Financial Literacy for Youth
Financial literacy is a core life skill for everybody, and this is compounded in 2021. Children grow up in increasingly complex worlds where they will eventually need to take charge…
Tag: financial management
Creating Your Own Safety Nets in Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship is a risky business because you will be venturing into the unknown without a safety net. In creating a supportive environment here, Sarawak provides a handful of supporting elements…
Literacy enrichment for young adults
Career Advice, Digital Economy, Education, Entrepreneurship, Newspaper Column
IN today’s environment, literacy as noted by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) enables the ‘identification, understanding, interpretation, creation, and communication in an increasingly digital, text-mediated, information-rich…
Spending habits you should avoid
Career Advice, Newspaper Column
If there’s one requirement youths need to have in becoming a full-fledged working adult, it would be managing your own finances. It’s among the first few experiences you will face…
Gig economy: do you have your safety net?
Career Advice, Digital Economy, Education, Newspaper Column
The rise of the digital economy brings exciting opportunities to those working in the gig economy. The gig economy is characterised by short-term contracts for freelance workers or contractors to…
School leavers – things to keep in mind
After spending years on completing a formal education, you’ve finally left school. So now you may be thinking, what’s next? Moving on to the next step seems like the hardest…
Millennials and money matters
Career Advice, Education, Newspaper Column
As a young working adult, managing your finances may seem daunting and even impossible at times. It’s easy for people to blame this situation as simply a case of millennials…