National newspaper 'The Straits Times' carried this headline in today's edition [26 May 2014] "Degree Holders Most Vulnerable to Retrenchment'. This is quite scary. It further reported that 62% of those retrenched found jobs within a year. This further confirms my view that "There is no such a thing as job security."
Those with polytechnic diploma and professional qualifications have a slight advantage. 65% of them found jobs within a year and 71% of those with secondary education did find jobs within the same period.
The job market in Singapore is not quite rosy and there hosts of reasons why the retrenched find it much harder to find a job.
Two key factors that these people need to be aware of and understand are:
1. A strategic jobsearch plan
2. An outstanding, market-centric resume.
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Friday 23 May 2014
LAUNCH OF CORPORATE FACEBOOK PAGE
The official Facebook corporate page of Successful Resumes Singapore was launched on Friday, 23 May 2014.
Please visit and like our page. Follow us and read our posts and links, and we are sure our fans and friends will find these posts and links informative and helpful when embarking on their Jobsearch campaign.
Please visit and like our page. Follow us and read our posts and links, and we are sure our fans and friends will find these posts and links informative and helpful when embarking on their Jobsearch campaign.
Monday 19 May 2014
NEW FACEBOOK CORPORATE PAGE
We at Successful Resumes Singapore will be rolling out a new corporate page for Successful Resumes Singapore this week. Do follow us and LIKE us. We will post informational articles and inspiring write-ups on career change and jobsearch. We hope our fans, friends and readers will benefit from this new initiative.
Friday 2 May 2014
JOB SECURITY OR CAREER PERMANENCY
Are you aware that an average working professional changes his or her job once every four years? Amongst the reasons, redundancy, company downsizing or a company moving offshore seem to top the list. Or simply, your job function has been eliminated. Your job has disappeared. Gone are those days - during your parents' time when hard work, sacrifice, dedication was a simple formula for long term job security and a predictable climb up the ladder of success. If you subscribe to this precept in your career planning, you will be totally disappointed. Your employers still expect hard work, sacrifice and dedication from you but for a different motive - to boost the company's profit profile. You can be replaced. Your job can be eliminated and replaced by a computerised gizmo.
The job security and steady, predictable professional growth that your parents enjoyed as a norm is now a thing of the past. It's now history. You have to wake up and face a new reality in career planning. We live in a time of immense change. We now face a totally different economic scenario. You have to be fully and mentally prepared to change job or career once every four years or sooner.
So, what's next?
Embark on a strategic life-long career planning now!
www.sucessfulresumssingaoe.com
The job security and steady, predictable professional growth that your parents enjoyed as a norm is now a thing of the past. It's now history. You have to wake up and face a new reality in career planning. We live in a time of immense change. We now face a totally different economic scenario. You have to be fully and mentally prepared to change job or career once every four years or sooner.
So, what's next?
Embark on a strategic life-long career planning now!
www.sucessfulresumssingaoe.com
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