​It’s the new (financial!) year for us this week – and for many businesses across APAC as well. It’s a treat right now to have a new year. After the... can we say, interesting times in the last 6 months, we’ve had enough time to wrap our heads around what was happening and find ways to stay helpful and relevant to our core customers. Our pipe dreams have accelerated quickly ...

​Here’s why partnering exclusively with an agency increases your chances of making the right hire at the right time. Employer Brand - news travels fastThe agencies that you appoint are acting as your brand ambassadors, sharing your message with the world. Why not save the admin of briefing 4-5 agencies on the same job and instead, invest quality time in 1 kick-ass brief to e...

​Episode 1 of the "What's Next" podcast is live!Kathryn Woof was invited by Andrew Clark and Suzy Goulding to chat about what's next for HR, coaching, and recruitment... and was also pushed on music taste, TV habits, and reading 👍Sign up to the series to hear "What's Next" in the worlds of communications, marketing, and lifestyle!

​I’m not going to lie, 2020 has been a challenging time for everyone on every level. The year has forced everyone to get out of their comfort zone, adopt the “new normal” or the “normal normal” and make changes/sacrifices while we wait to see the silver lining at the end of the tunnel.If 2020 has taught me anything, it’s the importance to adapt and be agile because we now li...

It’s unusual to have such a universal topic which is affecting all our businesses. Amid this pandemic that we’re all living through, we have to start accepting a ‘new normal’. As work from home may continue for several months and into the distance future, how do we engage employees in the new socially distant workplace? On Thursday 4th June 2020, we held our first ‘virtual’ ...

​Rina Lee, Director at 33 Talent recently sat down with Channel NewsAsia on the Money Mind program to talk about the job market and employment trends during this time, including industries that are thriving. With the unemployment rate in Singapore the highest in 10 years, how will those who've lost their jobs recover? The good news is that there are many industries still hir...

​As the dust settles on the initial chaos of getting teams set up to work from home, we may feel our job is done.  People are functioning.  Everything seems to be working.  We’re good to go.The thing is, technically everything may be up and running but emotionally people may not be.   For a few weeks the team was adapting to the process of working remotely, how to check in w...

Looking for a new job has never been an easy process and in the current times that we are in, it can feel like we’re looking for a needle in a haystack. With some sectors worse hit than the others and global layoffs, furloughs, salary reductions and rescinded job offers often in the news, anxiety levels are at an all-time high - however, amidst all of this, there is some goo...

​The most common question we’re hearing from candidates is whether they should continue applying to job openings or just put off their search, in light of more people being laid off and furloughed day by day. Indeed, many companies will not be actively hiring right now, given that they’re still in the midst of figuring out their way through the pandemic and the accompanying ...

​What an interesting time to be living in.  In the last 6 weeks working from home, I think the collective distance of me walking to the fridge in my kitchen could easily amount to walking one round around Singapore.I recalled my first week of circuit breaker (or lock down!), I was bursting with energy because I suddenly had a lot of time on my hands as I no longer need to wa...

​I first stumbled into coaching when I was feeling frustrated and lacking direction. I desperately wanted change but could see no path ahead. My self-esteem was at an all-time low and I was merely surviving.Fortunately, I became involved in a programme called Catalyst which was a combination of workshops, group coaching and 1:1 coaching and I found the change I needed. Coa...

​Imagine a phone call, a friendly voice on the other end starts with a thorough introduction themselves and the organisation they are representing, following by their interest in speaking about YOU - your career, your current situation, your aspirations goals and what you want out of your next career move. Then you’re organised for a lineup of interviews. Details of the me...