All in Advice

Sharing Session with SMU students in Jan 2022: (Brief) Summary of career journey, Interviewing at Shopify and Perspectives on starting early career

Sharing Session with SMU students in Jan 2022: (Brief) Summary of career journey, Interviewing at Shopify and Perspectives on starting early career

John Lim
Advice, How I Went About, Reflections, Career

This video was made as a presentation to students at Singapore Management University (SMU), my alma mater, as part of a wider presentation / sharing session together with my Shopify colleagues. Video was filmed on 28 Jan 2022 and presented on 31 Jan 2022. Here lies summary of the video content.

3 Lessons I Learnt at Lazada

3 Lessons I Learnt at Lazada

John Lim
Reflections, How I Went About, Advice

Some background and context:

  • My tenure at Lazada spans from Nov 20219 to Jan 2022, a little over 2 years

  • It’s my opinion that e-commerce is a fast-moving industry, further accelerated by factors like Covid19 and competitors’ movements in the time I was at the company

  • I had 2 separate roles within my tenure - 1. merchant acquisition for LazMall (a channel within Lazada) 2. business development for Lazada omnichannel solutions (details on my LinkedIn)

  • Internally, I worked with local and regional teams and across functions like customer care team, product & tech teams

  • More than 60% of my tenure was Working-from-Home (WFH)