A hotel employee greeting a guest at Marina Bay Sands. The resort in Singapore is still looking to fill some job vacancies. — Picture courtesy of Marina Bay Sands/Facebook via TODAY
Minister for Manpower Josephine Teo said yesterday it was “interesting” that throughout this period, there was still hiring although the hiring demand in tourism was lower than before. Through the Job Redesign Place-and-Train Programme for the hotel industry and the Digital Marketing Reskilling Programme for Mice , more than 1,400 workers across more than 100 hotels and tourism companies have been or are being retrained and redeployed into new and higher value-added roles, Teo revealed.
“For example, they saw an opportunity for work-from-hotel packages. Not everyone finds it easy to work from home. So there were people who wanted to work from hotels, and so they were able to pull together some packages. On its job portal, vacancies for a logistics attendant, interior design manager, security officer, steward, cyber-threat responder, auditor and others were listed.
While part of the hiring is to replace work pass holders who have left Singapore to go back to their home countries as well as Malaysian workers impeded from coming here by the country’s Movement Control Order, new job opportunities are also being created, because businesses are having to pivot, she added.