Today I drove pass the WD building in PJ (next to LDP) and couldn’t help but noticed that the sign “Best Employer of 2001″ is still there after all these years. Back then (2003-2005), that sign was quite a big talking point since there weren’t many best employers around this area and that sign alone [...]
Categories: Business
Tagged: achievement, award, best, company, decoration, employer, IT, opinion, recognition, reputation, success, talk, why
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- February 25, 2009 – 8:55 am
- Author:
- By Alvin Lim
Last year, before the recession hits the States, I met up with some friends and we started talking about small company vs large company. Most of them say that large companies will be better since they’re more stable, consistent and productive. The small ones, to them, are too risky since these companies might suffer from [...]
Categories: Business,Management
Tagged: best, Business, change, company, employer, important, IT, job, large, mentality, opinion, product, recession, retrench, right, small, spending, talk, thinking, time, versus, world
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- February 23, 2009 – 9:23 am
- Author:
- By Alvin Lim
The number of jobs available is slowly decreasing. Companies are cutting cost – some do it by freezing recruitment while some do it by retrenching people or “persuading” people to leave. In the end, the supply and demand of the job market takes a drastic change with the demand for job going up, but the [...]
Categories: Business,Career
Tagged: 2009, Business, Career, employer, hiring, job, market, recruitment
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- January 14, 2009 – 9:16 am
- Author:
- By Alvin Lim
Reputation is just like a relationship between 2 friends – it’s fragile. Your company start off with nothing, without anyone knowing who you are or what you do. It’s just like you meeting with another stranger. At your first meeting, you wouldn’t know who he is or what he does, and same goes to him. [...]
Categories: Business,Management
Tagged: Business, company, Employee, employer, human resource, leadership, management, marketing, reputation
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- October 17, 2008 – 11:41 am
- Author:
- By Alvin Lim