employment

TOKYO (March 17): Graduate recruitment in Japan looks a bit like a scene from the movie "The Matrix." Hordes of students dressed in identical black suits and white shirts make the rounds of seminars, tests and interviews. Even as jobs outnumber a

SINGAPORE (March 14): Job seekers in Singapore can expect to benefit from a generally modest hiring pace from April to June this year.  

SINGAPORE (March 6): Singaporean managers and senior staff can prepare for 5% pay increases at most this year as the labour market stabilises.

BERLIN (Feb 27): Deutsche Bank AG cut its bonus pool for 2016 by almost 80%, Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung reported, a figure unmatched in the bank’s recent history as it tries to counteract the impact of low interest rates and legal expense

BEIJING (Feb 21): With a fur-lined jacket and a Miu Miu shoulder bag, Zhang Chen isn’t your traditional Chinese migrant worker. She huddles with about 40 others in the frosty, polluted air of North Beijing, waiting to apply for a two-day job guiding v

SINGAPORE (Feb 16): Not only was Singapore’s Gini coefficient, a measure of income disparity, the lowest in a decade at 0.458 in 2016 – it fell even further to 0.402 after adjusting for government transfers and taxes, according to Singapore’s Depart

SINGAPORE (Feb 8): 76.1% of Singapore’s hiring companies surveyed for ExpatFinder.com’s Asia Job Opportunities Report were in search of executive job applicants at the regular position level in 2016, especially in the fields of finance and marketing.

SINGAPORE (Feb 1): "Passionate" took the top spot among Singapore-based LinkedIn profiles as the most overused buzzword of 2016. This year, it has been replaced by the word "leadership".

SINGAPORE (Jan 26): Preliminary estimates from the Ministry of Manpower’s (MOM’s) latest Labour Market Advance Release have indicated that 2016 was once again a year of increased layoffs and redundancies among Singapore’s residents and citizens as t

SINGAPORE (Jan 12): Accenture, the global professional services company, has published a new report suggesting that as financial services firms look to integrate robot and human services, they face the challenge of blending a physical presence with advanc