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Why you should treat your supplier well

19 Tuesday Apr 2016

Posted by Eric Alagan in Business, Human Resource

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Over the last few decades, I’ve established hundreds of new customer accounts and served several thousand customers – mostly B2B.

Admittedly, l’ve encountered only about 10 customers – individual purchasing staff who had been downright rude and abusive.

How about you?

Supplier – business partner

Supplier – problem solver

Supplier – customer

Supplier – opinion leader

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Why ask job applicants to enclose their photographs?

12 Tuesday Apr 2016

Posted by Eric Alagan in Business, Human Resource

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In Singapore, it is the norm to demand from candidates a “non-returnable” photograph with their job applications.

Many companies – small and medium enterprises (SMEs), multinational corporations (MNCs) and government linked companies (GLCs) – simply parrot this nonsense.

This creates a perception of discrimination in hiring.

But I also believe that many so-called HR professionals in Singapore are ignorant and merely copying and pasting stuff that they had seen and experienced when they first applied for a job.

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Match Qualification Criteria to Job Scope

01 Friday Apr 2016

Posted by Eric Alagan in Business, Human Resource

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Why do human resource managers in Singapore demand unnecessary paper qualifications from their candidates?

Are GCE O Levels required for ALL job openings?

Or, is it a case of herd instinct? Since everyone else asks for it, I better ask for it too.

Or, is it something more –

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