Drive to boost infrastructure talent with mid-career PMETs

Singapore

INTERNATIONAL Enterprise (IE) Singapore is launching a new programme to match and train mid-career professionals for the infrastructure sector.

The move aims to bolster the local talent pool in a sector that has to-date been fairly reliant on foreign talent.

It is also to help Singaporeans build specific, customised skill sets so that companies can take part in overseas infrastructure projects, amid an expected boom in project volume in Asia.

The Professional Conversion Programme (PCP) for Global Ready Infrastructure Talent (GRIT) aims to train PMETs (professionals, managers, executives and technicians) with skills in areas such as infrastructure project financing, project transactional advisory and project …