Why you should treat your supplier well

19 Tuesday Apr 2016

Posted by Eric Alagan in Business, Human Resource

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Business, Business Tips, Career, Consultants, Entrepreneur, HR, Human Capital, Human Resource, MNC, Organization, People, Problem Solving, SME, Solutions, Staff

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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