I am pretty sure you’ve heard of this line before. It’s either from you or from someone you know. Let’s face it, human beings are greedy by nature and all of us will want a better salary. That’s why when you write down your expected salary, it is important to write honestly and don’t regret. [...]
Categories: Career
Tagged: Career, job, Money, opinion, pay, salary, working
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- November 21, 2008 – 9:23 am
- Author:
- By Alvin Lim
Are you going to attend an interview soon? Or are you actually planning to apply for a job in a certain company? One way or the other, it is very important for you to find out about the new company. Why? 2 reasons. Worth a try? You need to know whether the company’s financial result [...]
Categories: Career
Tagged: background, Career, company, interview, job, preparation, profile, recruitment
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- November 20, 2008 – 9:32 am
- Author:
- By Alvin Lim
How many times have we heard about companies changing their names especially those established ones? And how much do you think they have to spend to do that? Thousands and maybe millions. Well, unless you are just a small company or a startup who nobody knows. Otherwise, it’ll cost a fortune with all those new [...]
Categories: Business,Marketing
Tagged: Business, company, corporate, finance, management, marketing, Money
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- November 19, 2008 – 10:02 am
- Author:
- By Alvin Lim
A friend of mine complained to me about her idiotic colleague few days ago. She’s the HR executive in her company. This idiot is a loner in the office due to his unique characteristics – tai chi master, boastful (quite extreme, according to her), childish, loves to laugh at people’s weaknesses, and other things you [...]
Categories: Leadership,Management
Tagged: Career, corporate, HR, job, leadership, management, office, people, recruitment
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- November 18, 2008 – 9:47 am
- Author:
- By Alvin Lim
One of my earlier jobs was in local IT firm, working as a junior developer. At that time, I was pretty young and inexperienced. I signed the employment agreement without noticing that it is actually one-sided and unfair to the employee (me). The notice period they have to give me if they were to terminate [...]
Categories: General
Tagged: agreement, Career, contract, Employee, employment, job, one-sided, unfair
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- November 17, 2008 – 10:18 am
- Author:
- By Alvin Lim