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Despite the challenges in a tough economic situation, CEO of MSIG Holdings (Asia), Alan Wilson, says it is now a "perfect opportunity" to pick up talent for the future.According to Wilson, 2008 profits for MSIG remain in the "comfortable" margins. However, the recession will throw up several new challenges for the organisation which include an increase in the number of …
Singapore’s Community Development Councils (CDCs) have been seeing an increase in the number of people seeking job help and social assistance over the last few months.The majority of them …
UNDERGRADUATE May Zhang has given herself six months to find a job in the corporate world upon graduation; failing which, she may open a cafe with her boyfriend.While she will graduate onl …
SINGAPORE'S job growth has slowed significantly, with the manufacturing sector bleeding jobs for the first time since 2003. Preliminary estimates released on Friday morning by the Manpower Ministry showed 26,900 jobs in all added from October to December last year, half of the gains of 55,700 in the previous quarter. The whole of last year saw 227,200 jobs being added, down …
Marina Bay Sands is ramping up its hiring of retrenched professionals who have undergone retraining under the Professional Conversion Programme.This comes after the Skills Programme for Up …
Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said Singapore has strengths to weather the current recession and he called on Singaporeans to brace themselves for a challenging Year of the Ox.In his lunar new year message released on Sunday morning, the Prime Minister said there is no need to be despondent about the downturn."Singapore has strengths which will let us outlast this …
A S$20.56 billion Resilience Package, with the key message on keeping jobs.1. Cut in corporate tax rate from 18% to 17% wef YA2010. The budget has even sharpened Singapore's cost-competitiveness by cutting the corporate income tax rate by 1ppt to 17%, which makes Singapore's tax rate compare favourably with Hong Kong's 16.5%.2. S$800m property tax rebates for industrial and …
Many economic studies have shown that university graduates who enter the workforce during recessions earn substantially less than those who start work when the economy is growing. Researchers Philip Oreopoulos, Till von Wachter and Andrew Heisz - of the University of Toronto, Columbia University and Statistics Canada, respectively - studied Canadian university graduates …
In almost all firms there is a need to measure recruitment to find out if the way Human Resources handles manpower is fit for the needs of the organization. It is a sad fact of reality that not all people who are hired will succeed in the job. This has something to do with profiling the right kind of people that will fit the role of job. To begin with, one must look at the …
More youths aged under 30 will start to feel the impact of the recession as the year progresses.The unemployment rate for this group of youths was 4.1 per cent recently but NTUC said it is …
Plans to hire 4,500 people in the health industry has been brought forward in a bid to provide jobs for the workers who got retrenched.The range of jobs provided includes health-care professionals, like nurses and pharmacists to administrative positions like the counter staff and telephone operators, with recruitment taking place effectively. The original plan was to hire …
MORE Singapore companies would consider freezing salaries rather than axing staff when trying to deal with the financial crisis. The approach from firms here differs from that of other Asia Pacific nations, according to a survey conducted last year by global consulting firm Watson Wyatt. 'In terms of salary freeze and slowdown in salary increment, the percentages from …
SOME 2,000 people turned up to vie for 200 jobs up for grabs at a new ultra-luxury hotel at Sentosa on Friday. The Capella is due to open on March 8 and has started a two-day walk-in recruitment drive for managerial and rank-and-file vacancies. The drive was jointly organised by the Singapore Work Development Agency (WDA) …
Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong Thursday calls on Singaporeans to work as long as they can and keep themselves occupied after formal retirement to adjust to longer lifespan. The prime minister said in a conference on reinventing retirement that because a larger proportion of the country's population will be elderly, people will have to re-calibrate the balance …
An Australian state is offering internationally what it calls "the best job in the world" -- earning a top salary for lazing around a beautiful tropical island for six months.The job pays 150,000 Australian dollars (105,000 US dollars) and includes free airfares from the winner's home country to Hamilton Island on the Great Barrier Reef, Queensland's state government said …
TNS and Gallup International have just released the results of the survey, "The Voice of the People End of the Year Survey" today.The survey polled people across 46 countries between October and December 2008 about their employment prospects. In Asia Pacific, more than 11,000 people aged between 15 and 64 participated in the survey and of these, 1,000 came from Singapore.The …
MUSLIMS in Singapore should not rule out working in the upcoming integrated resorts (IRs), as long as the jobs are not in the gaming sections, said Minister-in-charge of Muslim Affairs Yaacob Ibrahim. This issue has been discussed extensively with the Mufti, the highest Islamic authority in Singapore, and other religious leaders, he added. He said he was confident that …
The Singapore Workforce Development Agency (WDA) works with the Community Development Councils (CDC) to operate five career centres in Singapore. These career centres provide a range of services including career-personality profiling, job referrals, advice on training and enhancement of job search related skills.The career centres will beef up their resources to assist more …
The Skills Programme for Upgrading and Resilience (SPUR) was implemented on 1 December 2008. Riding on the encouraging response from employers and workers, and taking on board feedback from companies and unions, the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) and Singapore Workforce Development Agency (WDA) have expanded the list of courses under SPUR to enhance its relevance to employers and …
Mr Lim Boon Heng, Minister in the Prime Minister's Office, highlighted the plight of contract and part-time workers two Saturdays ago, when he pointed out that Singapore can expect this pool of employees to swell in the economic downturn.The trend worries him as these workers rarely receive social security coverage, such as medical benefits and contributions to Central …
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