Category: Career Related
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When we do not change, we stay the same. Oops…
I love to have lunch and coffee with different people every now and then. I learn new things every time this happens and I do not mind to pay for the coffee and the meal especially to people whom I could learn from and share some of my perspectives too. In the real estate industry,…
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Hey, are you above or below everyone else? Salary increments lah.
It’s already 2020. It’s past the Chinese New Year. I think most of everyone already know their salary increments for the potential their employers see in them for 2020. By the way, increment is for the potential. It is NOT for past performance yeah. I believe you can perform a higher role, so I promote…
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After working for 35 years, we get many millions of ringgit, good?
How much do you think we would have earned if we have worked for 35 years? Started at 21 and retired at 56, perhaps. Let’s just say that we started at RM2,000 and we retired with RM10,000. For ease of calculation, we use RM6,000 as the mid point. Then, it will be RM6,000 x 12…
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Salary increment needs to be higher than property price increase. Don’t disturb this balance.
Please take a look at the image below. Latest one from edgeprop.my newsletter. Information is from NAPIC and Malaysian Employers Federation. What it tells us is something very important if we intend to have a sustainable property market moving forward. The reason why people say the property market is not sustainable was because prices were…
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Oh dear. 27,000 people on unpaid leave for 3 weeks. Fortunately, not within same month.
My sister-in-law told me recently that she has already used up all her annual leaves. She did not use them only for holidays. She works in a factory and her factory has had a number of compulsory shutdowns end of last year. In other words, the employees are forced to take their annual leaves and…
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30,000 people to be unemployed this year?
In the competitive world of today, businesses which has been around for a very long time may not be around forever. From Walmart to Toys R Us and even the few famous handphone brands. When companies are no longer competitive, this meant jobs are no longer secure. The reason for uncompetitiveness may be due to…
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4 things to do before we lose our jobs.
Did you know that over 21,000 Malaysians lost their jobs in 2018? Plus, 50 percent of all these are from the Klang Valley? The four states where most people lost their jobs are Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Penang and Johor. This was what our Human Resources Minister M. Kulasegaran said, “A significant number, 7,755 workers, who lost…
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Working is also about responsibility, not just money. (you can leave too, right?)
This morning, I was listening to the radio and this topic came up. “Should we reply our bosses if they were to message us after working hours?” What are your thoughts? As usual, many employees called in to complain about their bosses being very inconsiderate. They said that their bosses expected immediate reply regardless of…
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kopiandproperty.my: the journey to earn more than pocket money
If you are thinking of starting a blog today, have you wondered how far it could go? Earning some pocket money every month? A couple hundred ringgits per month perhaps? How about turning the blog into a Sdn Bhd after some time and employing full time staff whom you pay market salary? Perhaps even achieving…
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Potential is everywhere. Find one and grow with it whether it’s a SME or a MNC.
It was reported in many medias today (16th May 2018) that the government is reviewing 17,000 contractual political appointees so as to reduce government expenditure. Here’s one in TheStar. Here’s another one in Mkini. What this also mean would be that the job market may have up to 17,000 new job seekers needing a job because they…
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Nothing clever about just ‘reading titles.’ Increase productivity, not just the salary.
Many people were forwarding an infographic from TheEdgeMalaysia with the title, ‘Half of Malaysians earn below RM2,000 a month.’ Their comments? ‘Oh dear, how sad…’ I am not sure if everyone read the infographic thoroughly or only the title because it is clearly stated that only 32 percent of wage earners in Malaysia have tertiary…
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Don’t ‘kill’ your sales people yea… (HOT SUN)
Every time a sales person closes one property deal, the reward is pretty good. That is why some sales people (either from the developer or from a real estate agency) are willing to work long hours everyday because one sale is already equal to one new iPhone or more. Anyway, I had lunch with relatives…