Ditch the tradition short term tactical approach to job search. You need to think strategic to see where the market will go long term and design a better future for your career.

1. Design Your
Singapore
Career Future

2. About me
HR Entrepreneur,
Public Speaker and
Career Coach
2013 Leading HR
Entrepreneur award
recipient
Former Managing
Director of
RecruitPlus
Former President of
Singapore
Professional
Recruitment
Organisation

3. Our economy has
changed significantly

5. 1990 - Biomedical

6. 1990 - Biomedical

7. Market forces cause change
to
Quay Clubs

8. And with each change, there are
winners and losers
LOSERS
WINNERS

9. WINNERS

10. WINNERS

11. WINNERS

12. And there are
LOSERS

13. LOSERS

14. LOSERS

15. LOSERS

16. And just like stock investment,
difference in timing could mean a
rocket launch

17. or an avalanche

18. We are already witnessing
jobs that didn’t exist a
decade ago

19. Lego certified professional

20. Professional Poker Player

21. Professional mountaineer

22. And the ones that are
dying….

23. Travel Agents

24. Car park warden

25. Stock brokers

26. Will your job be next?

27. To be replaced by machines?
url: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/05/21/408234543/will-your-job-be-done-by-a-machine

28. Or not?
url: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/05/21/408234543/will-your-job-be-done-by-a-machine

29. Traditionally this is how people
apply for jobs

30. They identify their functional
niche
Accounting

31. They whack every jobs with that
title
Apply
Accounting

32. #facepalm
Regret
Apply
Acco
unting

33. THINK
STRATEGIC!

34. Instead of bottom-up

35. Go top-down

36. Look at it from a business
perspective

37. What are the booming sectors?

38. Look at government’s direction

39. Five growth clusters* of the
future
Advanced
Manufacturing
Applied Health
Sciences
Smart and
Sustainable
Urban Solutions
Logistics and
Aerospace
Asian and
Global Financial
Services
*according to Singapore government

40. Monitor EDB press releases

41. Follow Ministry
of Trade and
Industry

42. But be critical and see if it make sense

43. Even in a down market

44. There will
still be
WINNERS

45. Such as…

46. Two of my picks
Post-Employment
Education
Tech Start-Ups

47. Education
is going to be
BIG

48. Post-Employment Education

$600 million per year
over the last five
years
$1 billion per year over
the next five years

49. Tech Start-Ups

50. There’s even startups specific job
portals

51. There’s even startups specific job
portals

52. But the buck starts with
you

53. Employers hire on personality

54. They hire on team fit

55. Employers see a lot of resumes

56. But only 30% of resumes are any good

57. Optimize your resume
http://careerladder.sg
/free-resume-
keywords-analysis/

58. School is about making you the
same

59. Employers don’t want robot

60. What makes you different?

61. www.vennjobs.com

62. Look at what you are good at

63. Find mastery

64. It takes 100 hours to learn a skill

65. But 10,000 hours to master…

66. Work on your strength
Work around your weakness

67. Be curious

68. Employers hire to solve problems

69. Employers need people to hunt them
down

70. Figure out what’s wrong

72. Always be learning

73. How best do you learn?

74. Osmosis?

75. Visual?

76. In the end it’s about results

77. And hitting your targets

78. Final thoughts from
experts

84. Need more advice?

85. Visit my website – http://careerladder.sg

86. adrian.tan@careerladder.sg
Or drop me an email

87. Design Your
Singapore
Career Future