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The Straits Times Me & My Career: Veteran enjoys helping clients to meet environmental goals This is a new series in which individuals share their career journeys and provide an inside look into their jobs and industries. In this interview, we look at the environmental services sector. Mr Lim Chin Khuang, managing director of environmental services company Tee Environmental, says that if you already have a certain understanding of environmental issues, you’ll know that the job you do is contr...

January 21, 2021 Getting retrenched is probably the furthest thing from the mind of a young worker starting out in their career. But for 28-year-old Asaad Fazah, it became a harsh reality in May last year. A mere six months into his second job, the business graduate was abruptly notified — via email, no less — that he would no longer be required to attend the companys meeting that day. "When it happened, I was just like, Oh, okay. I guess Ill close my computer now and continue eating bre...

The public-private partnership aims to enhance the people management skills of Singapores professional workforce. Korn Ferry has joined forces with SkillsFuture Singapore (SSG) to launch a new course for developing "business-ready" HR professionals in Singapore. Launched today under the SGUnited Mid-Career Pathways Programme, the Company Training for Business-Ready Human Resource Professionals is a six-month full-time training course designed to equip about 200 participants with industry-relev...

New COVID-19 grant to be launched to help lower- to middle-income workers Toggle share menu Advertisement New COVID-19 grant to be launched to help lower- to middle-income workers A new scheme will be introduced to help Singaporeans and permanent residents affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ministry of Social and Family Development said on Wednesday (Dec 16). The COVID-19 Recovery Grant, which will be launched on Jan 18, focuses on lower- to middle-income workers and self-...

0 Engagements She built a 30-year career in the tourism industry, but when her former colleagues lost their jobs overnight, Ms Michelle Wee realised just how vulnerable her line of work was. So even as cruises started up again last month, the 54-year-old decided to get out of her comfort zone and rejected a contract role at a cruise services company. Instead, she is now on attachment at Singtel, working with fresh graduates half her age to help small and medium-sized enterprises go digital. Ms ...

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L-R: Prateek Hegde, COO, APAC & CEO, Generation Singapore; Andrea Della Mattea, President, Microsoft APAC; S Iswaran, Minister for Communications and Information & Minister-in-charge of Trade Relations; Kevin Wo, Managing Director, Microsoft Singapore; Lew Chuen Hong, Chief Executive, IMDA; and Peter Lam, Principal & CEO, Temasek Polytechnic at the launch of #GetReadySG during Microsoft’s 30th anniversary celebrations #GetReadySG is the first public-private sector collaboration with a leadin...