If you have lived - studied, worked, and perhaps came into adulthood - in a foreign country for a while, you’d have gotten used to their culture and learned to do things in a very specific way that is not transferable or even applicable to your home country. S...

So this week, this article highlighted the findings of a survey by global recruiter, Randstad, that 49% of millennials in Malaysia between the ages of 18 to 24 preferred to stick to conventional working hours. In this regard, millennial sentiment around standa...

Job interviews are daunting for both fresh jobseekers and experienced workers. You have on average 45 minutes to impress, but employers would have already formed an impression of you within the first 90 seconds of meeting you.

Yikes.

Maybe the interview is going...

Effective December 2017, the legal drinking age in Malaysia will increase from 18 to 21. Alcohol products will have health warning labels, and a sign barring the sale of the products to people below 21 years old will be displayed at counters. Those who do not...

It’s the holiday season for most students and those studying at public universities in Malaysia (I’m talking about you Third Years), should now be knee deep in their internships.

An internship is a great way to get a taste of what it’s like to work in a particu...

Earlier this year when exiting Malaysia Airlines (MAS) CEO Cristoph Mueller cited the company’s poor work culture - including a ‘bloated workforce’ and employees sleeping on the job - as a reason for massive retrenchments, Malaysia’s National Union of Flight A...

"Why is my boss just so... frustrating?"

Sometimes your boss does a lot of weird or irritating things that make your life harder. While you’re trying your best to do your job, they just seem to be out to get you. Is this a conspiracy all higher-upper have to un...

Some suffering at work is mandatory regardless of how much we might love our jobs. We all have our fair share and often, it's for the better - we'll learn things the hard way and remember them forever, or it'll build our character to be better people than we w...

Have you seen those entry-level job postings that require 2 -3 years experience, and wonder if someone forgot to proofread the description before sending it out?

Word on the street is, requirements that ‘don’t make sense’ are to weed out less-serious applicants...

As the holy month of Ramadan is upon us, so is the observation of fasting for our Muslim colleagues. In tandem with this, many offices and companies throughout Malaysia modify their workplace practices to accommodate this special time.

But Malaysians are not al...