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Government traineeship scheme eases out amid supply-demand mismatch

More positions than applicants so Workforce Singapore directing new interest from employers to SGUnited programme for mid-career applicants

Singapore

EMPLOYERS looking to host potential workers under the SGUnited Traineeships Programme are being encouraged to offer positions to mid-career individuals under another programme instead.

This is because the traineeship programme, under which the government covers 80 per cent of each worker's training allowance, has more positions available than the number of fresh or recent graduates likely to take them up.

This supply-demand mismatch has cropped up about four months into the programme.

Workforce Singapore (WSG), responding to queries from The Business Times (BT), noted that there had been a "strong response" from earlier batches of host organisations, which must be companies registered or...

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