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Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008
These are the public holidays in 2008: January 1 (Tue) – New Year’s Day February 7 & 8 (Thu & Fri) – Chinese New Year March 21 (Fri) – Good Friday May 1 (Thu) – Labour Day May 19 (Mon) – Vesak Day August 9 (Sat) – National Day October 1 (Wed) – Hari Raya [...]
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Singapore Public Holidays 2008
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
Which industry sector pays the most bonus? You may want to consider bonus payouts in your next career move, as bonuses in some industries account for a large part of your annual remuneration. Based on a chart on the front page of last Saturday’s Straits Times, the following sectors are expected to pay good bonuses. [...]
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Year-End Bonus Ranking
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Wednesday, December 12th, 2007
If you hear someone say that civil servants don’t earn a lot when compared to the private sector, tell him he’s not entirely correct. Ask him whether he knows about the elite Administrative Service. Chances are he’ll look puzzled, or even start wondering if the service is about doing mundane clerical administrative work. The truth. [...]
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High Earners In Civil Service
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Saturday, November 24th, 2007
In this particular industry, the top 5 firms are giving an average year-end bonus of US$201,500 for each employee this year. This is about S$290k. Yes, you heard it right. These lucky workers are each getting an average cash payout this Christmas amounting to what most people here in Singapore earn in 5 years or [...]
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Average Bonus of US$201,500
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Saturday, November 17th, 2007
A small company hired a part-time masseuse in 1999. The job made her a multimillionaire just 5 years later. This is a true story (see NYT article). That company was Google. And that masseuse was Bonnie Brown. She exercised all her Google stock options in 2004, getting millions of (US) dollars in return. I just [...]
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Get lucky to be rich
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Sunday, November 4th, 2007
The June-to-September period saw very strong employment, with the highest gain in the services sector. In the recently released MOM publication, Employment Situation Third Quarter 2007, it is estimated that the current employment level (as at September 2007) stands at 2,667,400. This means there are about 2.7 million workers in Singapore. How many of these [...]
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Strong Employment Growth
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Thursday, October 11th, 2007
There is a job notice in www.eFinancialCareers.sg that offers a $100k per annum salary for an Assistant Private Banker position. The job scope entails providing administrative and sales support. In other words, the successful applicant will just in effect be a secretary of a private banker. Not much work, I suppose? I’m beginning to doubt [...]
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100k for Assistant Private Banker
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Saturday, October 6th, 2007
From 2000 to 2005, Looi San Cheng made $1.05 million in profits from his curry puff business. But this star hawker-businessman, who was lauded by PM Lee no less at last year’s National Day Rally, made a wrong move by evading tax. He under declared his income by more than $1 million over the 6 [...]
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Millionaire Hawkers
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Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
In a bid to attract more people to switch to teaching, the Ministry of Education has announced concrete HR policy enhancements in terms of remuneration and career advancement for mid-career teachers. According to MOE’s press release, about 22% of all teachers have more than 1 year of non-teaching work experience before becoming teachers. Kudos to [...]
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Higher Pay for Mid-Career Teachers
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Friday, September 14th, 2007
Fresh graduates prefer to work in the banking and finance industry, according to the 2007 JobsFactory Employer of Choice Report. More than 2,800 fresh graduates from NUS, NTU and SMU responded to the JobsFactory survey, which basically asked them 2 questions – 1 for private employers and the other for government-linked ones. The survey respondent [...]
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Banking and Finance Jobs Preferred
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