We all fall prey to procrastination. From school assignments to dental appointments or simply having to clean out the leftovers in your fridge, some tasks are trivial, just cumbersome to execute, mostly no fun at all, and have no dire consequences. However, never quite getting to the things you want to accomplish in life because of avoidance behaviours will be a shame.
“Docendo discimus”, said the Roman philosopher Seneca, meaning that “by teaching, we learn”.
The pandemic has accelerated the use of video conferencing and technologies globally. Familiar names such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Cisco WebEx, and Barco weConnect are video platforms often used by organisations for recruitment, onboarding, training, meetings, medical consultations, and even design sessions.
One may think that this request was just an outlandish demand and excessive behaviour of a prima donna rock-star. It turns out that the “no brown M&M’s” clause was actually a creative quality control measure, an ingenious business strategy.
To help students not worry alone, Mr Felix Cheok, an F&B industry veteran, touched on the topic of stress management in the most recent Scholarship Guide webinar, sharing tips on how to get ahead of anxiety, how to keep your mind and emotions in check when panic strikes, and how best to manage time.
LinkedIn is dubbed to be the place for professionals to find and be found. With over 756 million members worldwide and two million from Singapore alone, 40 million people use LinkedIn to search for jobs each week; three people are hired every minute on the platform.
Scholarship Guide was honoured to invite Mr Sakamoto Shigeki from Waseda University to speak with students at the third instalment of its webinar series.
Habits are behaviour that we develop at some point in our lives, and it gets locked in, becoming automatic—like how we carry on a conversation whilst driving. As we practice these behaviours on auto-pilot, we often fail to recognise that we have a “habit”, let alone—a “bad habit”.
What is the D&I workplace trend all about? Let us get the definitions out of the way.
Speaking at a Scholarship Guide webinar as part of the Raffles Institution Scholarship & Career Fair on 3rd June 2021, Mr Felix Cheok, a veteran in the Food & Beverage (F&B) industry, put into perspective the total amount of time an average person spends working before retirement – to emphasize the importance of one’s career development.
Recognising how overwhelming and challenging it can be to make scholarship-related decisions, we have compiled a list of frequently asked questions (FAQs) to equip potential candidates with insight into the process and its requirements. If you have a question that you are unable to find an answer to on this page, you may find useful information on the Scholarship Guide website
The plethora of benefits found in having a scholarship are said to last longer than cash. In this article, we explore how a scholarship can be seen as a valuable asset to any academic and career endeavour.
