Institute of Life

Been writing on Linkedin for 7 years. Here are my tips to help you get more followers and engagement on LinkedIn.

Life cannot be just about making money and buying things, right?”.

- Why reveal failures?
- How to develop a portfolio career with multiple sources of income?
- What is a combo specialist?
- Why have a signature dish?

These are some of the questions that will be answered via LinkedIn Live on Mar 16th 8am Singapore time (Mar 15th 5pm PST).

Link to join LinkedIn Learning event is in comment

Chris Mattia Chua Hong Koon Lawrence Sim World Scientific Singapore

Finally a book on career skills we can use in schools to help students and professionals achieve success at work and in life. Love the IOL logo on the spine of the book.

Written by our founder, Eric Sim and eFinancialCareers' Simon Mortlock

Available on Amazon, and at 卓爾书店 the zall bookstore, Kinokuniya Singapore Main Store , Bookazine

One way to improve yourself is to engage with successful people and let them inspire you. How can you find successful people? Below are nine habits of successful people. Which habits do you have?

The Adecco Group, a provider of human resources solutions, analyzed the views of 8,000 workers in eight countries to examine short-term and continuing impact of pandemic on the future of the workplace.

The result shows that nearly 77% of respondents believe the support of remote office skills is very important. At the same time, there is a general desire for more digital skills (e.g., video presentation), creative thinking, and soft skills such as teamwork, interpersonal communication and problem solving to adapt to future workplace trends.

As employees are slowly returning to office, which skill do you think is most critical for them to acquire assuming companies allow hybrid, i.e, a mix of working at home and in office?

Please fill the poll linked below to share your view.

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Which one resonates with you the most? What other habits should employees have?

Promoted employees typically exhibit these seven habits:

1. Take the initiative to communicate with the leader without disturbing the leadership
2. Do more than others and never lack the spirit of active work
3. Have more responsibility for their work than the average employee
4. Team spirit, mutual trust, mutual tolerance
5. Pay attention to your image
6. Continuous innovation in the work
7. Punctuality without delay

Which habit resonates with you? Should employees have other good habits?



Eric Sim

Rejected by Princeton’s PhD program, he was devastated he couldn’t embark on an academic career. It took him 16 years to finally get his adjunct associate professorship. While waiting, he made managing director at a bulge-bracket investment bank and founded Institute of Life (IOL) whose mission is to train professionals to be successful in work and life. Here are Eric Sim's seven actionable tips to help advance your career. Which one resonates with you the most?

Link to the article in the comments.

With flexible work arrangements, now is a great time to develop your side hustle! Besides getting extra income, you will make your lives more fulfilling.

Here are 4 surprising benefits of starting a side hustle:

1. Achieve deeper self-awareness - understanding of personal strengths and weaknesses
2. Cultivate killer relationship – networking with like-minded individuals with myriad new opportunities
3. Develop outstanding creativity – utilizing full potential and skills to break through daily routine
4. Turn your side hustle into a job you love!

The only thing that matters is whether you take action today.

What are some of the side hustles we can do?

Which of the 2025 skills you think are most important because of the impact of Covid-19 on the job market?

Given the impact of the outbreak on the job market, which skills do you think are most important in 2025?

2020
1 Solve complex problems
2 Critical thinking
3 Creativity
4 People management
5 Coordinate with others
6 E.D
7 Judgment/decision.com
8 Service orientation
9 Negotiations
10 Cognitive flexibility

2025
1 Analyze thinking
2 Active learning
3 Solve complex problems
4 Critical thinking
5 Creativity
6 Leadership
7 Use and control of technology
8 Technical design
9 Toughness and flexibility
10 Reasoning and ideas

#职业生涯 #个人提升 #人生学院

The education landscape is changing from pure academics to a combined structure of academics with life and career skills.

It was a short webinar full of gems organized by OECD and ERIA on innovative approaches and trends in higher education.

Key takeaways:
1. Higher education should have the responsibility to ensure social mobility.
2. Cross-disciplinary education will become increasingly important as most world problems cannot be solved by a single discipline.
3. PIN (persuasion, influence & negotiation) skill, digital skills and social capital should be taught in higher education.
4. Entrepreneur mindset will become essential in future labour market.