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  • Malaysian freelancer now can get jobs at a swipe with DuitDo-it

    Malaysian freelancer now can get jobs at a swipe with DuitDo-it

    Looking to earn extra income for Malaysians has just become easier with the launch of DuitDo-it.

    Working like the dating app Tinder, job seekers can apply for part-time and contract or freelance work with just one swipe.

    DuitDo-it is developed and owned by recruitment agency AP Symphony Search, as part of their CSR efforts to help Malaysians earn more while meeting the needs of employers nationwide who need part-time, contract or freelance staff desperately.

    The agency said in a statement here today that with the big pool of Malaysians like unemployed youths, school leavers, students, retirees and stay-at-home mothers available, companies can now fill their temporary manpower gap easily. This should help reduce the country’s high reliance on foreign labour which is causing a huge outflow of funds, it said.

    DutiDo-it is free for job seekers. It may be downloaded from Google Play. Individuals can also post jobs such as looking after their cats or plants, or doing sewing.

    Symphony said DuitDo-it also meets the workforce trend of freelancing. “More and more people are looking for non-nine-to-five jobs that allow them to have more flexibility and control over their time,” the agency added.

    Work such as website design, accounts preparation and make-up artist can be found on DuitDo-it.

    One of the unique features of DuitDo-it is the use of video resumes to allow for quick hiring.

    Every job seeker will have his own individual rating to help employers make fast hiring decisions. If selected by the employer, the job seeker has three hours to accept, according to the statement.

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  • Monthly salaries in Vietnam rise fastest in Southeast Asia

    Monthly salaries in Vietnam rise fastest in Southeast Asia

    Salaries in Vietnam are rising faster than in any other Southeast Asian country, according to a recent survey released by employment website Jobstreet.com.

    The average annual growth rate of Vietnam’s payroll stands at 20-24 percent, compared to 14-20 percent in Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia, Myanmar and Singapore.

    In Vietnam, management and executive salaries grew fastest, at 26 and 35 percent respectively.

    The survey found that 68 percent of companies operating in Vietnam want to expand their businesses in the future, so they have high recruitment demands. Jobstreetforecast that salary growth will continue with this demand.

    Vietnam’s minimum wage, however, doesn’t enjoy such a large jump. On Monday, the prime minister signed off on a decree raising the minimum wage for 2018 by 6.5 percent, the lowest nominal bump in 11 years.

    The rise brings the minimum wage for Region I to VND3.98 million ($175) a month. Region II to VND3.53 million, Region III to VND3.09 million and Region IV to VND2.76 million.

    In Vietnam, there are four different minimum wage regions, which are supposed to reflect the cost of living in each area. Region I, including Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, has the highest minimum wage, while region IV, which is for rural areas, has the lowest.

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  • 7-Eleven starts hiring ahead of Vietnam debut

    7-Eleven starts hiring ahead of Vietnam debut

    Japan’s convenience store chain 7-Eleven has started hiring staff for its Vietnam operation, as it seeks to expand retail business to one of Asia’s fastest-growing economies.

    The retailer is looking for full-time staff, including shop manager, salesperson, shop developer, marketing associate and trainer, all to be based in Ho Chi Minh City, Seven System Viet Nam Company said in a statement Monday.

    In 2015 7-Eleven’s U.S. subsidiary signed with the firm a licensing agreement to open stores in the Southeast Asian country.

    The date of opening or the number of outlets planned for the city are not yet disclosed. 7-Eleven has said the first store was expected in spring 2017.

    The launch of 7-Eleven stores is believed to heat the stiff competition among foreign investors in Vietnam’s retail market, which has grown at around 10 percent annually in recent years, and sales are likely to reach $109 billion in 2017, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit.

    7-Eleven, owned by Japan’s Seven & I Holdings, is an international chain of convenience stores with over 60,000 stores across 17 countries and territories. It has stores in five Southeast Asian markets, namely Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Indonesia.

  • LeEco Cuts 60 Jobs In Hong Kong

    LeEco Cuts 60 Jobs In Hong Kong

     LeEco may be one of the best-known Chinese smartphone vendors globally after Lenovo, Huawei and Xiaomi, but the company has been in severe financial stress in recent times. The Beijing-based firm recently ventured out of China to establish a global footprint, and towards that end, have entered quite a few new markets over the past couple of years, including India and the U.S.

    However, even as LeEco was marching ahead with its global ambitions, its holding company, Leishi Internet Information and Technology Corp, was struggling financially, with its shares recently halted from trading at the Shenzhen Stock exchange. LeEco itself has been facing a severe cash crunch, with the company’s CEO, Mr. Jia Yueting, even admitting that the expansion efforts “have gone too far”.

    With its finances starting to become a major issue, LeEco was recently rumored to have laid off 1,400 of its employees globally, with the bulk of the job cuts coming in India. While about 200 people at LeEco’s sports video-streaming subsidiary, LeSports, lost their jobs in China as part of an organizational restructuring, almost a thousand LeEco employees were reported to have been laid off in India, mostly in the company’s sales and retail divisions. Reports out of Hong Kong now suggests that the company is also laying off as many as 60 of its employees in its Hong Kong office, although, its existing businesses and membership services will all reportedly continue to function as usual.

    Even in the midst of all this doom and gloom, though, there is a glimmer of hope for LeEco if a recent interview by a senior company executive is anything to go by. According to the president of LeEco’s smart TV business, Mr. Liang Jun, the company has received a fresh round of funding from strategic investors, although, he’s refused to give out any specifics about the reported investments until now. Meanwhile, even though the company’s finances are in a mess right now, reports indicate that at least three LeEco devices with model numbers LE X920, LE X850 and LE X622 are all set to be launched in the coming months. Right now, there’s no timeframe for the launch, but it should happen sooner rather than later if everything goes well from here for the struggling company.

