Goldman Sachs might be hiring more in Singapore
According to FOX Business Network which cited sources in Washington, Goldman Sachs plans to add 1,000 “high-paying, skilled positions in sales and investment banking” to its Singapore office. According to analysts, Goldman appears to be expanding aggressively in overseas high growth markets to counteract its declining profits in the US.
Neilson’s ‘Women of Tomorrow’ survey finds that women have better/broader roles, more opportunities and also more stress
- 90% of women believe their role is changing for the better. Better access to education, improved career opportunities and higher pay scales in both developed and emerging economies are paving the way for a rise in women’s economic power. And that sentiment is clearly evident in Nielsen’s research, as nearly 80 percent of women surveyed in developed countries believe the role of women is changing, and of those, 90 percent believe it is changing for the better. In emerging countries, the future is even brighter
- Across both developed and emerging countries, the majority of women today believe they have more opportunities than their mothers did for everything from achieving personal financial stability and enjoying better health to having more career opportunities. And while that level of attainment will grow and develop even further for women and their daughters in emerging countries, a plateau of hope is emerging among the future generations for women in developed countries
- Female respondents in all parts of the world say they are pressured for time, rarely have time to relax and feel stressed and overworked most of the time, but women in emerging countries feel the strain even more so than women in developed countries. Many women today are wearing multiple hats by balancing both career and home/family responsibilities. In many emerging markets, this revolutionary change is in the early stages of development, while in developed markets, this evolution has been on-going for a longer period of time
- Women may control the spending in a household, but what they really desire is to have more equally-shared responsibilities with the partners in their lives about decisions on all matters from taking care of the children to purchasing a car. As more women enter the workforce, roles blur as traditional norms for predominantly male or female responsibilities change. There is strong consistency across developed and emerging economies that both men and women are equally “best fit” as the primary decision makers for most roles
New portal for hotel jobs in Singapore
The portal will be managed by the Singapore Hotel Association with funding from the e2i (Employment and Employability Institute), the training arm of the National Trades Union Congress. It will be launched next month and aims to better match potential employees aged 16 and above to requirements put out by hotels.
Sources and references: Human Resources Online, Neislen, AsiaOne