While hard, technical skills remain important, increasingly, employers are placing a greater emphasis on soft skills as well.
Soft skills — non-technical skills which include how one interacts with colleagues, solves problems and manages work – are impervious to change and applicable to any workplace and across all professions.
In this video, our partners Xavier CHOW, GlobalFoundries Singapore; Regina TAN, Tan Tock Seng Hospital; and Yoona DU, GenScript Biotech (Singapore), share on the skill sets they look for in their hires and interns.
“We have barely scratched the surface of Timor-Leste’s biodiversity. New discoveries can have profound impacts on conservation and policy-making.”
In August 2022, we led an expedition to Timor-Leste in collaboration with Conservation International and the government of Timor-Leste. The Museum’s herpetologist, Dr CHAN Kin Onn, discovered a new species of bent-toed gecko which was named Cyrtodactylus santana, in reference to the Nino Konis Santana National Park, in which the gecko was discovered.