example, if you write "2 February 2000" in one section, don't write "March 5, 2000" in another.

Make it an easy read. Your resume should also be visually appealing; a carelessly printed, sloppily designed resume will reflect disastrously on you. Thus, make it easy on the eye with lots of white spaces, a font no smaller than 10 in size, and at most two conservative typestyles (such as Times New Roman or Garamond). Underlined and bold text should be used sparingly--only to highlight significant information or to indicate section breaks.

Another crucial point: Use a laser printer. With cheap laser printing services available even in neighborhood computer shops nowadays, there is no excuse for jet ink-printed resumes, which easily smudge or run off. Make sure that the printing is even, with no stray marks, splotches or blurred letters.

Finally, use only high-quality bond paper--either white or off-white. Don't experiment with flashy colors such as blue or green, or with fancy graphics and visuals; stick to the simple and straightforward.

One more suggestion: Once written up, show your resume to friends or colleagues. Listen to their comments and suggestions, especially on how easy or difficult it is to find important information at a glance. Then consider all that when rewriting the final draft of your masterpiece.

by Gibbs Cadiz

2011年5月27日星期五

Realise your invention with ideas2IP

Realise your invention with ideas2IP

IF YOU have ideas for new inventions, like an iPhone rival, but do not know how to realise your ideas or lack the means to do so, help is here.

The Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (Ipos) yesterday launched an online portal called ideas2IP that will help match inventors with prospective investors in a secure environment.

For instance, investors need to be pre-qualified by Ipos and the agency will also advise inventors to sign non-disclosure agreements with investors so that their ideas will be kept secret.

Speaking on the sidelines of an event held at Resorts World Sentosa to mark the 10th anniversary of Ipos, its director-general, Ms Liew Woon Yin, said the impetus to set up the portal which is on a one-year trial arose from public feedback for a way to determine the feasibility of budding inventors' ideas.

One investor, Invention Capital, has already signed on with ideas2IP and another could come on board soon.

Mr Ryan Lee, chief executive of Xmi, the home-grown firm that created the hit X-mini capsule speakers, cheered the launch of ideas2IP. He said: "It could be refreshing to get involved in the portal...to see what ideas other people outside of the company may have, with regard to the development of our products, and to get a fresh perspective on things."

Ipos also launched a competency framework to raise the capabilities of intellectual-property professionals and practitioners.

~News courtesy of Omy~

各领域专才月薪增幅5%至15%

各领域专才月薪增幅5%至15%

加薪引才依然是今年招聘市场的主旋律。随着人力市场紧缩,求才若渴的雇主不得不调高薪金来吸引员工,对照去年行情,各行业专才月薪增幅平均介于5%至15%。

根据人力咨询公司Kelly Services的2011/12年薪金指南,最吃香的依旧是金融业人才,特别是会计专才。

其中,有3年到5年工作经验的财务会计师(financial accountant)月薪从$5000起跳,这还不包括津贴和花红;入行不到3年的审计顾问(audit consultant)月薪起码有$3000。

工程师行情也走俏,入行3年到5年的品管工程师可轻易争取到$3000以上月薪,在能源领域有5年以上经验的工程经理月薪则从$6500起。

业者透露,服务业也出现新趋势:一些面对高离职率的雇主已把招聘前线服务人员的工作外包给招聘公司,以省下不断面试和培训新员工的麻烦。

【以上新闻转载自OMY】

2011年4月30日星期六

狮城13大好雇主 工院麦当劳入榜

狮城13大好雇主 工院麦当劳入榜

本地13大顶尖雇主名单出炉,其中包括首次登榜的工艺教育学院,还有再次入榜的麦当劳快餐店。

怡安集团(Aon Corporation)旗下的环球人事部咨询子公司Anon Hewitt,自2001年起,每两年结集这个最佳雇主名单。

13 大顶尖雇主中,共有5间公司是第一次入榜,它们包括:工艺教育学院、美国运通国际(American Express International)、贝恩东南亚商务与策划咨询公司(Bain & Company South-east Asia)、达达咨询服务公司(Tata Consultancy Services)以及洲际酒店集团(InterContinental Hotels Group)。

另外8间公司则是再次入榜,他们分别是:麦当劳快餐店、丽嘉登酒店、联邦速递、喜利得(Hilti)远东、新加坡食品工业(SFI)、新加坡监狱署(Singapore Prison Service)、万豪酒店以及花旗银行。

今年,麦当劳快餐店和丽嘉登酒店也为拥有表现优秀的职员而受表扬。

颁奖典礼昨晚在文华东方大酒店举行。

《新明日报》