Hong Kong experienced a 24% decrease in the number of financial services job opportunities in Q1 of 2013 compared to Q1of 2012, according to the latest quarterly Job Barometer from eFinancialCareers.
Hong Kong experienced a 24% decrease in the number of financial services job opportunities in Q1 of 2013 compared to Q1of 2012, according to the latest quarterly Job Barometer from eFinancialCareers.
The recent forming of the Standard Working Hours Committee has once again sparked discussions around how to keep Hong Kong’s economy healthy and competitive.
To establish a successful and sustainable business in this sector, Hong Kong business people should consider adopting the principle of “Safe Cosmetics, and Healthy Body Shaping” plus an integrated 3-prone SBU model, comprising of Products, Services & Education.
Over 60% of organizations in North Asia particularly Hong Kong, Taiwan and Korea expect transformation in the areas of customer experience and care in 2013. Acquiring customers and reducing churn is their top business concern.
Employees are not unhappy and low on productivity in Hong Kong, in fact, they are amongst the world’s best but, then again, as the old saying goes, “there is always room for improvement and growth.”
Hong Kong is a 7 million inhabitants’ city where everything is accessible within 2 hours transportation and where the internet is omnipresent. Hong Kong makes the physical and the virtual worlds accessible to all.
Creating the right healthcare facilities and services for the people of Hong Kong including the growing aging population, is becoming an increasingly important issue for the Hong Kong government.
If you are a professional living and working in Hong Kong, then you probably spend a lot of time in attending breakfast sessions, day time conferences or evening cocktails - doing networking.
With the post-Chinese New Year job exodus well underway, headhunters' phones are working overtime, and HR departments are more like logistics supervisors as they tick off those out and those in.
I’m sure everyone knows by now that Cyprus is stealing 40% of private deposits and seizing entire accounts. This theft of private bank accounts is being hailed by the IMF as a "fully financed solution." Yeah, fully financed by stealing private deposits and sending the money to the banksters:
As a child, perhaps 99% of us had some “rare” possessions that we call them our own collection. On thehigh end, some of us were obsessed with baseball cards, comic books, or Star Wars memorabilia.
Today’s fast paced and highly competitive business environment has increased the pressure on Hong Kong businesses to succeed on a tough marketplace. Business owners in Hong Kong need a solution that removes the hassles of day-to-day running of an office so they can focus on increasing their bottom line and succeeding in any market.
Think back to how fast interfaces have changed in computing; I remember my parents taking a class in COBOL where they had to type their instruction set into a terminal, that then punched a paper card that was then fed into the computer. Not exactly fast, easy or intuitive.
The doom mongers haven’t long left. Hong Kong has but a few short months left of the free, anything-goes world, that has for decades led businesses to think of Hong Kong as the ‘big market, small government’ state.
Everyone wants to look great and feel great, men & women. Beauty salon and spa services became an integral part of the middle class lifestyle in the Mainland since Q1/2009, after 30+ years of successful economic reform, and the government’s encouragement to spend money and boost up domestic consumption.
The port, shipping and logistics sector is critical to the health of the HKSAR economy – transportation, storage, postal and courier services together employ almost 9% of Hong Kong’s population.
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