How can coaching help leaders and What are the benefits of coaching?

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Steering career back on track after layoff or career break

Job Search after being laid off or career break, Yolanda Yu, Career Coach

It’s one of the most challenging times now to find a job after being laid off or a career break. You may be feeling some self-doubt in this times of uncertainty, here’re the top tips on how you can power Restart your career and get back on track.

A Simple Guide to Finding “What career is right for me?”

“What Career is RIGHT for Me?” For so many times, in my Career Coaching sessions, I get asked this question: “What career is right for me?” It’s probably because everyone asks this question at some point of time in one’s life. What exactly is this question about? To try to know something, we first have… Continue reading A Simple Guide to Finding “What career is right for me?”

How to Have an Amazing Profile After Jobhopping

I want to clear a very common misconception about job-hopping. It’s a bit of an unkindly term describing those who change their jobs a bit too often. And people who changed their jobs a few times often worry they had committed a sin and put a good career to an end. There’s often a belief… Continue reading How to Have an Amazing Profile After Jobhopping

How did Singapore’s Phua Chu Kang become colleagues with Christiano Ronaldo?

Our case study today is about someone who made a very successful career transition into digital. This candidate does not have any digital experience and was working in a traditional industry as a contractor for the last twenty over years. Yet he recently landed a high profile, high visibility role in Singapore, as the brand… Continue reading How did Singapore’s Phua Chu Kang become colleagues with Christiano Ronaldo?

The Unobvious Career Options in Fintech (1)

Fintech has become a highly popular domain for career choices in the last few years. Venture capital companies bet a lot of money on Fintech, and those deals occupy the business headlines. With its high growth, Fintech is also one of the few industries that are still hiring very actively even today. The Multi-Million Dollar… Continue reading The Unobvious Career Options in Fintech (1)

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

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?

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