Mr Harry Yeo Hock Chuan is a real estate practitioner and trainer. He has a total of 41 years of work experience, with 19 years of teaching experience in real estate and other courses. Prior to joining the real estate agency industry, he was working in the private sector and has held senior executive positions at various organizations in Singapore, Malaysia and New Zealand.
Harry started his teaching career in 1996 by preparing students for the Common Examination For House Agents (CEHA). To-date, with more than 19 years of teaching and training experience in real estate courses to his credit, he has taught thousands of students who have successfully passed various real estate examinations.
Harry has authored two textbooks on real estate in the year 2011, for use by students in their preparation for their real estate examinations. He has also developed and written many Continuing Professional Development (CPD) courses for use by adult educators and learners to update and upgrade their real estate knowledge and skills. These CPD courses are recognized and approved by the Council for Estate Agencies, a statutory board under the Ministry of National Development. Harry has taught thousands of students in various CPD Courses, since 2011.
In the year 2002 to 2003, Harry was a facilitator and trainer at the Ong Teng Cheong Institute of Labour Studies (formerly known as Singapore Institute of Labour Studies, a training-arm of NTUC) for the Ministry of Manpower’s Workskills Training Programme (WSTP). The aim of WSTP then was to help Singaporean workers acquire essential labour market skills, during the economic downturn. The two-day (per run) facilitated training programme was run on similar lines to those of WSQ training programmes.
Today, Harry is a principal lecturer and adult educator for real estate courses at the Institute of Estate Agents, Singapore. He conducts training there for examination and non-examination courses. Harry holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Oklahoma City University of U.S.A. and several real estate qualifications from Singapore, including Certificate-in-CEHA, Certificate-in-REA, Certificate-in-RES and Certificate in Elements of Conveyancing Practice from SIM University.
Harry is also professionally-qualified. He is a Chartered Secretary & Chartered Banker by training. He has been admitted as an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators of the United Kingdom, as well as the Chartered Institute of Bankers of the United Kingdom. In addition, he also a Certified Financial Planner.
Harry also holds a Diploma in Adult and Continuing Education (DACE) and an Advanced Certificate in Training and Assessment (ACTA). He has, recently, developed a WSQ Courseware for the Institute of Estate Agents, Singapore (an Approved Training Organization) for Competency Unit Code SVCF-CS-102C- 1 (Competency Unit: Project a Positive and Professional Image), under the Service Excellence Framework.
