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We are living in an increasingly VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous) World. The pandemic that is sweeping the globe is just the latest example of the new normal. What started out as a health crisis has metamorphosed into a financial crisis. Many have lost their livelihoods as the economy has taken a dramatic turn for the worse. We may be entering a global depression. The future seems more uncertain than ever.
In this brave new world, entrepreneurship has been touted as a career of choice, and entrepreneurship has become one of the most pursued career choices globally. But is entrepreneurship for everyone? Could it be overrated as a career choice, glamorized by the media in “rags to riches” stories, an easy get rich path to money, fame and IPO? Does every entrepreneurial journey have a happy ending? Is there a dark side to entrepreneurship?


Entrepreneur as a career choice, is it... or not? Come find out for yourself…
Join Anuj Jain, Co-founder & CEO of Startup-O, Bernadette Cho, General Manager of Entrepreneur First (EF) Singapore, and Yen-Lu Chow, Co-founder of Asia Institute of Mentoring, serial entrepreneur, angel investor and social change maker, in a fireside chat to explore the topic of Entrepreneurship as a Career Choice.

Synopsis
Anxiety and panic continue to dominate active job seekers who live in the midst of the worst recession ever. Besides hundreds of thousands of job losses due to global market disruption, the pandemic has brought about a drastic change in the way we work and live, resulting in certain jobs becoming obsolete.

However, it is not all doom and gloom, many businesses are still hiring during this period, especially those in the digital economy, banking and finance, insurance, healthcare, education, technology, cyber-security and government. The surge of digitization across various business functions and processes has also created new jobs that didn’t exist before.

But the job competition will be more intense. Job seekers will need to work harder than ever to market themselves as employees of choice. What should job seekers do to stand out among the crowd? And where should they look? What are the in-demand areas where one could look to up-skill?

Find out more from our panel of experts in this Fireside Chat. You'll learn:

How to power up your job search

How to ace your interview to land the job you love

Learn how Artificial Intelligence recruitment tools have changed the traditional recruitment process and hiring behaviour

Discover what kind of jobs and industries are trending in the next 3 years and beyond

How Artificial Intelligence can help with your skill gap analysis

While many sales reps are struggling to conduct sales engagement remotely, the most successful ones understand how to achieve this through phone and video-based calls using Hangouts, Teams, and Zoom. So how can you more effectively use technology for non-face-to-face selling?

In this session you’ll learn how to:
/ Find Your Audience
/ Demonstrate Your Expertise
/ Deliver Sales Presentations

Huan Song is a SOCO Certified sales trainer, blended learning coach, and curriculum designer. He has years of experience in business development, retail sales, and strategic enterprise account management. In his most recent stint, he was a Business Development Manager focused on B2B sales and sales management.

Huan Song is also one of the co-founders of a technology startup that successfully raised Series A funding. He is passionate about sales and is fluent in English and Mandarin.

A video on the benefits of mentoring to partner with the article from http://learningyourdevelopment.com entitled Mentoring: A Win-Win-Win for Mentees, Mentors and Organisations at http://bit.ly/1gMMrBc

Feedback on the AIM/EnactUS event on Mentoring in the Social Sphere.

Although mentoring in the workplace has been there for a long time, the way it is structured is sometimes complicated.
Sometimes supervisors are required to be mentors and sometimes mentoring is really another word for managing performance.
What are the best ways to set up mentoring in the workplace?

Facilitators
-Lita Nithyananda
-Deepali Jain