Implementation is key when building skills for the future

SINGAPORE'S workforce transformation must be a tripartite enterprise. At its core is skills-building where a "skills lens" should apply to all decisions, whether it is a company's talent strategy or personal career roadmap.

Ensuring that Singaporeans have deep skills for the future and are inspired to learn throughout their lives has emerged as a key nation-building effort in recent times, following the recommendations by the Committee for the Future Economy.

To that end, various Industry Transformation Maps (ITM), which aim to foster synergies across industries by leveraging skills adjacencies to support the provision of skilled manpower, are now set in motion.

The Skills Framework, which is an integral part of each ITM, was established to provide a common skills repository for individuals, employers and training providers, as well as support skills acquisition through training programmes to enhance individual emplo…