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4,500 jobs, skills opportunities in social service and early childhood sectors: Masagos SINGAPORE — Some 4,500 jobs and skills opportunities will be available across the social service and early childhood sectors, and for persons with disabilities by end this year, said Minister for Social and Family Development Masagos Zulkifli on Friday (5 March) in Parliament during the ministrys Committee of Supply debate. Together with the National Council of Social Service (NCSS), the Ministry of Social...

As the situation was rapidly deteriorating in 2020, the government introduced unprecedented measures to bolster the Singapore economy and jobs market. This included the SGUnited Jobs & Skills Package, which had the aim to create 100,000 openings for jobseekers, as well as salary support schemes as the Jobs Support Scheme (JSS) and Jobs Growth Incentive (JGI). Read Also:  With the measures in place, there still remained the softer side of helping jobseekers overcome barriers to getting new j...

Source: Media Outreach SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 27 January 2021 – Singapore Semiconductor Industry Association (SSIA) is partnering JTC and e2i, electronics companies, academia, to launch a series of new initiatives to attract and retain talent, as well as make the electronics sector an attractive environment to work in. Even as many sectors scaled back in 2020, the electronics and semiconductor industry remains resilient. It continues to create good job opportunities and offer a va...

January 20, 2021 Losing your job at 60 could mean an early retirement. But not for Becky Chang. She lost no time in hunting for a new job. When her former company, a port and shipping agency operator, started trimming its workforce in recent years, the business unit manager had an inkling that she would be let go next. Soon enough, the company announced that her division was closing at the end of January 2020. Having worked more than 30 years in the shipping industry, Becky couldve called it a ...

Published: 16 December 2020 This gold winning organisation is committed to employees for the long-run - as such, it has introduced initiatives that help improve employee engagement, such as a flexi-time, flexi-place culture that gives employees more ownership over their time and projects.  With a gold win for Excellence in Learning and Development and a silver win for Excellence in Talent Acquisition at HR Excellence Awards 2020, Singapore, Prudential Assurance Company Singapore’s ...