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Time of India
26-05-2025
- Business
- Time of India
SkillsFuture Singapore: Over 315,000 Singaporeans Utilizing SkillsFuture's Digital Passport for Career Advancement, ETHRWorldSEA
Advt By , Agencies A growing number of Singaporeans are turning to the Careers and Skills Passport , an online tool launched by SkillsFuture Singapore (SSG) in November 2024, to strengthen their employability and streamline job applications. As of April 30, 315,000 individuals have used the platform to consolidate and verify their career, skills, and training records Designed in collaboration with the Ministry of Manpower, the Ministry of Education and GovTech, the tool offers workers a centralised and secure way to present verified professional credentials , academic qualifications, and skills acquired through SSG-funded or self-initiated training. These verified records can supplement résumés and be selectively shared with employers and job portals such as Jobstreet and FastJobs. So far, 4,900 users have shared their digital profiles with potential tool is part of a wider push by SSG to build a future-ready workforce as it marks its 10th anniversary in 2025. At a commemorative event attended by Prime Minister Lawrence Wong and key ministers, SSG also announced new workforce initiatives , including the upcoming SkillsFuture Jobseeker Support scheme. The scheme, launching later this year, will provide up to $6,000 over six months to lower- and middle-income job seekers who remain over 500,000 workers undergoing training annually and employer participation doubling to 24,000 since 2015, SSG is intensifying efforts to embed skills-first hiring and learning across industries. CEO Tan Kok Yam emphasised the need to support individuals in managing career health and enable businesses to hire based on skills rather than credentials alone.
New Paper
23-05-2025
- Business
- New Paper
315,000 Singaporeans have used new Career & Skills Passport by SSG
An online career and skills planning tool by SkillsFuture Singapore (SSG) has been used by 315,000 Singaporeans as of April 30. Launched in November 2024, the Careers and Skills Passport consolidates information about an individual's careers and skills from government-verified sites in one centralised and secured location, before being shared with current and potential employers. The SSG said that this tool can be used to supplement resumes and enhance online job applications with the provision of verified records. Users can choose which records they wish to share with partnering online job portals, such as Jobstreet and FastJobs. They can also generate a sharable link of their profile and share them directly with potential employers. To date, 4,900 users have shared date from their Careers and Skills Passport. Developed in collaboration with the Ministry of Manpower (MOM), Ministry of Education (MOE), and Government Technology Agency, the passport has four key components. The employment section contains verified data from the Central Provident Fund Board and MOM, such as employer name, employment period and occupation. The skills section contains an overview of verified skills from the user's certifications and from employer validation. Users can also add skills that they acquired on their own. The third section contains academic records from the Singapore Examinations and Assessment Board and Institutes of Higher Learning supported by the MOE. These include the Institute of Technical Education, polytechnics, autonomous universities, and the Arts Institutions. The final section contains verified professional training records, such as certifications from the Singapore Workforce Skills Qualifications and other SSG-funded courses. Similar to the skills section, users can also add their own certification records. The Careers and Skills Passport is one of the initiatives by SSG which marks its 10th anniversary in 2025, to encourage Singaporeans to upskill. Held at the Four Seasons Hotel, the anniversary event on May 23 was attended by the Prime Minister and Minister for Finance, Mr Lawrence Wong, Minister for Education, Mr Chan Chun Sing, Minister for Manpower, Dr Tan See Leng, and Minister of State for Education and Manpower, Ms Gan Siow Huang. About 300 education, enterprise, union and industry partners were also in attendance. The event also featured a panel discussion with individual, employer, union and government representatives, about how the SkillsFuture movement provides opportunities to upskill and stay competitive. As part of the 10th anniversary, SSG and Workforce Singapore will roll out a series of initiatives throughout the year. These include the rollout of the SkillsFuture Jobseeker Support scheme which aims to provide temporary financial support up to $6,000 over six months, to lower and middle-income jobseekers who are still unemployed. The Centre for Skills-First Practices will also be launched by SSG and the Institute for Adult Learning in the fourth quarter. Over the years, SkillsFuture initiatives have expanded to cover over 28,000 courses, ranging from full qualifications to short courses, offered by a training sector that includes IHLs and private providers with close links to the industry. More than 500,000 Singaporeans, - a fifth of the workforce - are trained every year. Since its inception in 2015, employer participation in the SkillsFuture movement has also doubled from 12,000 companies to 24,000 in 2024. The number of employees supported by their employers for SSG supported training also increased from 160,000 in 2015 to 241,000 in 2024. Mr Tan Kok Yam, Chief Executive of SSG said that in the next 10 years, the SkillsFuture movement will have to "level up" its support to Singaporeans, and give workers the tools and the confidence to thrive in an increasingly unpredictable world. "Under SkillsFuture, we will encourage individuals to be mindful of their career health, raise quality and relevance of learning, and help employers hire by skills and invest in their people," he said.
