Question:
I operate a SME (small and medium enterprise), and have just hired an intern to help out in my company over the next few months. How can I best manage my intern so that we have a mutually beneficial working arrangement?

Answer:
Firstly, you need to understand that an intern is fundamentally unlike your average employee, for the very simple fact that he or she lacks proper working experience. An intern’s goal is generally to gain valuable work experience in an industry that (hopefully) interests him or her, and this internship usually is undertaken while he or she is still in school or has recently graduated.

An internship is a great platform to bigger and better career opportunities. Not only will it give you exposure and experience in the industry, it helps you build connections. So how do you take full advantage of the internship period?

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By Jacelyn Lim

In the midst of searching for that “perfect holiday job”, I felt like my friends were slowly morphing into sloths.

Meet Mr Sloth who lives to sleep and eat. He moves so slow he’d resemble your grandpa walking on the streets.

While I can’t comprehend the extent of procrastination some of my friends have adopted, many people have also questioned my sanity when I applied for an office job with fixed working days when I could - and should, as my aching tendons tried to convince me- have rested for the next 6 months while taking up a temporary job.

In fact, many of my friends are still taking their time AS JANUARY BEGINS TO BID FAREWELL, in finding one.

“This job’s paying me too low.”

“This job requires me to SWEEP THE FLOOR.”

“All the workers there are foreigners.”

“The uniform is so ugly!”

“I have to wake up at 7am if I were to work here!”