CTES

On 5th July 2024, CTES celebrated its 19th Anniversary at the EYA 2023/24 Award Ceremony and Gala Dinner, marking a uniquely special occasion. Traditionally, we commemorate our anniversaries with an overseas trip, but this year stood out as our Managing Director, Christina Tin, was honored with the prestigious Entrepreneur of the Year Award by ASME Singapore and Rotary Club of Singapore. This award is a testament to Christina's visionary leadership and dedication, driving CTES Consulting's success. We are immensely proud of her and thankful for this recognition. This milestone not only celebrates Christina’s individual achievement but also marks a significant moment in CTES’s journey. We extend heartfelt thanks to ASME Singapore, Rotary Club of Singapore, Enterprise Singapore, Maybank, Bestworld and all EYA's sponsors, our valued clients and partners, and our dearest CTES' colleagues for their continuous support. Congratulations to all the other winners recognized for their remarkable achievements. Here’s to many more years of growth and success together!

CTES Consulting, is deeply honored to join ASME in saluting our National Servicemen during the SAF Day combined rededication ceremony.

Happy SAF Day and a big Thank You to all our National Servicemen 🫡

This year, CTES opted for a unique annual D&F, breaking away from 17 years of traditional Christmas Dinner and Prizes. instead, we celebrated with a joyful family day in JB!❤️🎅🎄🥳🎊

Our CSR at Dignity Kitchen 👍
We are thankful and grateful to be invited by Mr. Koh Seng Choon, the Executive Director and founder of Dignity Kitchen, to hold our 2023 CSR activity there on November 23, 2023.
Thanks to Mr. Koh for the meaningful insights and sharing on Dignity Kitchen. All of us was highly motivated and moved by the purpose driven business operations and the inspiring success story. We are grateful for the opportunity to interact with the staff and serve the needy.
Not forgetting to mention, the food offered at Dignity Kitchen are really Michelin standard, superlicious dishes like fish and chips, claypot rice, nasi lemak beef rendang, kolo mee...so so yummy that we are already planning to return for more 🙂
Most importantly, what impacted us are 3 key takeaways - 1) the transformative potential of turning thoughts/cause into reality. 2)counting every day as a blessing, 3) commit time for Dignity Day once a month.
This is our best CSR day! So inspiring and meaningful for CTES and our employees, we are planning our next visit as we depart …Dignity Kitchen, we will be back soon….: 😊 😉

CTES is proud to be awarded TDA for the 2nd time !!😉
On November 20, 2023, we were honored to be presented the TDA award for the 2nd time. This recognition applauds and commemorates employers and civil resource owners who have made noteworthy contributions to National Service (NS) and Total Defence (TD).

Considering a Mid-Career Switch?
Tips for a Successful Mid-Career Change!
https://www.thebalancemoney.com/tips-for-a-successful-mid-career-change-4083208

Job interviews can be unpredictable and scary. You spend the night before tossing and turning, running through all the possible questions you might be asked and trying to craft the perfect responses. After meeting countless candidates and students, our team at CTES are all too familiar with these concerns. As such, we have compiled a list of some of the most frequently asked interview questions and how you can best respond to them.
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Celebrating Singapore 58th Birthday. 🎂 🇸🇬
Here to Happiness, Prosperity, Progress, Harmony, Abundance and Peace for our Nation 🥳🥳🙏🏻❤️❤️

Congratulation on your long service award
16 years !

Celebrating CTES 18th Anniversary in Osaka Japan!

How Skills Picked Up in NS Can Apply to the Commercial World

In all the years that we have been providing career counselling and coaching services, we have noticed and heard firsthand from our candidates that the skills they picked up in National Service (NS) have been extremely relevant to their professional lives.
Often deemed a rite of passage where boys become men, NS is the mandatory conscription and duty that every male citizen and Permanent Resident (PR) has to undergo upon turning 18 years old.
Even though some men recall their NS experiences as less than fond, NS undeniably does inculcate certain lifelong skills. These skills prepare men for commercial and professional aspects of their future, regardless of whether they decide to sign on as a regular or pursue other professions.
Here are some of the skills picked up from NS that we have seen to be transferable to an individual’s transition to the commercial world:
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Happy Father's Day !

As we prepare to celebrate Father’s Day, it’s a good time to reflect and thank Dad on the valuable advice from dads that can apply not just to life, but to careers.

Melinda Gates is a businesswoman and philanthropist. She is co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Here is her sharing about the Essential Quality She Inherited from her father.
“The best advice Dad ever gave me was to keep asking bold questions and looking for their answers. He knew that curiosity transforms everyday obstacles into exciting challenges to be solved — and that once you have that perspective, possibilities become limitless. You can, quite literally, aim for the stars.”
https://time.com/4821462/melinda-gates-advice-from-father/

Surviving the resume blackhole

In our years of experience conducting career workshop and training sessions, our courses on effective resume writing are always highly anticipated by our participants. Many individuals, regardless of their life stage, often struggle to craft a resume that effectively captivates potential employers. Therefore, we decided to gather some general tips and tricks from our training sessions to guide you through the different components of an ideal resume.