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  • Retail sector jobless rate rises to 5.4pc

    Retail sector jobless rate rises to 5.4pc

    Retail sector jobless rate rises to 5.4pc

    The Secretary for Labour and Welfare, Matthew Cheung Kin-chung, said today that on a year-on-year comparison, Hong Kong’s unemployment rate was 0.3 percentage point higher, with employment dipping for the 16th consecutive period.

    He was responding to the June to August period when both the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate and the underemployment rate was unchanged at 3.4 percent and 1.4 percent.

    Cheung said the retail sector was particularly hard hit by the fall in tourist spending and lackluster local consumption, with its unemployment rate up by 0.9 percentage point over a year earlier to 5.4 percent.

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  • Staff sought for Taiwan Apple Store

    Staff sought for Taiwan Apple Store

    US technology giant Apple has started advertising for staff for a Taiwan Apple Store.

    This follows the US technology giant raising US$1.38 billion in a bond offering last month on the island that is home to many companies in its supply chain.

    While Apple has confirmed plans to open its first store in Taiwan, the California-based company is tight-lipped on details. However, job postings on its website show it is seeking “a leader for personnel training plans for the Taiwan Apple Store” as well as other retail positions.

    Apple’s greater China revenue, which includes Hong Kong and Taiwan, slumped 26 per cent in its second fiscal quarter, with executives pointing the finger at Hong Kong for slipping sales. This year, its iPhones had their first-ever sales decline in the face of intense competition in the smartphone market.

  • $14m boost for PMETs to start new careers

    $14m boost for PMETs to start new careers

    An extra $14 million per year has been set aside for two years to help professionals, managers, executives and technicians (PMETs) who want to start new careers in sectors such as retail, food services and events, Manpower Minister Lim Swee Say said yesterday.

    This means a total of $40 million per year, up from $26 million previously, will be available to fund course fees and salary support through Professional Conversion Programmes (PCPs) from now until mid-2018.

    Mr Lim said the PCP initiative will be “critical” in minimising the gap between job opportunities and workers’ existing skills, which will grow as economic restructuring picks up pace.

    “A growing number of PMETs will find that their job experience and their job expertise in some cases may no longer be directly relevant to the job opportunities of the future,” he said, speaking to media at a career fair at the Lifelong Learning Institute in Paya Lebar.

    “More and more of them will have to learn new skills and start a new career in areas they may not be familiar with.”

    PMETs tend to make up a higher share of laid-off workers than their share of the resident workforce, according to Manpower Ministry data. The average PMET also takes longer than the average resident to get back into a job after being laid off.

    Four new PCPs were launched yesterday by the Singapore Workforce Development Agency (WDA) to provide job placement and skills training support for up to 80 retail store managers, assistant chefs, restaurant managers, project executives and assistant project managers each year. Information about applying for the programmes can be found on the WDA website.

    The additions bring the total number of PCPs to 31 across 14 sectors. By 2018, there will be programmes in 20 sectors, as part of the Adapt and Grow initiative announced in this year’s Budget.

    The WDA said it aims to help a total of 10,000 Singaporeans and permanent resident PMETs by then, up from the 7,000 already placed through PCPs so far. More programmes in sectors such as aerospace and public transport will be rolled out over the next few months.

    Some 25 industries, which contribute around 80 per cent of Singapore’s gross domestic product, are being transformed, and both employers and employees must adapt, said Mr Lim.

    Yesterday’s career fair was part of the first Adapt and Grow Career Series of fairs and workshops running this month with 3,000 jobs for Singaporeans and PRs, 1,200 of which are for PMET positions. The series will be held quarterly.

    Several employers at the fair who are offering roles under the new PCPs said they would consider moving staff up to managerial positions if they performed well in the entry-level role they are initially hired for.

    “After three months, we will evaluate and if they are very interested in other aspects of the business such as outlet management, we will look at opportunities for them,” said Mr Wong Wei Teck, 59, managing director of Soup Restaurant Group, who was on the lookout for operations staff such as assistant chefs.

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  • South Korea’s jobless rate falls to 3.9 pct in April

    South Korea’s jobless rate falls to 3.9 pct in April

    South Korea’s jobless rate fell in April as more people were hired in the accommodation and retail sectors, but the unemployment rate for young people still remained high, a government report showed Wednesday.

    The unemployment rate sank to 3.9 percent in April, from 4.3 percent in March. The seasonally adjusted jobless rate also dropped to 3.7 percent from 3.8 percent over the cited period.

    But job creation decreased from the previous month. The number of employed people stood at 26.2 million last month, up 252,000 from a year earlier. It is lower than the previous month’s 300,000 gain.

    The unemployment rate for young people, aged between 15 and 29, reached 10.9 percent last month, slightly down from 11.8 percent in March. It marked the highest number for the month of April.

  • Apple Begins Hiring for Flagship Chinese Retail Store in Macau

    Apple Begins Hiring for Flagship Chinese Retail Store in Macau

    Apple has posted several job listings for an upcoming retail store in Macau, a Special Administrative Region of China. The store is looking to fill Specialist, Creative, Genius, Store Leader and Manager positions, in addition to hiring for the Apple Store Leader Program and multiple business-related positions.

    Chinese-language newspaper Macao Daily reported in June that Apple is planning to open a flagship store in Macau, which is located across from Hong Kong, but the news went largely uncovered by mainstream media. At the time, the report claimed that Apple had not finalized a location for the upcoming store.

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    Apple celebrated the grand opening of its Apple Store in Brussels today, while two new Apple Stores also open in Nanjing, China and Florence, Italy today and September 26 respectively. Apple now operates over 460 retail stores worldwide.

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