On My Own Terms: Career Change | Life Pivot | Success Redefined

During a career switch, it is common to assume that one needs to take a pay cut when joining a completely different industry to "start from scratch".  Or in job hunting, the candidate with the most relevant job experience should be the most obvious choice.  Both not necessarily true. If you're currently in the service industry looking to pivot to a corporate job or if you feel like your current ca...

In this solo episode,  I share the 3 lessons I learnt during my time at Lazada Nov 2019 - Jan 2022. I had front row seat watching the world rushing to pivot to e-commerce when Covid19 brought the world to its knees in early 2020. Lazada is one of the biggest e-commerce operators in Southeast Asia. They were founded in 2012 and they currently operate in six countries: Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia...

It is one thing to have a career change. It is another to do it while you're uprooting your life to move to another country with no social network. It is one thing to start a business. It is another to start a social enterprise where you're chasing other outcomes other than just financial sustainability. Simon Lieberum has done all of the above.  If you are curious about sustainability and social...

Not everyone can easily and/or necessarily need to make drastic career changes immediately to get more fulfilment. You can start a side hustle or passion project  while keeping your day job.   This episode is about side hustles and hustling. Bethia Wee is the Sales Development Lead for small and medium businesses at Aspire . It is self-described as the all-in-one finance operating system for busin...

Hi everyone, this is another special solo episode. This is a recording for a presentation I did for Singapore Management University (SMU) students in Jan 2022. It consists of three main parts: Brief summary of my career journey so far (skip this if you’ve heard Ep 12) My experience interviewing and getting my current role at Shopify My 4 Advice / takeaways on career Although the recording was prep...

Yaohong Ch’ng is the Head of Data and Engineering at January Capital, a venture capital (VC) firm based in Singapore. He is responsible for building data-driven solutions that will complement January Capital’s investment process. Before that, he was the Head of Data at StashAway, a digital wealth manager that has assets of more than USD $1 billion under management. As employee #2, he helped build...

Sean Goh   is the co-founder of UglyFood , Singapore-based food startup whose mission is to eliminate food waste and revamp the food ecosystem. UglyFood aims to make sustainability a part of people’s everyday lives. They operate in the fruits and vegetables space by selling excess or ugly produce, their own branded products, and sustainably sourced goods. Before UglyFood, Sean spent 12 years acros...

Hi everyone, this is a solo episode where I will share my career journey thus far. I will tell you why and focus on the 3 career transition chapters: From banking 🏦 to laser tag 🔫 From employer to startup employee From untimely departure to ecommerce industry in Covid19 Let me know what you think / contact me directly at johnlimcy@gmail.com. Do kindly let me know your thoughts of such solo episo...

Hi everyone, this is a special episode (more of such to come) - to give everyone a quick review for 2022 and let everyone know what to expect in 2023. We launched an  email newsletter  - click to subscribe ! 3 things to do after listening to this episode: Rate and review this podcast wherever you are listening or watching from - go ahead, don’t be shy and leave us a 5 star review :) Spread the wor...

Our guest speaker, Terng Shing Chen , more commonly known as Terng, is the CEO and founder of SYNC PR , a technology company that provides public relations and content marketing. Before founding SYNC PR, he had an illustrious career as an in-house public relations (PR) employee and in PR agencies. Some of the clients and brands he has worked with include Razer, GrabTaxi (Grab), Paktor and MyDoc. T...

Our guest speaker, Terng Shing Chen , more commonly known as Terng, is the CEO and founder of SYNC PR , a technology company that provides public relations and content marketing. Before founding SYNC PR, he had an illustrious career as an in-house public relations (PR) employee and in PR agencies. Some of the clients and brands he has worked with include Razer, GrabTaxi (Grab), Paktor and MyDoc. T...

Our guest speaker, Terng Shing Chen , more commonly known as Terng, is the CEO and founder of SYNC PR , a technology company that provides public relations and content marketing. Before founding SYNC PR, he had an illustrious career as an in-house public relations (PR) employee and in PR agencies. Some of the clients and brands he has worked with include Razer, GrabTaxi (Grab), Paktor and MyDoc. T...

Imagine this: you’re at the peak of your career. You have a great job, maybe even a great boss, and you’re making good money. You’ve made it. Most people would say that this is where life gets easier—you’re already successful, now all you need is a little more money and fewer hours at work and everything will be perfect. But there’s one guy who didn’t think so. He quit his job and started over fro...

Imagine this: you’re at the peak of your career. You have a great job, maybe even a great boss, and you’re making good money. You’ve made it. Most people would say that this is where life gets easier—you’re already successful, now all you need is a little more money and fewer hours at work and everything will be perfect. But there’s one guy who didn’t think so. He quit his job and started over fro...

“Imagine you are now dead, what would people say about how you lived your life?” If you think career change is only for those in their early careers or with unfortunate circumstances, you need to listen to Joval’s inspirational story. Joval Gan is currently co-founder and chief revenue officer of Advocado , a cloud-based loyalty consumer engagement platform for small and medium enterprises. In his...

If you think career change is only for those in their early careers or with unfortunate circumstances, you need to listen to Joval’s inspirational story. Joval Gan is currently co-founder and chief revenue officer of Advocado , a cloud-based loyalty consumer engagement platform for small and medium enterprises. In his first job straight out from university, he joined a direct sales and marketing c...

Best Jittida Haputpong is Vice President of Business Development at Igloohome (at time of recording), a tech startup from singapore which produces smart access solutions. 🔒🔒 Best and I are ex-colleagues at Igloohome. (In this episode, we use Igloohome and Igloocompany interchangeably - Igloohome has been rebranded as Igloocompany). My opinion on Best - she is incredibly smart 🧠; she was a great...

If you are curious about joining the tech startup scene 🧑‍💻, aspiring to be an entrepreneur or thinking about making a big career change 💼, do not miss this episode. Matthew Low started his career at Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) , a statutory board under the Ministry of Trade and Industry of Singapore in 2009 before moving on to Resorts World Sentosa (RWS) . He stumbled...

Aaron Wong graduated from Singapore Management University with a summa cum laude in corporate communications. His first job out of university was at Changi Airport Group being a senior associate at Airport operations management, a role that was completely unrelated to what he studied.  He then joined HubSpot as an associate customer support specialist. HubSpot is a US-listed software company for i...

Why would a top graduate quit his lucrative and stable career in an established company to join an unknown and unproven startup? Why would someone, after slogging hard for more than 10 years, arrived at the peak of his career, enjoying the fancy expat lifestyle, quit everything and returned to his home country with his wife and young daughter with no job and no backup plan? What's technology...