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Happy Vesak Day!
CTES wishes you a Happy Vesak Day! May you and your loved ones have peace, happiness and good health.

No matter what line of work you are in, working and interacting with others is inevitable. Handling people, managing conflicts and maintaining work relationships are all challenging things to do. Often times, we struggle to figure out how we can react the most appropriately to a particular work situation. This is why developing interpersonal skills at work is so important.

Here are three practical steps you can take to grow your interpersonal skills at work. https://ctes.com.sg/web/site/artDetail/93

In honor of Mother’s Day, we would like to share some of the top executives' sharing on their best career advice from their moms.

Mom out there, know that what you are doing is having an impact and making a difference.

Have a Happy Mother’s Day !

*Get outside your comfort zone*

Faizun Kamal says she’s not afraid to seek opportunities that make her feel uncomfortable because her mom always encouraged her to look for a job or project that would make her feel a little bit fearful or overwhelmed. “Her reasoning was when we did that we would push ourselves harder than others on the project, that our attention to detail would be greater, that in the end our results would be a product of hard work,” says Kamal, a franchise consultant at The Franchise Consulting Company.

Betty Ng, co-author of Po-Ling Power: Propelling Yourself and Others to Success, says her mom taught her the value of a mentor who could offer her a different perspective than her own. “One of the best pieces of advice from my mother that has served me through my career is to look for influence outside of your immediate community and social circles,” she says.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisaroepe/2018/05/10/executives-share-their-best-career-advice-from-mom/?sh=65c542d018b5

In commemoration of labour day, we wanted to celebrate our headhunters (also called executive recruiters) at CTES and the important work that they do for both organisations and candidates.

If you are new to the idea of headhunting, we hope that this sharing has helped you to better appreciate and understand what they do.

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If you are interested in exploring a career in recruitment and headhunting in CTES, you can visit our website to learn more.

From our team at CTES, we wish you a Happy Labour Day!

Selamat Hari Raya Adilfitri to all our Muslim friends and Happy Holidays to everyone!

Did you know?
CTES was founded in 2005 and initially focused on providing training and consulting for businesses, specifically in the areas of financial planning, organisation development, business strategy as well as talent acquisition and management. We have since then branched out to offering recruitment services and providing personal career advisory and coaching to candidates.
One of our career preparation programmes, our Career Transformation, Education, and Support Programme, focuses on supporting candidates in three main areas. These include Career Support (Reflections and Development), Career Education (Structured Training), and Career Transformation (Experiential Learning).

If you are interested in finding out more about our Career Transformation, Education, and Support Programme, feel free to contact us at [email protected] to find out more.

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In CTES, we often kick-start our career preparation and search services with expert-led Character Discovery sessions. Why is this important as a first step? Self exploration is crucial as it gives us better insight to our interests, aptitudes, and work-related values. This knowledge can help us make suitable choices in terms of what career to embark on, what work environments we are likely to thrive in, our work management style and much more.
What is MBTI? How can it help in my career?
Read to find out more about the importance of Character Discovery for your career through the use of MBTI® Assessment tools.

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Building a work environment where employees feel motivated, appreciated and engaged is pertinent at CTES.
Working in an environment where our colleagues and bosses demonstrate empathy can be a huge form of support and encouragement that keeps us going on tough days.
Here is an infographic containing data gathered from Autism Research Centre, Businessolver and SAGE on empathy at work.


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To all our fellow ladies, wishing you a Happy International Women's Day!
"Never doubt that you are valuable and powerful and deserving of every chance and opportunity in the world." - Hillary Clinton
Enjoy your day!

Effective Leadership In An Age Of Wicked Problems

Gig Economy
Part II: If You Are a Gig Worker
In our previous article, we shared more about what the gig economy is and the perks and challenges of being a gig worker. We also talked about the broad talent spectrum model and how companies are beginning to embrace the gig economy talent. If you are currently a gig worker who is feeling lost or unsure of how to grow your business, we hope that these four tips will be able to guide and encourage you.



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Gig Economy
Part I: What’s Happening in the Gig Economy
In part one of our series of articles on the gig economy, we share more about its background, the benefits it offers and the challenges it poses for both workers and businesses.

The gig economy has been around for many years. It started with freelancers from various industries and further expanded as ridesharing and food-delivery platforms began to rise in popularity. However, with the pandemic significantly disrupting traditional working arrangements in the past two years, many were forced to find alternate income sources and shift to remote working arrangements. Naturally, what followed was (and still is), the rapid growth of the gig economy.
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Five Popular Roles For 2023