Wantedly, Inc. (Singapore)

Embarking on a job search fresh out of university is an exciting milestone! However, it can feel discouraging when the countless resumes that you send in are met with rejection emails or no replies.Andrew Tan, Country Manager from job search platform Wantedly, aims to connect job seekers just lik...

This is Amy, from the HR team at Wantedly. Last time, I wrote 4 quick tips HR executives could use to make their job descriptions more accessible. In that post I briefly touched on the concept of the casual interview, so for this article, I will go into more detail on what the casual interview is...

Theory: Schlossberg transition theory “4 trades that you need, that you effectively need to go through every transition”The road often travelledI was brought up to expect career pathways to be mostly linear. Striving to remain in the same profession meant becoming more indispensable, and therefor...

It’s a new year! Looking back at numbers, we observe a 50 percent growth in new user sign-ups when we compared data from 2019 to 2020, which is a significant increase. What attributes to the growth? These numbers suggest that now more than ever, people are looking for new employment opportunities...

So you’ve held the hiring meeting.You’ve been given a list of requirements, conditions, and responsibilities and now you’re tasked with creating a job description that hits on every single one, a seemingly impossible task.If you resonate with this, you’re not alone. Writing a comprehensive, engag...

This Story was first written for our company's internal engagement and published in Wantedly's Internal Story, but in this season of Giving, I thought to share it again, publicly this time, to help raise awareness for those in need.If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one. - Mother ...

To all working professionals, (soon-to-be) graduates and kind visitors:Ohaiyo! This is Gisele from Wantedly. I joined the Singapore team as a Business Operations Intern back in April 2020; the same month that Phase 1 lockdown commenced in Singapore. Oh what a starting journey that was!Fun fact 1:...

“Alone, we can do so little; together, we can do so much” – Helen KellerThe Straits Times, featured Wantedly Singapore's hiring freeze tracker in the Sunday Times' Portraits of Purpose series. In this COVID-19 weekly feature celebrating "heroes" in the community, we were lauded for our initiative...

An internship is one of the best ways to put one foot into an industry, with an opportunity to put your learnings in school to actual application. I’ve always wanted to experience the “start-up” working environment, and Wantedly stood out most to me.Wantedly is a technology company which is more ...

Every office is full of different things — stationery, Starbucks’ coffee cups, unhealthy snacks — but it is not full of robots. We come in all shapes and sizes, with our style and flair that we bring to the office.As a team leader, understanding the personality types of the different members can ...

On 10th June, Young NTUC had its second run of LIT DISCOvery Symposium, which is an online symposium aimed to encourage youths to make use of the time they have now to learn new things, and design a career strategy that charts their path towards their targeted job opportunities. Wantedly was prou...

Jack of All Trades, Master of NoneOriginally a compliment, the phrase has been shortened to imply that a person isn't skilful or talented in any areas.Well, I am a walking example of it — a generalist rather than a specialist. Someone who likes to learn and do various things, while not having a s...

Mentor for Hope was officially launched via a virtual event with close to 200 live attendes on Facebook Live!VENTURE CAPITALISTS AND INDUSTRY LEADERS UNITE TO SUPPORT STARTUP COMMUNITY IN FIRST-OF-KIND MENTORING AND CHARITY FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGNVertex Ventures, Sequoia India, Big Idea Ventures, Sa...

As contributed by Andrew Tan, Country Manager, Wantedly Singapore for entrepreneur.com"Know how businesses react to current conditions will shape their future attractiveness to talent and ability to retain staff"It will not have escaped your notice that the Covid-19 crisis is already breaking cou...

As originally contributed by Daniel Ng, via Wantedly Hong KongFor a lot of jobseekers, this is potentially the first time in their career that they're going through a global recession. While we're in a very stressful and uncertain times, there is still hope out there yet, and so we’re here see ho...