Category: Career Related
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Real pilot as actor and not real actor as pilot?
Will this happen? Real pilot as actor and the next airline based series may have all real people from the industry as actors? Not a pretty sight in the airline industry International borders are mostly closed. Everyone is afraid of the potential of COVID-19 being spread from outside the country into the country. Airlines are…
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Stay healthy. You need to work LONGER; past retirement.
Will you continue working past retirement? I guess the answer depends on whether we have enough to cater to our lifestyle. The lesser we spend, the lesser we need and the longer our savings could last us. Typical retirement age is probably between 56 – 60 years old today in Malaysia. This is on the…
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Vulnerable. You feel your salary is too low?
Some of us feel that our salary is too low. Some feel that the company is not appreciating us enough and thus is underpaying us. One picture tells a thousand words. Maybe more. Maybe it tells of how the income has been moving for many different generations? Perhaps it tells indirectly how some groups of…
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Degree is no longer needed. Do you feel unsafe or happy?
If I tell you that a degree is no longer needed, do you feel unsafe or happy? Depending on whether you have a degree or you do not have one, currently. Someone told me that in the future, a degree is definitely not needed. That someone has a degree, does not have a Master degree…
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New Startups, here is RM100,000 for you to accelerate your growth. (Plus a mentor too!)
Media Release – SUNWAY ILABS LAUNCHES NEW SUPER ACCELERATOR PROGRAMME RM 100,000 in seed funding and assistance in follow-up funding, mentorship and market access assistance, for startups in key verticals include Smart Cities, Edutech, Digital Health, Food and Agritech and eCommerce Sunway City Kuala Lumpur, 1 July 2020 – Sunway Innovation Labs (Sunway iLabs) today launched the Super Accelerator programme. The four-month programme is for early-stage…
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the KopiTalk #4 – Effective & Critical Non-Verbal Communication
Updated 20th June. Thank you for another good session of KopiTalk. Many good friends and new friends joined. I think all of us learnt more about non-verbal communication and why it is so critical today. The video could be viewed below: Happy learning and sharing. Original article: Whether we are from the technical side or…
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Below 40s are the ones losing their job.
I hope all the working professionals who are reading kopiandproperty.my is working hard and continued to get monthly salaries yeah. As we have read, the unemployment rate has risen and is very close to 4%. (Some say should already be higher…) A recent survey has showed that most of those losing their jobs were below…
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Fresh grads to middle and senior management. Over 1,000 jobs available NOW.
Too many people got retrenched, reports were non-stop. Airlines are said to have grounded most of its planes and many will have to be asked to leave. Fortunately, there’s a silver lining for tourism even if people may not suddenly choose to travel again unless they really feel safe enough with regards to COVID-19 situation.…
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It does not need to be retail or property, ok. Why not prawns?
When people think of business and they think of prawns, they may think of restaurants or retail shop for seafood. Not many would think of prawn farming. I do not yet own or operate any prawn rearing farms. However, I have read a bit more and would like to share some additional information about it.…
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New norm is FORWARD THINKING.
Cambridge Dictionary explained Forward-Thinking as, “the act of thinking about and planning for the future, not just the present” I think this is the new norm. Gone are the days when we keep doing the Business As Usual kind of life. Gone are the days that we think our business would not be disrupted. Gone…
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Strong and productive labour force. That includes me too!
I do think I read a lot more about the world (including news about leaders from some advanced nations), business and everything else (including football too) when compared to someone who watches drama on the TV all the time. Unfortunately for me, I really do not have the luxury of time to sit down and…
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Movement Restriction and Unpaid / Annual Leave. What’s your right as an employee.
The below is a good reference for all the employees in Malaysia who are currently working from home or staying at home doing nothing but were asked to take annual leave? It’s a Legal Quickie from ANTON & CHEN Advocates and Solicitors. (Do visit their FB page here for many more Legal Quickies yeah. Written…