On My Own Terms: Career Switch for Millennials in Singapore
On My Own Terms: Career Switch for Millennials in Singapore
3. Best Jittida Haputpong on why you should not rush to find a job straight out of university, business vs tech roles at IBM, selecting mentors, startup compensation package and leaving banking to join early-stage startup Igloohome in 2016
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 colleague and leader. I’m really glad to have worked with her.
Some of the things we spoke about include:
- joining a market research firm as her first job and then quitting just after a few months
- joining IBM and seeing business vs technical roles
- selecting mentors
- breaking down startup compensation package
- why and how she took the plunge to leave banking to join igloohome which was a really early-stage startup back in 2016
This podcast episode was recorded in Aug 2021.
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About the host John Lim:
John Lim has had an unconventional career by Singapore / Asian standards - with several career switches. He started his career in banking before co-founding a laser tag events company. After building the business from ground-up, growing the team to 20+ and running Singapore's largest indoor laser tag center, he joined an early-stage tech startup to lead business development across Southeast Asia. In 2019, he took a leap of faith to join the e-commerce industry, seemingly unknown sector, until a few months later when Covid-19 pandemic brought the world to its knees.
While John finds himself lucky to have 'survived' the career switches relatively unscathed, he has never forgotten how it feels like to be at the crossroads of your career and life. Now, he has started this podcast - to provide the resources and perspectives he wished he had - and to help you make the most of your career to live your best life.
Join him as he speaks with unconventional career changers and risk-takers, taps into their experiences and perspectives and discusses all things career. Together, they will provide you nuggets of wisdom, inspiration and actionable insights to start living life on your own terms.
