Tag Archives : employment

Yes, there’s more to Facebook than FarmVille. Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn may just be your passport in landing that great job of your dreams. David Grant shares to us some invaluable social media tips in The Christian Science Monitor. Firstly, get off that Mafia Wars and quit that 15th photo album on the last time you watered your garden plants. [...]

Perhaps your parents have already told you to leave the front of the computer and engage in something that goes to add to your future. Thankfully, Ashley Qualls, 19, had received this advice, but hasn’t followed to the letter. After all, was looking for a monitor that the girl began, at age 15, a business now generating almost $ 60 thousand per month [...]

A foreign professional planning to work in Singapore will need either one of the two prerequisites before transferring himself and his family to Singapore: he must have either previously inked a contract for new employment in the country, or his multinational company is cross-posting him to Singapore. For either reason and as with any expatriate employment, [...]

To work in Singapore, you need an Employment Pass that your employer or local sponsor should apply for. The Ministry of Manpower issues 4 categories of employment passes (P1 Pass, P2 Pass, Q1 Pass, and the S Pass). The Employment Pass Self-Assessment Test that you need to take will gauge your qualification for the Employment Pass. If you are not a [...]

When life and work become too cumbersome, we experience the manifestations of stress. The effects of work stress on individuals affect different people in different ways. The experience of work stress, for instance, can cause inferior performance at work, deteriorate physical health, contribute to poor mental functioning, and produce dysfunctional [...]

While the current recession may be pinching them a bit, some of the world’s billionaires see the proverbial silver lining in the global economic rain clouds. Credit their healthy outlook on money, maybe. They earned their billions, so what can stop them from earning more? – well, only the (real) end of the world, perhaps. Forbes magazine released [...]

Discrimination in the workplace is operationally defined as the unfavorable or unfair treatment that an employee suffers from due to his or her race, religion, nationality, disability, or any other legally protected characteristic and human right. Official discrimination may also be experienced by those who question authorities and report them, or [...]

There is one most obvious and logical reason why companies increase outsourcing during recession: cheap foreign labor. BPO companies especially in Asia are not threatened to be closed down even with the logically explainable protectionist policies that emerge in a time of economic meltdown. These outsourced offshore offices are confident that they [...]

When companies tighten their proverbial belts in a time of economic crisis, employment is the first to go haywire. In the U.S. alone, 4.4 million jobs are said to have been lost. In this time of recession, full-time employment has become a shaky concept. Based on a recent survey, companies are now outsourcing more tasks and functions, as well as trying [...]