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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 contributing to social good.ST PHOTO: ONG WEE JIN https://str.sg/JKKQ They can read the article in full a...

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 company's meeting that day. "When it happened, I was just like, 'Oh, okay. I guess I'll close my computer now and continue eating breakfast'," Asaad told AsiaOne with a wry chuckle. The company, a business consulting firm headquar...

The public-private partnership aims to enhance the people management skills of Singapore's 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-relevant and work-ready skills for a successful mid-career switch into HR and peopled management. Design...

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-employed people. Ariel Lim reports. 2 related me...

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 Wee said: "For someone from a non-ICT (information and communications technology) background, the fi...