August 2007 Career & Job Tips
By Zul • Sep 3rd, 2007 • Category: Career •
Here are some highlights of August 2007 postings, tips and happenings. For career women who are currently working in the public service out there, I doubt any of the news below will be better than the latest announcement from Najib that they now can take maternity up to 5 years (unpaid leave). They can opt to take a continuous 5 years off or accumulate the holiday in stages, but one thing for sure is that, they can come back after 5 years and still enjoy 3 stages of salary increment. This is follow up of the initial proposal earlier this month.
5 Reasons Why You Need to Find Another Job
Yes, the time is now for you to start finding another job. And what if you have an excellent job, excellent pay, and working with excellent company? Should you find another job too? Ok, ok, stop judging. Read first.
You are Closer to Your Dream, Yet…
Yes, we have dreams. And we have visions. We work towards our dream and towards our vision. But when we are facing difficulties and adversities, where did we go? We go to where we are most comfortable at.
My brother in law recently accepted a trainee position with a company in Shah Alam, Selangor and started his job today. There is not a lot to speak about his pay for the job but his determined attitude will allow him to open up more possibilities and opportunities. He was an average college graduate but in the real working world that does not care once he is there inside the game.
Sending email and online job applications may bore you because it does not give a fruitful results? Shall I travel back time and use the manual mail delivery? Is it worth it?
Resigning From Job - Getting it Right
You can’t wait to leave your job now, but you have some concern, and you have questions. How do I write resignation letter? My resignation letter sucks! Is the problem real? Is there any other matters that I need to look into apart from the resignation letter? What do you know about the right process of resigning from job?
Who’s Hiring?
General Electric (GE) is looking for some fresh engineers for their Oil and Gas division. For more opportunities by other big players like Deloitte, Motorola, OCBC, Shell and Hewlett Packard (HP), click August Week 2 Job Vacancies Update. Also, check out job opportunities (that include one in Dubai, UAE) by Bon Recruitment Agency. Finally, there’s more good news for fresh graduates especially those in IT, as Dell opens up 20 job vacancies in their Graduate Attachment Program.
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Sometime I feel tired of working days job, but what to do, life must go on…
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Grow up your blogs & sites, who knows one day it can give you full time income….
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[...] my August 2007 Jobs & Career Tips posting, Zaki of Blogjer casually told me how tiring his job can be sometimes. Maybe it’s [...]
Yeah, may be u may try to treat blogging as your full time job. I guess Zul can guide you through:)
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No lah I’m still learning from the experts. They are many prolific gurus out there we can learn from.
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