20/08/2021
Skillsfuture Month 2021
Over 100 Partners, 300 Learning Activities and 100,000 participants
SkillsFuture Month 2021, which started on 8 July 2021, concludes on
22 August 2021 with the SkillsFuture Roadshow at Suntec City. The annual
learning event is supported by more than 100 partners, including
enterprises, trade associations and chambers, unions and community
groups. SkillsFuture Month offered over 300 learning activities that
reached out to over 100,000 participants.
Singaporeans benefitted from various skills and jobs events organised
that allowed them to access various training and employment
opportunities. These include the:
SkillsFuture Roadshow, a one-stop event where
individuals can get access to information and guidance on growth
sectors, training opportunities and assistance schemes to help
Singaporeans upskill. NTUC’s e2i and various employers will also be
on-site to provide career advice, job interviews and opportunities.
SkillsFuture Month X Smart Nation 2021, a series of
physical roadshows and webinars co-organised by SSG and Smart Nation
and Digital Government Office (SNDGO), attracted over 15,000
individuals. The event aimed to help more Singaporeans, especially those
without a tech background to pursue a career in the growing Information
and Communications Technology sector.
SkillsFuture@CDC, a virtual event organised by the
five CDCs, which comprised 25 virtual workshops and Facebook Live
sessions covering employability skills, critical core skills, and
lifelong learning topics, attracted close to 15,000 participants from
the two-week campaign.To foster greater diversity and inclusivity, SkillsFuture Month also
expanded our offerings to more target audiences, such as residents of
Pertapis Halfway House to help them gain access to relevant training to
increase their employability and to support their re-integration into
society. We also supported the Education and Career Guidance efforts for
tertiary students and fresh graduates through curated, innovative
events such as World X, a virtual career exploration event with
volunteer group The Astronauts Collective, and the Twitter Career
Roadshow.
Companies, especially SMEs, also benefitted from various learning activities organised for them. These include the:
SkillsFuture Forum, which was a moderated
roundtable discussion attended by over 200 enterprises. Guest-of-Honour
MOS Gan, was joined by industry leaders including Microsoft, Grab and
Phoon Huat, who shared best practices that enterprises could adopt for
business transformation to augment their employee’s skill sets.
Logistics Redefined Learning & Job Fair
co-organised by JTC Corporation and SSG. Close to 100 enterprises
attended the Post-COVID - Improving Supply Chain Efficiency webinar, to
gain insights on how they could gear up to improve supply chain
connectivity, visibility and efficiency as we move into a post-COVID
era.
AI Digitalisation to Grow Your SME Business, a
webinar co-organised with the Singapore Institute of Retail Studies
(SIRS) and Heartland Enterprise Centre Singapore (HECS) to share with
SMEs about key business elements to operate as a global business, and to
signpost SkillsFuture initiatives such as SkillsFuture Queen Bees,
SkillsFuture Enterprise Credit (SFEC) and more, to support enterprises
in their business transformation.
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