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Navigating the career map
Career Coaching & Guidance

Navigating the career map

This week, we look at how to create a career “map” that will help you plan out your career in the long term, writes Marc Burrage.

Loyalty has financial merits
Career Coaching & Guidance

Loyalty has financial merits

Job-hopping for pay may offer a short-term gain, but it can be detrimental to your career in the long term and even have a negative impact on your personal brand in the jobs market, writes Marc Burrage.

Prescriptions for a law student and real doctor
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Prescriptions for a law student and real doctor

I am a doctor with a few years of clinical experience. I’ve heard that some insurance companies hire doctors for administrative work related to medical insurance. What are the prospects like in such a field?

Take time to decide the path you wish to travel
Career Coaching & Guidance

Take time to decide the path you wish to travel

After I graduated from university, I worked for a boutique market research firm for a year. I am now thinking of switching to an industry that is more professional and more promising.

Delve deep for ethical staff
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Delve deep for ethical staff

In the final part of this series, we look at more strategies companies can use to make sure they hire ethical …

Be positive to ease the sorrow and land a job
Career Coaching & Guidance

Be positive to ease the sorrow and land a job

I’m an executive director at an industry association who feels disgusted at the office politics played by the board of directors. This has had such a huge negative impact that staff morale and …

How to find staff who fit in
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How to find staff who fit in

This week, we continue to look at strategies companies can use to ensure they employ ethically sound …

Bosses focusing on ethics
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Bosses focusing on ethics

Employers in Hong Kong now view a candidate’s ethical behaviour as a non-negotiable when they …

Sound advice can help you decide your future
Career Coaching & Guidance

Sound advice can help you decide your future

Contemplating a complete career change? Mark Enticott, the latest panellist to join the Classified Post’s team of Career Doctors, can help you make the change as he shares his personal experience in …