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Covid19 has introduced many changes to the way we live. From turning our homes - our sanctuaries - into our workspaces, to turning us into part-time home schoolers, to completely changing the way we view personal hygiene and physical wellbeing. We are now at a point where some promising vaccines are on the horizon and we can glimpse the light at...

We are now eight or so months into the global Covid19 pandemic and we can safely assume that, for most people, working from their home is no longer a novelty. With many countries across the world (Malaysia included) reimposing localised movement restrictions, the need for remote working for health reasons is still there. But moreover, many compa...

The Coronavirus pandemic has led to a sizeable shift in economies around the globe, the acceleration of growth in certain job markets, and a contraction in others. Along with this has come a great re-think of both the ways in which we work and also the locations we work in. In this time of change, new job opportunities have emerged, while other ...

As the restrictions on work and movement, imposed at the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, start to be loosened, many companies are starting to bring employees back into their places of work. In Malaysia, many people have already gone back, albeit with some firms running a hybrid return model. Singapore is currently in Phase 2 and many companie...

As of 2nd June 2020, Singapore officially exited the Circuit Breaker and entered ‘Phase 1’, while in Malaysia the government moved from the CMCO to the ‘Recovery MCO’. Clearly, the region is now in the recovery phase of the Covid19 pandemic and this heralds a return to a greater degree of normality for most people, especially in terms of going b...

With the recent announcements that Singapore is extending the Circuit Breaker (CB) until 1st June and Malaysia is extending the Movement Control Order (MCO) until 12th May, we thought it would be a good time to look at job hunting during the regional ‘lockdown’ period. While it is certainly true that many staff are furloughed and while many cont...

Now that nearly all of us are working from home, there has been an unprecedented uptake of online collaboration tools and remote working technologies. Indeed, as governments, schools and businesses have scrambled to implement virtual continuity plans, workplace software companies (such as Zoom, Microsoft, and Google) have started offering their ...

With the types of technologies available to us today, such as VOIP, desktop virtualisation and web conferencing, there really hasn’t been an easier time to work from home – and to work there as effectively as if you were in the office. And now, with the global concerns around Covid-19 impacting work in many different ways, more and more people a...

It’s February 2020. We’ve had New Year and we’ve had Chinese New Year. Most people have had their annual bonuses and it’s likely many of you have changed jobs recently. Starting in a new firm can feel daunting when you’re at the beginning of the bedding-in process, so here are our top five helpful tips to get you integrating quickly and starting...

A happy 2020 to you all and we hope you had a relaxing and enjoyable Christmas and (Gregorian) New Year. And while it seems like the Christmas break was only yesterday, we are now already into CNY season! As you’ll no doubt be aware, CNY 2020 marks the start of the year of the Metal Rat under the Chinese Zodiac. So, it seems fitting that for thi...

Here we are at the end of another year. The Christmas break is upon us, with the New Year celebrations just around the corner. Time to take stock of the ups and downs of the past year, celebrate successes and look forward to the future. This year is particularly interesting as it is the end of the Twenty-Tens and the start of the Twenty-Twenties...

Today we continue our two-part series on NGOs, to celebrate our appointment by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to be their exclusive recruitment partner for the next year, working on a variety of roles within their Global Shared Services centre in Malaysia. In the last post we look at what an NGO is, what it’s like to work for an...

If you’ve been following us on social media, you’ll know that we’ve recently been appointed by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to be their exclusive recruitment partner for the next year, working on a variety of roles within their Global Shared Services centre in Malaysia. About the UNDP The UNDP is an NGO funded entirely by volu...

In our previous post, we looked the best ways to secure legitimate credit for your work. But most of us, at one point or another, will have been in that tricky situation where someone has taken all the credit for a project without recognising your contribution, or has simply taken the credit that you deserve. Naturally, prevention is better than...

For most offices, the mantra repeated in meetings and adorning the walls on posters is that teamwork is the key to success. And we understand this to be true. But it is also important to understand the role you, as an individual, have played in that success because, when it comes to regular appraisals and reviews, credit for being the motivation...

Hari Raya Aidilfitri is here and the end-of-Ramadan celebrations are underway. But while the festivities and feasting are in full flow, it’s worth remembering that the Ramadan period of fasting, self-reflection and almsgiving holds lessons for us all regarding frugality, self-awareness and altruism. For today’s post, we’re taking this idea and l...

Most of us have been there. You’ve been working in your role for some time; business has picked up, you’ve been performing well and your reviews have all been very positive. It certainly feels like the value of your contribution has increased - it’s about time you had a pay increase, right? And yet there are no signs of this happening. Have they...

As we spend so much of our lives in the workplace, there will inevitably come a time when one or more people start to rub each other up the wrong way. Unfortunately, due to the lack of understanding or skills to deal with the situation, all too often these acute flare-ups are ignored, meaning they fester and deepen, leading to a more chronic, lo...

During our careers, many of us have spent time working in environments that we felt we just didn’t fit into. Maybe you’re the jeans and t-shirt type who likes very flexible hours and a very loud, playful office atmosphere. Or maybe you prefer a total separation of work and personal life and prefer a smartly dressed office with more of a nine-to-...

You’ll see it all around you – on job descriptions, websites, and you’ll hear about it in feedback from interviews. It is now perceived as one of the most essential job interview assessment criteria and yet it is the hardest, if not most seemingly impossible aspect of the hiring process to prepare for. We’re talking about ‘cultural fit’, that om...