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It’s been a while since the term life sciences last appeared in the mainstream media. Most recently, it appeared somewhat in the form of “green chemistry” in this CNA report talking about GlaxoSmithKline opening a facility in Singapore and sponsoring some scholarships. The scholarships are for studies in green chemistry and public health policy. Green [...]
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Former one-hit-wonder Stella Ng has recently been declared bankrupt by the Singapore court. She’s a mandopop singer before her foray into the chocolate cake business. Back in 2007, Zaobao reported that her cake business in Taiwan was raking in S$500,000 a month in sales. She had obtained the franchise rights from Awfully Chocolate in Singapore [...]
Read the full article at Case Study 6 – Bankrupt and Successful Businesswoman?Thanks to a comment from a reader, I got to know about the Hays 2009 Salary Guides. After browsing through some of these guides, I personally think the salary ranges are on the high side, especially when the footnotes say “salaries are representative of the total package value, although exclude any annual bonus.” Here’s a [...]
Read the full article at Hays Salary Guides 2009About half of fresh graduates polled here are unemployed. If you are a male fresh graduate affected by the recession, you should consider joining the Singapore Armed Forces. As reported in ST today, a lieutenant-colonel retiring at age 45 (the current retirement age) will get about $700,000 in gratuity. Such lump sum payments make it [...]
Read the full article at Jobless Graduates Should Consider SAFThe mainstream media is apparently telling us that business degrees are no longer in demand. We are told a law degree can command a salary as high as $8,500 while arts and science courses are getting popular now. On the front page of yesterday’s Business Times printed edition: “Trainee lawyer bags $8,500 monthly pay Foreign [...]
Read the full article at Business Degrees Not In Demand AnymoreSome wise words from Richard Hartung, a former banker who wrote a piece for Weekend Today. The following is (apparently) only available in the printed edition of this weekend’s Today: “The market will reprice itself… A boom tends to over-reward everybody as young executives rush in to become investment bankers, private bankers, property agents, stockbrokers, [...]
Read the full article at A lot of humility will returnJust as we were debating whether engineering is a dead-end career in Singapore, I noticed a common trait among the 2008 batch of President’s Scholarship recipients. None of them is going to be an engineer. From what President Nathan said in his speech, these scholars will all be heading to foreign universities for their studies. [...]
Read the full article at None of this year’s President’s Scholars doing EngineeringWhile the Stratis Times chose the headline “Nearly half of PSC awards to heartlanders” (ST, July 26, 2008), I prefer to highlight the still rather big and obvious gap when you compare the proportion of heartlander scholarship holders (47.0%) to the proportion of the general heartlander population (77.8%). As mentioned in a previous Salary.sg post, [...]
Read the full article at Only 47 percent of Scholars stay in HDBI have previously said that investment banking is a very lucrative career option for able students (see post). What if you are already working, but in the wrong line, and want a mid-career switch into i-bankng? Read on. Yes, there are some very smart and very capable people who think they got into the wrong [...]
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