You’ve sent out the scholarship application and you received a call or an email to turn up for the scholarship interview. Now it’s time to seal the deal. So what’s the best way to be prepared?
Motivation
Navigating a World of O2O
We live in two worlds—digital and physical. Whilst we spend a good portion of our daily lives in the online space, our physical lives are rooted in the offline space, where human interactions remain key in many scenarios.
Feeling Like You Just “Got Lucky” with Your Achievements?
You finally earned a prestigious scholarship and got a place in your dream university! But instead of feeling proud of yourself, you feel like you don’t deserve your achievements. You think to yourself that the review committee had probably overlooked something, or you must have just gotten lucky.
Be Steady in the Face of Criticisms
As you grow to become leaders in different domains in life, you must develop the muscle to hear critical feedback and learn how to deliver well-meaning criticism that encourages acceptance and positive outcomes.
Multiple Intelligences Needed To Live Life Well
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.
Stop Procrastinating Already: About Eating Frogs, Editing Blank Pages & The Parkinson’s Law
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.
The Best Way to Learn Is to Teach
“Docendo discimus”, said the Roman philosopher Seneca, meaning that “by teaching, we learn”.
Master The Art of Video Communications
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.
The “No Brown M&M’s” Clause: Why the Trivial Details Matter
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.
Creating An All-Star LinkedIn Profile for Students & Recent Graduates
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.
Study In Japan: Guide for Singapore Students
Scholarship Guide was honoured to invite Mr Sakamoto Shigeki from Waseda University to speak with students at the third instalment of its webinar series.
Scholarship Guide Webinar: Stress Management – Simple Habits To Manage Stress
In this webinar, let’s take a look at some of the best stress management and time management tips, to help you get ahead before anxiety sets in, or if you’re already feeling the strain, to take control of that energy and put it to good use. Supporting your body to be healthy year-round will help you to cope with stress before it starts. Many of these are things that we know we should be doing but when things get busy, it is easy to forget about prioritizing them.