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| How to Manage Your Career and Stay Relevant |
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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. |
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| Making Jobs Relevant |
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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 |
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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. |
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| Banking with a Passion |
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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. |
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| Always The Right Call |
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Angie Tay has a wealth of experience in the Call Centre industry and she is a Client Services Director at Teledirect. |
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| NTUC First Campus – Inspiring Young Lives
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| NTUC First Campus is a community of teachers, parents and early childhood professionals working together to bring out the best in each child. |
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We chat to staff from each of the NTUC First Campus education centres to find out more about their passion for early childhood education.
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| SANDEN - Keeping Cars Cool |
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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. |
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| Breadtalk |
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Founded in 2000 and listed on the SGX in 2003, BreadTalk is an international trend-setting lifestyle brand that constantly introduces new food culture with revolutionary changes.
Sharon Lam, Assistant Manager, Training & Development, shares about her job at BreadTalk. |
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| The Life Saving Force |
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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. |
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| 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. |
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We highlight three of her warm and professional staff here.
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| 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. |
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A Senior Service Manager & Human Resource Manager, Anthony Lee and a Brew Master, Scott Robertson tells us what its like to work at Brewerkz. |
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| Excellent Time for Spa Industry |
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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. |
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| Making Sure Everyone Wins |
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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. |
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| The Only Place for Smart Car Buyers |
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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.
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| Paypal, an eBay Company |
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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. |
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