SINGAPORE: More than 20,500 traineeship and company attachment opportunities have been made available under the SGUnited Traineeship and SGUnited Mid-Career programmes, Manpower Minister Josephine Teo said on Wednesday .
Mrs Teo was responding to questions posed by Nee Soon GRC Member of Parliament Carrie Tan and Bukit Panjang SMC MP Liang Eng Hwa about the programmes.In its eighth job situation report released last Wednesday, the Ministry of Manpower said there “continues to be mismatches in expectations and skills”, according to ground feedback.
Less than a third of the opportunities created under the SGUnited Jobs and Skills Package vacancies have been filled. As of end-August, out of the 117,500 opportunities available through the SGUnited Jobs and Skills Package,"Although the focus must now be for the host companies to secure more successful placements, the SBF continues to accept new applications by companies to host attachments for mid-career individuals that commence before Mar 31, 2021," she said.
“After suitable matches are found and necessary supporting documents are submitted to SBF, the traineeship or company attachment can commence," Mrs Teo added. Mrs Teo said that while it took SBF a while to assemble the team and process the applications,"right now, actually, the action is really less on the SBF and more on the companies to get this done".Between January and August, about 44,200 job seekers have been provided career matching services through the SGUnited Jobs and Skills centres, as well as Workforce Singapore and NTUC's e2i's five permanent career centres.