Make A Difference To Your CV

(25th Oct 2012)
A curriculum vitae (CV) or resume provides a summary or listing of your relevant job experience and education. Sound quite simple but how to impress the potential employers by a catching CV?


Ms Jenne Foo, Marketing and Service Director of ERCI will show you how. With 5 years of banking experience in both the off-shore and local banks, dealing with Monetary Authority of Singapore reporting as well as personal financial consultancy with customers. She also has 10 years experience in the education industry spanning across various scope ranging from lecturing, Head of Departments, Student Services as well as service training. Therefore, she is fully qualified to guide us how to improve our CV.

During the workshop, she emphasised the SWOT analysis because she believed that if you know your strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) well, you will be able to differentiate yourself from the competition. Besides that, she illustrated the “Do’s” and “Don’ts” when creating a resume. This workshop is very helpful for students, especially for graduating students who are seeking for jobs. By creating an impressive CV mark the very foundation of getting yourself noticed by potential employers.

Amazing Race Student Orientation

20^th October 2012 (Saturday)

Before we focus on the highlights of our Amazing Race, let us show our heartfelt Thanks to Moove Media for sponsoring 300 badges for our Amazing Race. And our beloved Student Council, for their commitment in making this event a success. You guys rock!

Early Saturday morning, our Student Council members gathered at ERCI River Valley ready to kickstart the much-awaited Student Orientation Amazing Race in Orchard Road. At 8:30am, participating students arrived at ERCI RV. Our Student Council members took care of the registration at the reception of ERCI RV. They’ve given out Moove Media Badges for all participating students by dividing them into different groups. In the Amazing Race, there are six stations along Orchard Road where our students are given hints to find the stations. They have to accomplish one challenge at each station. The challenges ranged from games like transformers, passing marbles, to dancing Gangnam Style with passer-bys on the street. Cool, isn’t it? The team that finishes all the challenges at six stations within the shortest time wins the race.

Our first prize winner was Team Naughty They beat the rest of the competing teams with their great teamwork and fast responses. After a morning of walking and running, all the student participants and Student Council are tired. Yet, you can still see the happy and satisfies look on our students’ faces.

With this Amazing Race, students get to interact and bond with one another. They learn about the importance of teamwork and how it helps in achieving a common goal despite of the different background where they originate from. This platform also serves as a catalyst for the students in igniting new friendships among them at ERC Institute.

Executive Networking Seminar

(13th September 2012)

"Your success in life isn't based on your ability to simply change. It is based on your ability to change faster than your competition, customers and business." This is a memorable as well as practical quotation created by Mark Sanborn.

On 13th September 2012, the theories of Change Management were brought to life by Dr Tay Chor Ter. Dr Tay is our Adjunct Lecturer and Member of Academic Board from ERC Institute. Most of our attendees are working professionals, current MBA students and even entrepreneurs from the real business world.

Dr Tay shared insights about the interesting topicof how to “Ride the Waves of Change” and be successful in the business world. He triggered the enthusiasm of the audience by creating an interactive and friendly environment. The last session was the sharing session of our very own University of Wolverhampton’s MBA students and working professionals - Mr Terrence Ong and Mr Ken Leong. They shared about their own practical experiences in the corporate and business world.

At the end of the seminar, everyone mingled and networked with one another over the buffet dinner and exchanged name cards and contacts.

Beyond gaining knowledge from the seminar, most of them have a chance to meet professionals from different fields of business and expand their network. Without any doubt, it was a good and beneficial platform for all attendees to broaden their professional network and insights.

World Tamil Youth Conference 2012

(20 – 22 July 2012)

The World Tamil Youth Conference 2012 was an initiative endeavoured by National University of Singapore’s Tamil Language Society (NUS TLS) 33^RD Executive Committee. Conventionally the discussion group is held every 2 years by NUS TLS. The uniqueness of this conference was meant to understand the degree of proficiency of the Tamil language especially amongst the youths and find new avenues to improve them.

There were wide array of issues discussed during the seminar. The papers were presented by academics, counselors, students and scholars from Canada, United States of America, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and other countries around the world. The subjects discussed ranged from classical Tamil literature to development of Tamil cinema today.

The 3-day event was commenced by an opening ceremony held at the Guild House. There were festival events and one of the celebrities was the veteran speaker of Sun TV, Mr. Gopinath. There were also local Vasantham Central stars who appeared at this event.

In the 3-day forum, participants have learned more about the Tamil identity and how to inculcate its values and the language especially amongst the youths. Representatives of tertiary institutions and schools, lecturers, family members, counselors were strongly engaged in the open discussion. This has alleviated some of the problems and found new ways on how to further enhance the beauty of the Tamil language.

As students and academics of ERC Institute, we actively participated in the open discussion and took this opportunity to interact with professionals, academics, fellow students and the general public. With such an intellectual stimulating and engaging platform, we are definitely looking forward to participate actively in similar conferences in future.

 

FURAMA RIVERFRONT HOTEL INDUSTRY VISIT

(18 SEPTEMBER 2012)

Furama International is an award-winning chain of mid-range hotels situated in the vibrant Asia Pacific region, Furama hotels offer leisure and business travellers alike a well-appointed backdrop to indulge in restful play and invigorating work.

Furama Hotels International Management (FHI), a Singapore-based hotel management company, is committed to offering excellent accommodation choices in key global cities backed by the drive to promote memorable guest experiences. Currently, her presence in 6 key cities avails more than 7,500 rooms, with numbers growing as the company expands globally.

On September 18, 2012, our students from the Advanced Diploma in Business Administration (Tourism & Hospitality Management) had the opportunity to visit Furama RiverFront Hotel, which is situated at Havelock Road. It is one of the locally-owned hotels, situated near the Singapore River; offering guests with a wide range of amenities and well-equipped guest rooms. Mr. Gwee EAM of Furama RiverFront Hotel conducted a 15-minute brief history and introduction of Furama Hotels. Students also had the opportunity to view different guest rooms, back-of-the house such as the kitchens, banquet preparation room, etc.

After the visit, our students not only gain new insights into hotel operations, some of them have even expressed their interest to join the company after graduation.

Participants:

25 students + 2 lecturers

Briefing by Mr. Gwee

Tour of the guest room

Tour of the amenities

   Tour of back-of-the-house: Kitchen