smes: the way to boost your career
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SMEs: The Way to Boost your Career
About me• Former Recruitment
Business Leader
• Career Coach
• Speaker
• Author
Careerladder.sg
SMEs are an important part of Singapore's economy as they make up 99 percent of our companies, employ 70 percent of our workforce and contribute 50 percent of our GDP.
- Teo Ser Luck22 Oct 2013
Big company vs small business
The Advantages of a Big Company
You Have More Obvious Structure
The Benefits Packages Are Better
You Can Switch Job Without Leaving
The Problems at a Big Company
Changes Happen Slowly
You Won't Know Some Coworkers
Your Fulfilment Can Be Determined by Your Surroundings
What is an SME?Ministry of Trade and Industry’s definition:
SME being an enterprise with less than S$100 million annuals sales turnover or employing less than 200 workers
Why should you join aN SME?
Testing ground
Autonomy
Easier to implement ideas
Easy access to management
React faster to change
Promote from within
Employee contribution and sense of ownership
Greater job satisfaction and opportunity to expand skills
Recognition:
Cooler and more interesting perks
How To Get Hired By A SME
Employers hire on personality
They hire on team fit
Core values - Kinderland
Align Yourself To SME Core Values
Employers see a lot of resumes
But only 30% of resumes are any good
Optimize your resume
http://careerladder.sg/free-resume-keywords-analysis/
Make sure your resume carry the right keywords
Employers don’t want robot
What makes you different?
Look at what you are good at
Find mastery
It takes 100 hours to learn a skill
But 10,000 hours to master…
Find your unique differentiator
Employers hire to solve problems
Employers need people to hunt them down
Figure out what’s wrong
Be the solution, not the problem
Always be learning
How best do you learn?
Visual?
Osmosis?
Once learning stops, your value drops