Manpower Ministry launches new skills programme to help PMETs
SINGAPORE: The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) and the Workforce Development Agency (WDA) are introducing a new scheme to help professionals, managers, executives and technicians (PMETs) to survive the current recession.
Called the Professional Skills Programme (PSP), it will bring together all current skills upgrading and job assistance schemes.
The PSP was announced during a tripartite forum between Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and some 550 union and business leaders on Sunday.
All courses offered under PSP will receive funding under the Skills Programme for Upgrading and Resilience or SPUR.
Besides helping PMETs switch to new occupations such as registered nurses and pre-school teachers, PSP will also have skills upgrading courses to help PMETs improve in their speciality.
For example, financial industry professionals can specialise in risk management or product control at the Risk Management Institute at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Financial Training Institute at the Singapore Management University (SMU).
Other examples include engineering professionals in the pharmaceutical and biologics sectors who could take the Specialised Training Programme in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing (Validation) to become validation specialists.
There will also be tertiary upgrading for PMETs through degree and post-graduate courses under the enhanced SPUR programme.
Over the next few months, a list of programmes will be introduced such as the Master of Science Programme in Integrated Circuit Design at NTU-TUM (Technical University of Munich) for integrated circuit design engineers or a Double Master of Science Programme in Logistics and Supply Chain Management at NUS-Georgia Institute of Technology for logistics and supply chain specialists.
MOM and WDA said that more will be introduced progressively in coming months.
PMETs can also opt for leadership and management skills training.
There will also be career workshops for PMETs to build up communication skills, interview, resume writing and networking skills. More information on the PSP is available at the WDA website.
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We can read some of these articles from newspaper. This blog should strive to investigate more unreported retrenchment that are ongoing in Singapore & not some irrelevant reports.
I was retrenched and has signed up for one of the programme under SPUR or PMET. Sometimes I wonder how it will help me find a job; what I have is just theoretical background, and employers are looking for people with practical background. Right now, those who got retrenched, like me, can only HOPE.
There is a job fair to be held in Suntec Convention from 5-8 Mar 09. You can always try out. However, I have to warn you as years ago myself had ever been to the same job fair but mostly private or overseas schools set up stands to hope for ppl to sign up for their courses instead. Not sure if this time round there are really some decent jobs available for ppl to apply.
I can understand how loops feels. I was retrenched too…took up one of the programmes under SPUR. But, if there is no vacancy, how can 1 find job even if you are equipped with the knowledge? On top of that, employers are not interested in ppl without prior experience at all. In addition, I visited the portal for job listing in public sector, majority requires at least a degree. What about retrenched experience person without a degree like most of us?
Govt Dept jobs mostly requires at least a Polytechnique Diploma to a degree from NUS, NTU or SMU. Private school degree holders are going to have a hard time finding a job during these bad times.