Design Thinking for Later and Longer Careers: How Should Singaporean Workers Start Planning Ahead? (Tenacity)

Whether you’re younger, middle-aged, or senior, career and skills planning to remain competitive to employers is growing in importance, particularly to maintain employability past 50.

As such, our guest for today’s podcast is Simon Siah, an advisor with Courage Chapter, an organisation founded with a mission on changing the narrative around aging in the Singapore workforce.  

We’ll discuss how to your average Singapore worker can use design thinking – a popular buzzwork at workplaces these days - for better career health even into their later years!

Key highlights to listen to:

• (1:20) Why are Singaporeans unprepared when there’s a sudden change in job status?
• (5:00) Reinventing oneself career-wise.
• (8:29) Design-thinking: what is it, and how does it help map out your career?
• (9:00) Skills for the future to learn today

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