Written Answer by Mrs Josephine Teo Minister for Manpower to PQ on Progress Update on the SGUnited Jobs and Skills Centres

NOTICE PAPER NO. 134 OF 2020 FOR 02 NOVEMBER SITTING

QUESTION NO. 207 FOR WRITTEN ANSWER

MP: Mr Gerald Giam

To ask the Minister for Manpower since the inception of the SGUnited Jobs and Skills Centres (a) how many jobseekers have sought assistance with the centres; and (b) how many have been successfully placed with jobs, with a breakdown of jobseekers' highest education levels and age groups.

Answer:

1. To help our local jobseekers access the available opportunities under the SGUnited Jobs and Skills Package, Workforce Singapore (WSG) has brought career matching services closer to the heartlands. WSG launched the SGUnited Jobs and Skills Centres in phases since early July. By end-August, one centre had been set up in each of the 24 HDB towns.
   
   
2. As of end-September, Career Ambassadors at these centres have advised around 6,000 jobseekers. As jobseekers are reached through multiple channels and assisted through a variety of means, it is therefore more useful to consider their collective impact. Between January and September this year, we have provided career matching services to about 51,700 jobseekers through various touchpoints such as the SGUnited Jobs and Skills Centres, as well as WSG’s and NTUC’s e2i’s five permanent career centres. Since the launch of the SGUnited Jobs and Skills Package in April 2020, we have placed 33,100 jobseekers into job, traineeship, attachment and training opportunities. This is in spite of a two-month lockdown and the deep economic recession. The breakdown of jobseekers placed into these opportunities by highest education qualifications and age is not available, but we have provided the breakdown by occupational profiles in Table 1 below. Majority of the jobseekers placed into jobs are in non-PMET roles.
   
   
3. We will continue to curate more opportunities, while seeking to increase placements of jobseekers.

Table 1: Number of jobseekers placed/enrolled into SGUnited Jobs and Skills Opportunities