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Attention job interviewers and interviewees, the information below could be useful to you to successfully get the right person (for interviewers) or win your dream job (for interviewees). Many HR adopts 2 important person specification models by Alec Rodger and John Munro Fraser respectively to match a...
If you are going to start up a new business in Malaysia and would like to check whether the company name you thought of is available or not, now you can check it online for free, with SSM e-Info website. Other than the above purpose, you can use the same website to check a Malaysian company's information...
I would like to recommend a book about marketing which I just finished reading. It is the 15th global edition of Marketing Management written by marketing gurus Philip Kotler and Kevin Lane Keller. In fact, this is the text book or official reference book in many marketing courses. However, being an...
I would like to share with you an interesting article contributed by Dennis McCafferty to Baseline Magazine, which listed out the 10 signs of a bad working environment (or so called toxic workplace) that you must beware of. The 10 signs are... 1. Tasks are assigned without explanation You are constantly...
In the business world where sales and marketing activities are key function to bring in revenue and profit, there is a saying that if you focus in selling your product feature, the sales process will generally be more difficult than selling your product advantage to the customer; and if you focus in selling...
Here is the list of auspicious dates for opening business in year 2016, which is produced based on the Chinese almanac Tong Shu. It can be applied to new business opening, or reopening of business after a break/holiday. (Click the image to enlarge) Bear in mind that although the Tong Shu is a...
Elephants are majestic creatures that have remained mysterious to humans though they have been domesticated thousands of years ago. Tales of their bravery and intelligence have been carried through generations which can teach us a few things about community life. Startups with brilliant plans and...
Indian folk hero Mahatma Gandhi wrote about the Seven Deadly Social Sins, also known as the Seven Blunders of the World, or the Seven Dangers to Human Virtue, or the Seven Things that will Destroy Us, in the Young India newspaper in 1925. The list is as below: Wealth without work Pleasure without...
The official 2016 national and state public holidays in Malaysia has been announced by Cabinet, Constitution and Inter-Government Relation Division (BKPP), Prime Minister Department. There are 14 days of national holiday, and 3 of them fall on Sunday and another 3 fall on Saturday. Most of the states...
The Employees Provident Fund (EPF, a.k.a. Kumpulan Wang Simpanan Pekerja, KWSP) has put up an online survey in their website at http://www.kwsp.gov.my for its members to vote for their preference to the 4 proposals they've put up. The online survey starts from 21 April 2015 until 5 May 2015. You need to...
Mr. Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten shared in his blog about the 10 things you should never say during presentations, which I found is very inspiring. Here are the 10 no-no, and I believe most of us had said some or all of such sentences in our presentations before. Watch out! I’m very jet-lagged /...
The Employees Provident Fund (EPF, a.k.a. Kumpulan Wang Simpanan Pekerja, KWSP) Board, with the approval of the Minister of Finance, has just announced a dividend rate of 6.75% and RM39.08 billion gross investment income for financial year ended 31 December 2014, which is an increase of 11.66% compared...
