|
 |
| How to Manage Your Career and Stay Relevant |
|
Administrative professionals have come a long way since the days of merely supporting the line managers and their bosses. Whether working as a personal or executive assistant or as an office manager, you are in a career that has grown in leaps and bounds. |
|
|
| Making Jobs Relevant |
|
Job Re-creators don’t just re-brand and re-image job positions, they also increase productivity and efficiency by professionalising existing standards, explains Ms Lee Eer Ling of NTUC |
|
| |
|
|
| t |
|
What are the kinds of jobs available in the accounting industry? How does one embark on a career in this line? In this issue of Industry Focus, we meet up with Ms Elaine Chong, Assistant Director – Special Projects of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Singapore (ICPAS) who tells us all these and more. |
|
|
| Banking with a Passion |
|
An Industrial Relations Officer establishes and maintains a win-win partnership in the workplace between employers and employees. We learn more from Mr Jeremy Lee, Principal Industrial Relations Officer at the Singapore Teachers’ Union. |
|
| |
|
| Always The Right Call |
|
Angie Tay has a wealth of experience in the Call Centre industry and she is a Client Services Director at Teledirect. |
|
| |
|
| SANDEN - Keeping Cars Cool |
|
Sanden started development of compressors and heat exchangers in 1971, when the age of full-swing motorization was imminent in Japan, with a firm belief that air conditioning systems would become absolutely indispensable for cars.
Raymond Cheow is an engineer at Sanden International Singapore (SIS) and printed herein are his views of working in Sanden.
|
|
| |
|
| The Life Saving Force |
|
The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) is a uniformed organisation under the purview of the Ministry of Home Affairs. We are an organization whose main role is to provide fire fighting, rescue and emergency ambulance services; as well as formulate, implement and enforce regulations on fire safety and civil defence shelter matters. |
|
| |
|
| Brewerkz |
Founded in 1997, Singapore’s award-winning microbrewery restaurant, Brewerkz Restaurant & Microbrewery, was the brain-child of US-born Devin Otto Kimble and Daniel Flores, who initially modeled it after similar concepts in the USA and Canada. |
|
|
A Senior Service Manager & Human Resource Manager, Anthony Lee and a Brew Master, Scott Robertson tells us what its like to work at Brewerkz.
|
|
| |
| Pan Pacific Hotel |
| Located in the vibrant and scenic Marina Bay area, Pan Pacific Singapore is a leading Five Star hotel that was awarded the World's Leading Business Hotel at the World Travel Awards 2007. |
|
|
 |
We highlight three of her warm and professional staff here.
|
|
|
| Excellent Time for Spa Industry |
|
Because of constant manpower shortage situation, it’s an excellent time for those who want to serve in the spa industry, top entrepreneur and spa owner Ms Siti Ong reveals. |
|
| |
|
| Making Sure Everyone Wins |
|
What is it like working in the largest bank in Singapore? Or in one of the largest financial services groups in Asia for that matter? In this issue of Industry Focus, we meet up with Mr Philip Lim, Managing Director & Head - DBS Franchise & Strategy (Consumer Banking) who shares his insight on this as well as some tips on how one can build a career in the banking sector. |
|
| |
|
| The Only Place for Smart Car Buyers |
|
sgCarmart.com is today the largest car website in Singapore. It was set up in June 2004 to serve car buyers' needs for a reliable and authoritative source of information.
We chat to Vincent Tan, who is on who is one of the founders of sgCarMart.com and also its Business Development Manager.
|
|
| |
| Paypal, an eBay Company |
|
PayPal is a global leader in online payment solutions with more than 164 million accounts worldwide. We chat to Shannon Bravenec, who is a Recruiting Manager at PayPal. |
|
|
|
| NTUC Income |
|
NTUC Income is a leader in Life and General Insurance with total assets of S$21.3 billion. Today, it has more than 1.8 million policyholders placing their trust in NTUC Income. |
|
|
|
|
| Helping Make your Life Great |
|
Harold Ng is a Chartered Financial Consultant and Group Manager at Great Eastern. Harold has an illustrious career with Great Eastern that spans almost two decades. |
|
|
|
|
A career as a financial consultant offers variety and challenge. So says Ms Yee Siew Eng, Director, Human Resources of Prudential Assurance Company Singapore (Pte) Limited as she shares some insights on the insurance industry as well as advice for those considering a career in this line of work. |
|
| |
|
| Creating Great Landscapes |
|
Ellen Wong is an NParks scholar and works as a Landscape Architect. She shares about her passion for creating spaces where people and nature can interact in harmony. |
|
|
| No Ordinary Tree Climber |
|
Ow Siew Ngim, is an Arborist and Manager (Streetscape) with NParks. She reveals more about her unique job and what it’s like to climb trees. |
|
|
| A Love for Plants |
|
Alan Tan is a Horticulturist and Assistant Director at NParks, and he says that “NParks is an option that I would highly recommend to fresh graduates who aspire to a great career in an organization that offers them a wide and interesting scope of work, many opportunities to grow and develop themselves, and also enables them to appreciate the beauty of plants and nature at the same time.” |
|
|
| Conserving with Care |
|
“I'm really passionate about marine conservation and hence having the opportunity to work as a Senior Conservation Officer in Chek Jawa is really a dream come true for me to pursue my passion” , says How Choon Beng, Senior Outreach Officer, National Parks (NParks)
|
|
|
