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Only 1 in 10 employers in Singapore don’t intend to award raises in the coming year
SINGAPORE (March 21): In spite of an increasingly challenging economic outlook for the year, nearly half (46%) of Singaporean employers are still expecting to award salary increases of between 3-6% during their next salary review.
March 21, 2017
Global Markets
Surfing trendsetters can make an economic splash
SYDNEY (MARCH 21): The discovery of a new surf spot allows a lucky board rider to commune with nature unfettered. Yet the inevitable influx of surfing hordes can also spur a burst of economic growth, according to new research.
March 21, 2017
Expect hiring in Singapore to increase for these 3 sectors in 2Q17
SINGAPORE (March 14): Job seekers in Singapore can expect to benefit from a generally modest hiring pace from April to June this year.
March 14, 2017
Tech
One reason staffers quit Google's car project? The company paid them so much
SAN FRANCISCO (Feb 14): For the past year, Google's car project has been a talent sieve, thanks to leadership changes, strategy doubts, new startup dreams and rivals luring self-driving technology experts. Another force pushing people out? Money. A lo
February 14, 2017
Singapore registers lowest labour force growth in 2016 in over a decade as layoffs continue to rise
SINGAPORE (Jan 26): Preliminary estimates from the Ministry of Manpower’s (MOM’s) latest Labour Market Advance Release have indicated that 2016 was once again a year of increased layoffs and redundancies among Singapore’s residents and citizens as t
January 26, 2017
Looking for a new job? These 3 industries could be hiring next year
SINGAPORE (Dec 20): Over a third of companies in Singapore are planning to hire in 2017, with 60% of them expected to hire at the middle-management level and 63% of them to offer a 1% to 5% salary increase.
December 20, 2016
Investing strategies
Does your company have this key business strategy in place?
SINGAPORE (Nov 22): As both a woman and a person of colour, Erika Irish Brown spent over 15 years of her career in the financial sector feeling fortunate to have been given what she saw as equal opportunities as everyone else in the US.
November 22, 2016
Amid Singapore’s slowing economy, these life science professions are still high in demand
SINGAPORE (Nov 21): Despite Singapore’s slowing economy and volatile economic environment, the city state’s maturing life science industry continues to report a strong demand for talent, says Randstad Singapore.
November 21, 2016
Singapore sees highest second quarter layoffs since 2009
SINGAPORE (Sept 15): Employment growth in Singapore remained low in the first half of 2016 while unemployment and redundancies have risen, says the Ministry of Manpower (MOM), which expects total workforce growth ahead to remain moderated given demographi
September 15, 2016
Where have Southeast Asia’s leaders gone?
SINGAPORE (Aug 31): Finding suitable candidates to fill leadership positions may be critical to a company’s success, but it is not going to get easier until organisations begin shifting their thinking on leadership, says LinkedIn Talent Solutions.
August 31, 2016