Worried if You Can Reach Your Career Aspirations? Here’s Tips for Singapore’s Broad Middle Workers (Growth)

While it’s certainly great to be reskilling and upskilling with courses that you think will help towards your career goals and aspirations, there seems to also be a growing trend towards more local workers and jobseekers becoming “cert happy”, according to Shane Yan, the co-founder of Growth Beans, a company that provides growth programmes for Singaporean workers to achieve their personal and professional potential.

Being too kiasu about getting certificates and attending training courses for the sake of it, can lead to “death by paper”, as Shane shares in this latest podcast by CareersCompass by MyCareersFuture.

Key highlights to listen to: 

• (2:20) What mistakes do Singaporeans make in setting their career goals
• (2:45) “Death by paper”- why taking courses for the sake of it doesn’t work.
• (5:47) Learn how this Singaporean planned for a career switch to tech, and what kind of courses she took.
• (6:53) Being paiseh to network is only hurting your career- here’s why.

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