SMEs: The Way to Boost your Career

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Business Leader

• Career Coach

• Speaker

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Careerladder.sg

SMEs are an important part of Singapore's economy as they make up 99 percent of our companies, employ 70 percent of our workforce and contribute 50 percent of our GDP.

- Teo Ser Luck22 Oct 2013

Big company vs small business

The Advantages of a Big Company

You Have More Obvious Structure

The Benefits Packages Are Better

You Can Switch Job Without Leaving

The Problems at a Big Company

Changes Happen Slowly

You Won't Know Some Coworkers

Your Fulfilment Can Be Determined by Your Surroundings

What is an SME?Ministry of Trade and Industry’s definition:

SME being an enterprise with less than S$100 million annuals sales turnover or employing less than 200 workers

Why should you join aN SME?

Testing ground

Autonomy

Easier to implement ideas

Easy access to management

React faster to change

Promote from within

Employee contribution and sense of ownership

Greater job satisfaction and opportunity to expand skills

Recognition:

Cooler and more interesting perks

How To Get Hired By A SME

Employers hire on personality

They hire on team fit

Core values - Kinderland

Align Yourself To SME Core Values

Employers see a lot of resumes

But only 30% of resumes are any good

Optimize your resume

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Make sure your resume carry the right keywords

Employers don’t want robot

What makes you different?

Look at what you are good at

Find mastery

It takes 100 hours to learn a skill

But 10,000 hours to master…

Find your unique differentiator

Employers hire to solve problems

Employers need people to hunt them down

Figure out what’s wrong

Be the solution, not the problem

Always be learning

How best do you learn?

Visual?

Osmosis?

Once learning stops, your value drops