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29-10-2021 04:27 PM
Unregistered anyone got experience in change of career from IT to healthcare? care to share?
24-07-2020 09:52 AM
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16-02-2020 12:31 AM
Unregistered Consulting need MBA
27-01-2020 11:30 PM
hikaru91
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Can consider consulting, or govt jobs?
Yes for consulting - but under the impression they ask for coding/analytics experience
03-01-2020 09:27 PM
Unregistered Can consider consulting, or govt jobs?
26-12-2019 01:34 AM
hikaru91
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FinTech? Since that's an area where tremendous growth seems to be in the making and finance requires lots of legal oversight for compliance and contractual work?
Yes it is possible, but the concept itself isn't for everyone. Most of it I feel is just new softwares to cut inefficiencies here and there and if you don't have a technical background you are just doing BD.
23-12-2019 05:57 PM
chancellor FinTech? Since that's an area where tremendous growth seems to be in the making and finance requires lots of legal oversight for compliance and contractual work?
22-12-2019 11:08 PM
hikaru91
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My observation from MNCs hiring and even public sectors, you seen recruiting of people who are not skilled in the area just because he or she knows the hiring manager. Yes experience is good however in Singapore context it is still who you know. Look into the LinkedIn and JP Morgan profiles and you understand it is who you know and whether he trust you. Don’t buy into the transferability of skills too much, this isn’t what is happening in the industries.
I know what you mean. I have friends who gotten top jobs from people they met at a club one night (they are guys, if it matters). Lol. I am working on the people networking bit - because i know most things aren't very difficult to pick up, it's whether people see you as someone whom they can work with on a daily basis.

Also addressing the post above, I am not planning to dive into a marketing executive role for e.g. that pays 2.5k and is targeted at fresh grads or even uni interns, when I have accumulated PQE in a different field. It's a bit dumb to 'start afresh' - you wonder if you have truly wasted the days in law you did. That's why I am trying to find that area of work where my legal experience can matter - not omitting consulting/advisory work in my job search.
22-12-2019 11:23 AM
Unregistered
Transferability of skills

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Looks like we have the same thoughts.

My biggest concern is transferability of skills between what we do now and where we are entering. What industries are you considering?
My observation from MNCs hiring and even public sectors, you seen recruiting of people who are not skilled in the area just because he or she knows the hiring manager. Yes experience is good however in Singapore context it is still who you know. Look into the LinkedIn and JP Morgan profiles and you understand it is who you know and whether he trust you. Don’t buy into the transferability of skills too much, this isn’t what is happening in the industries.
22-12-2019 11:18 AM
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Calculated risks in exploring

The word underemployment comes when one is earning much lesser than he should be. I have done one professional for 20s year and I am looking at the recent hype of re-skilling from data perspective. I have gone through the work skill initiative and the transformation roadmap and ask myself - reskill is fine if I move from one role pays of 10 to another one that pay at 8k. However it makes no sense to move from 10k to 2k at all. The one size fit all is just to ensure all have work to do and not really starve to dead.

In the past, while I have a full time job, I will learn to reskill myself over weekend. It doesn’t make sense to lose your opportunities cost in area you are skilled in, and move into area you aren’t not. It doesn’t means you can’t be successful. However, the probability is against you.
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