57: Jin Choeh on common startups HR issues, GDP on digital transformation and new people management lessons

Jin Choeh [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jin-choeh/] founded Swingvy with his co-founders in 2016 with a mission to create a workplace where work empowers people. As a founder, he focuses on product, team building, fundraising, market expansion, and team culture. Prior to founding Swingvy [https://www.swingvy.com/], he worked at AhnLab as a regional manager for the South-East Asia market covering six countries: Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines. He also co-founded two startups Zibro and Ssamtong, which are online real-estate platform and tutor matching platform respectively. Jin grew up in Korea, France, Japan, and the US, and has an Architectural Engineering degree from Hanyang University in Korea. What I discussed with Jin * The key HR issues he observed during his first two startups * Why digital transformation adoption co-relate to a country's GDP * The people management lesson he learned during COVID-19 * How the talent pool has radically widened due to the pandemic * The State of Employee Benefits in Singapore eBook [https://content.swingvy.com/employee-benefits-singapore-ebook] * And many more... Please enjoy! --- This episode is brought to you by Wanted. Wanted is a career platform from Korea, with over 10,000 companies and 2 million users using the platform for talent recruitment and career growth. Since 2015, Wanted's mission has been to bring fulfilment and happiness to all professionals around the world, offering the best job opportunities and best-in-class career content to support professional learning and growth. Adding on to the growth and innovation, Wanted introduces to you, RoundUp.  RoundUp is a video interview collaboration tool for every team. With a simple download of the Chrome browser extension, RoundUp invites you and your team to host hiring interviews on Google Meet, share interview evaluations, then round up all interviewer comments in a single dashboard; all to help your team efficiently reach the best hiring decision. It is currently free and available on roundup.ai [https://bit.ly/2Ua2Bgp] --- Who should I speak with next? Please let me know at adrian@adriantan.com.sg Did you enjoy this episode? If so, please leave a short review [https://podcasts.apple.com/sg/podcast/the-adrian-tan-show/id1525515088]. It will help bring the episode to more people. 📲 Follow me online: * Youtube @AdrianTan18 [https://www.youtube.com/c/AdrianTan18] * Twitter @adriantan18 [https://twitter.com/adriantan18] * Facebook @adtan [https://www.facebook.com/adtan] * LinkedIn @adriantanck [https://www.linkedin.com/in/adriantanck/] * adriantan.com.sg [https://adriantan.com.sg/]