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As reported in the papers today, official CPF figures show that employees working in the real estate and financial services industries got the highest pay increase this year. The average increase is 8.3% for financial services and a whopping 23.8% for real estate & leasing services. But what is more interesting (to me) in the [...]
It’s reported in today’s Business Times that more students are applying for business courses in universities. The survey conducted by JobsFactory, which runs Jobs Central and Career Central, shows that even once-popular courses like medicine and law now rank low in the eyes of graduating JC students. In the survey, 2,407 students were asked to [...]
Forbes.com published a list of most well-paid jobs in America. It’s a little similar to the top jobs in Singapore, except that the medical professions feature more strongly in the US list. The salary difference between the No. 1 and No. 25 is also narrower (I’m not sure if it’s fair to compare this way [...]
Read the full article at Best-paying jobs in the USThe Public Service Division just made a press release announcing a half-month bonus for civil servants. Civil service employees will receive a mid-year Annual Variable Component (AVC) of half a month, and an additional payment of $220 in July 2007. The AVC, as its name implies, is a variable salary component. It varies according to [...]
Read the full article at Half-month bonus for civil servantsParents, if you think a baby born in the Dragon Year (according to Chinese Lunar Calendar) is good for the baby in terms of education and career, you are sorely mistaken. If anything, it’s the opposite. The baby will grow up to suffer the effects of “overcrowding”. It has been well established that in Chinese [...]
Read the full article at Bad for dragon babiesIn today’s Sunday Times, the personal career adviser gave a 19-year-old girl this answer: go for Cambridge. However, it won’t be an easy decision for the girl, as “it would be an extremely heavy financial burden” on her family. The costs and fees for an international student at Cambridge include: Tuition fees. This depends on [...]
Read the full article at Cambridge or local university?If you haven’t noticed, doctors rank very well in the top 100 jobs mentioned previously. Specialised surgeons (“specialist” doctors who perform surgeries) ranked number 1 with a 75th-percentile income of $22,821, while GPs came in 4th with $14,653. These are only the 75th-percentile salaries. We can only speculate that at higher percentiles, doctors make much [...]
Read the full article at Doctors’ payA reader asked why the pilot profession is not one of the top 100 jobs. Maybe it’s not one of the “common” jobs as defined by the Ministry of Manpower survey. From today’s Straits Times, we get a better picture of how much SIA pilots make. This continues from where the previous post on SQ [...]
Read the full article at Pilots’ payAs we brace ourselves for an IT job boom, here’s a ZDNet Asia report on IT employment trends in the region. According to the report, the top 5 skills in demand are: Project management Business analysis Microsoft .NET J2EE (Java Enterprise Edition) General programming skill Not surprisingly, the top industry is Legal & Finance, with [...]
Read the full article at IT Salary BenchmarksThe ST Digital Life reports that a whopping 55,000 IT jobs are up for grabs from now till 2015. This is the projection of Infocomm Development Authority (IDA), which is currently seeking public consultation on its IT manpower development strategies as part of its iNtelligent Nation 2015 (iN2015) masterplan. IDA also maintains a talent development [...]
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