The Women Netpreneur programme focuses on helping women entrepreneurs to kickstart and grow their businesses online. 

The projection is a part of the "Quarterly Labour Market Perspectives-Stabilisation of Labour Market in the Post-Crisis Periods" report Socso issued yesterday.

Selangor is offering a financing scheme to encourage business digitalisation via the Go Digital Scheme. If you are a small or a micro-entrepreneur residing in Selangor, this is your chance!

The two newest financing schemes are the Informal Financing Scheme (SPIN) 2.0 and the Covid Business Recovery Financing Scheme (CBRM) 2.0

Malaysia's unemployment rate increased to 4.8% in June 2021, after four consecutive months of decline.

Malaysia saw the number of unemployed graduates increase by 22.5 per cent. In 2019, there were 165,200 unemployed graduates, which grew to 202,400 in 2020.

SMERF is currently offering financing amounts of up to RM250,000 or up to 90 per cent of the eligible items' total costs with a meagre interest rate of 3%. 

In the future, a hybrid work arrangement may be the best policy to ensure that workers can still stay productive while in the office and enjoy the comfort of working from home.

This arrangement would include employees working either in the office, from home or at split locations. Maybank will be the first financial institution in Malaysia to adopt a hybrid work environment.

We should never give up when it comes to hiring top performers. If our initial approach seems broken, we should adjust our recruiting strategy instead.