When we first started Glints, we were living and working out of a shophouse (known locally in Indonesia as a “ruko”). Here...
Inside Glints
From the team who brings you career discovery & development opportunities
Our Philosophy Towards Employee Perks
The Hustle, a weekly email newsletter for entrepreneurs, recently published an excellent post on why fancy perks like catered lunches, playground-offices and ridiculous benefits won’t make you happy with your job. The article’s worth a read but in brief, staff perks and benefits are generally divided into two categories — [...]
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Employer Dashboard Overhaul, Applicant Tracking, Facebook/LinkedIn Logins, and more!
Hello friends of Glints! My name is Yong Jie, and I am the Technical Lead for Glints. This is the first product release announcement I’m making on this blog, and I’m very excited to announce that we have released Version 4.5 of the Glints Platform. This release is mainly geared towards our employers, but there are a few notable [...]
Yong Jie Wong
An Unbeatable Experience
I remember vividly how eager I was when I stepped into the office during my first day. I was awed by their trust, flexibility and cooperation. I immediately hit it off with my fellow colleagues and interns. It was an enjoyable experience working with this group of young talents who are as excited as I was about the future. Best of all, we [...]
Oswald Yeo
Glints Completes Beta
200,000 years ago, the first human appeared on Earth. The human race discovered that hunting in groups was more effective than as individuals. They selected the best from each tribe for every night’s hunt, in order to enjoy the best cuts of meat. Over the years, this selection process continued. Family referred family, friends referred [...]
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Why We Do Creative Job Descriptions
Did you change my job description? If you posted a job on Glints in July or August 2015, probably. Why? We were running a site-wide experiment to better understand what increases quality applications. How do we engage the attention of job-seekers, highlight the unique culture to work at each employer on Glints, and draw in quality candidates [...]
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5 Levels of Leadership
Delegation. Sounds like a dirty word. As if someone above threw you a ball, and they only shouted “Catch!” when the ball was already in mid-air. Yet delegation is critical. Our scope of work and roles have grown rapidly through the past 2 years, and earlier this year, the 3 of us founders realised we had to build a team. We wanted [...]
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An Internship Like No Other – My Glints Internship
The other thing I really liked about Glints is the people there. They are so friendly and energetic, that the energy spreads to everybody in the team. We even had a sponsored 2 day 1 night trip to Johor Bharu which was so much fun, and where we had a team meeting in a pool. My internship at Glints was an incredible experience I would never [...]
Oswald Yeo
Client Success Manifesto
Client Success Manifesto We relentlessly focus on results Our clients pay us for results, not activity. We build strong relationships People don’t work with businesses. People work with people. Our clients work with us, not the company. We respond fast Prompt responses bring about satisfaction. We reply all emails within 24 hours and [...]
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Reading List for Marketing Team
Marketing. Advertising. Social Media. Search. Many ideas and thoughts come to mind when marketing is brought up. To us, marketing is about creating connections with our users (or prospective users) and making a promise to them. Ads and campaigns don’t define our marketing. Our connections and partnerships defines us. Check out the reading [...]
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Reading List for Client Success Team
Following up from our general reading list, the client success role in our team is about creating a positive client experience. We don’t like to think of our clients as customers. If you use the thesaurus, both clients and customer are synonymous. But we aren’t Britannica and the key difference between clients and customers is [...]
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