How professionals across APAC are navigating job changes, pivots, and promotions.
I graduated from NUS in December and started applying for marketing roles in January. My lecturer told me the going rate for a fresh grad in marketing was around SGD 4,000 to 4,500. So when I got to the offer stage with a mid-sized agency in Tanjong...
I was a Regional Head of Operations for a European bank in Hong Kong. Fourteen years. Good performance reviews, decent relationships, the lot. Then in March they restructured the Asia desk and my role was "consolidated" into a global function...
I moved from Jakarta to Singapore two years ago. My husband got transferred and I was looking for finance roles here. Back home I was a Senior Accountant at a manufacturing company, so I thought it would be quite straightforward to find something...
I was a Regional Head of Operations for a European bank in Hong Kong. Fourteen years. Good performance reviews, decent relationships, the lot. Then in March they restructured the Asia desk and my role was "consolidated" into a global function...
I was doing well. Enterprise software sales, based in Sydney, OTE around AUD 180K and I was hitting it. Good team. Good product. On paper, everything was sweet. I quit in February. People thought I was mad. My manager...
Five years. That's how long I was out. My youngest started P1 this year and I decided it was time. I used to be in HR — talent acquisition, specifically. I was pretty good at it. Ironic, then, that I found applying for jobs myself...
I was a software engineer for six years. Mostly frontend. React, TypeScript, that kind of thing. Good at it, comfortable, but I kept finding myself more interested in the why than the how. Why are we building this feature? Who asked for it?...