Posted in Careers on Apr 30th, 2009
Ever thought about working for yourself? It’s not going to be easy, you know, because the boss you will be working for may well turn out to be the toughest boss you’ve ever had. Yes, the boss will be you and as your own employee, you’ve got to be pretty sure that you fit well [...]
Posted in Rockwills & Estate planning, Rockwills & Inheritance on Apr 29th, 2009
Here is an interesting report in yesterday’s edition of The Straits Times which touches on succession in Chinese business families. It has long been assumed that among the Chinese, death and succession are still considered as taboo subjects not to be discussed at the family dining table. Maybe it’s true but personally, I feel that [...]
Posted in NinaWang on Apr 28th, 2009
The original handwriting expert chosen by fung shui master Tony Chan Chun- chuen has strong evidence that the signature on a will bequeathing Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum’s estate to him is a high- quality fake, the Court of First Instance was told yesterday. Chinachem Charitable Foundation, which is also staking a claim to Wang’s fortune, [...]
Posted in Careers on Apr 28th, 2009
WHAT do employers think of job-hopping? Malaysian Employers Federation president Md Jafar Abdul Carrim said frequent job-hopping was not well regarded. “Employers see someone who, say, job-hops eight times as a rolling stone,” he said. He believed that in the early years of a person’s working life, he or she should stay in one company [...]
Posted in General on Apr 22nd, 2009
Do you find that Junk mail has permeated deep into our society and has become an unavoidable way of life? It’s not only the physical junk mail and junk brochures that we find stuffed into our letter boxes at home. At the office, I find that I have to delete about 20 to 30 percent [...]
There is a good chance that you will have heard of the term “mortality rate”. I’m not an insurance person but this much I can tell you: “mortality rate” is simply a measurement of the frequency of death for a given group of people at a particular period of time. Complicated? It needn’t be. The [...]
Posted in Careers on Apr 20th, 2009
Several years ago when I started out giving talks to the public and college students on how resumes should be written, I never failed to start off by telling my audience that whether they like it or not, everyone of us is in sales and marketing, and their resume should be that document that would [...]
Posted in Careers, Resume Writing on Apr 18th, 2009
This came from an article in The Star today: AP Search Management Recruitment Sdn Bhd director KH Teoh believes that with the present shrinking job market, there is a greater need for job seekers to write their resumes and present themselves well during interviews. Employers will be looking for key items, depending on the applicants’ [...]
Posted in Chess on Apr 17th, 2009
An arbiter’s work is to apply rules laid down by the World Chess Federation. AT the end of the day, we have to realise that chess is nothing more than a game between two individuals. The game is about two persons sitting across each other and trading moves, alternating from one person to the other, [...]
Posted in economy on Apr 11th, 2009
This is an article from The Malaysian Insider, itself reproduced from a report from The Straits Times in Singapore. It talks about the effects of the global economic crisis on Malaysia and how it has hurt the common man in the country. The fears expressed by the people interviewed in this report are very real [...]
