Mentors can help you open doors to untapped opportunities, empower you to explore unfamiliar pathways, and teach you to navigate unforeseen challenges. No matter what stage you are at, keep your eyes open for potential mentors and be sure to nurture and maintain those relationships. Here are some tips to get you started.
Think intelligence and IQ tests are likely to come to mind. Traditional views of intelligence base human intellect on the results of paper and pencil tests and statistical analysis. This notion began to evolve in the early 1980s when Dr Howard Gardner, professor of Education at Harvard University, challenged the view of intelligence being a singular property, suggesting that human beings each have different ways of learning and their unique configuration of intelligences. He developed the theory of multiple intelligences, proposing eight distinct intelligences to account for the diversity in human potential.
So, what’s your threshold for the spice of life? Stress doesn’t come from parents, peers, teachers, exams, deadlines, traffic jams, or other circumstances. It comes from your thoughts about your circumstances. Two people experiencing the same situation can respond in different ways. What pushes the stress button in one person can have no effect on another. Hence, stress is not the situation or event but rather how it is perceived.
Confidence remains one of the top traits skilled professionals look for when hiring or promoting a candidate.
Have you ever gotten off at the wrong train stop and been too embarrassed to get back on, even when there is still time—because you are afraid that people will be laughing at you under their breath? Are you losing sleep over the upcoming presentation, worrying that you will mess up and the audience will remember your blunder forever?
Not every applicant gets to the interview process. All your efforts in building your profile to qualify for a scholarship, your detailed application, an impressive essay, and letters of recommendation have gotten you this far. If you are already preparing for your scholarship interview, congratulations—you have gotten one foot in the door!
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.
