Learning from your mistakes
Career Advice, Education, Newspaper Column
At SarawakYES! we always emphasise the need to learn from mistakes, whether it’s for our career, education or personal growth. Yet we live in a world where not everyone can…
Category: Education
Things to consider when updating your resume
Career Advice, Education, Newspaper Column
If you’re thinking of breaking into a new career or changing jobs, updating your resume should be one of the first things to do. The resume you prepared when you…
How to deal with a new job task?
Career Advice, Education, Newspaper Column
If you’re a graduate who just joined the workforce, you’ll find that some job tasks are nearly akin to some experience during your internship or activities in your university. But…
The other side of peer pressure
Career Advice, Education, Newspaper Column
Peer pressure has a bad reputation as it has been largely used in the negative context. Among the youths, peer pressure is a well discussed topic where it receives mostly…
Should you join your alumni association?
Career Advice, Education, Newspaper Column
Your days in school and college may be some of the most memorable moments in your life but now that you’ve been working for a few years, have you ever…
Making time for self-reflection
Career Advice, Education, Newspaper Column
In a world where we’re always on the go and where we tend to get distracted by so many things (especially our mobile devices), we should pause from time to…
Tips to studying effectively
With lots of facts to memorise and absorb, there are times when studying seems more like a chore. Studying may appear effortless for some students, but for others the struggle…
Overcoming peer pressure
If you’re currently studying in a college or university, there may be times where you find yourself doing something you won’t normally do, in order to fit into a social…
When the career path chooses you
Career Advice, Education, Newspaper Column
For some of you fresh graduates, there is a high chance that you may not be able to land a job that’s related to what you studied in college or…
Have a break
Career Advice, Education, Newspaper Column
It used to be said that those who worked for long hours without any intermission were considered hardworking and productive, but that’s not really the case. More scientific studies have…