January 2021 | Page 2 of 2 | Yolanda Yu Executive Leadership Coach and Career Coach

How Does ByteDance Make Money

If you are applying for a job at ByteDance or interviewing with them, it’s important to understand: ByteDance’s big numbers How does ByteDance make money? How will the job you like fit into ByteDance’s giant universe? Understand ByteDance’s revenues and profit growth Recently, Bloomberg news reported that ByteDance’s profit jumped roughly 60% with EBITDA rose… Continue reading How Does ByteDance Make Money

6 Tips on networking with agency recruiters for career advancement

How to network for career advancement is a hot topic. However, people tend to under-estimate how headhunters / agency recruiters can be an important part of the network, even if you are not looking for a job. As an ex-agency recruiter, I feel that I have some of the insights on this topic, less known… Continue reading 6 Tips on networking with agency recruiters for career advancement

How to Take Stock of Your Career Capital for Growth

In our career life we have accepted a lot of tags, for example, an accountant, a lawyer, a salesperson. And once we accept these tags, it becomes very hard to think beyond them. I have been a salesperson/accountant for last 8 years, what jobs can I do other than sales? Well, depends on how you… Continue reading How to Take Stock of Your Career Capital for Growth

23 Best Ways to Enter FinTech Industry

The industries people typically enter from are: #1 As you can imagine, 50% FinTech people come from banks or broadly the financial services industry. And here it also includes investment as well. #2 are tech and digital industries. It’s easy to understand why digital – because they offer the digital use cases. As for Tech,… Continue reading 23 Best Ways to Enter FinTech Industry

When Should You Reject A Job Offer?

Below is a selective extracted version from the original podcast, my interview by A Mindful Career by Daniel. Daniel: hello, everyone welcome to the new episode of a mindful career. Today I have a new guest yolanda, We have known each other for years, so i would leave yolanda to introduce herself and also share… Continue reading When Should You Reject A Job Offer?

The moment of truth with gardening

Today, I started my day with gardening. Not that I had a lot of time, in fact, consider that I work 14+ hours a day, and often had to push all my personal matters aside (e.g. the quail eggs I bought last week are going to hatch if I still can’t find time to cook… Continue reading The moment of truth with gardening

Interview for Promotion: How to Position for Greater Success

Today I am going to talk about Interviews for promotion, whether you are going through that internal process with your current company, or applying for a higher level position elsewhere, you need some strategies to position yourself for greater success. If you haven’t got an interview but thinking of applying for a promotion, or amending… Continue reading Interview for Promotion: How to Position for Greater Success

The ultimate guide to choosing the best resume format

If you google “resume template”, there will be hundreds of resume creators at your disposal. But which is the best resume template with the best resume format? Actually, most likely none of them is. Here’s what I would recommend: Choose one that is closest to your needs, download, and then tailor it according to your… Continue reading The ultimate guide to choosing the best resume format

“Career Change in COVID era” Webinar 8th Dec

Do you believe that you can do much better by just avoiding some common mistakes in job search? I’m conducting a webinar: Career Change in COVID era: Increase your chance by simply avoiding the common mistakes Date: 8th December 2020 Time: 6:30 pm to 8 pm (Singapore time) Duration: 90 mins ABOUT THIS EVENT An… Continue reading “Career Change in COVID era” Webinar 8th Dec

Why did I start this blog ( and YouTube Channel)

There is one thing that intrigues me: the relationship between us humans and the work we do. What we do as “work” and “hobby” to a large extend shapes who we are, and “work” takes up a much larger proportion because of the huge amount of time we allocate to it. How Important is work… Continue reading Why did I start this blog ( and YouTube Channel)