Programme launched to ease PMETs back into the workforce

Singapore

LOCAL professionals, managers, executives and technicians (PMETs) looking to return to the workforce after a few years out of it must be active about breaching the main re-employment challenges, said NTUC Champion for Women and Family Desmond Choo on Thursday.

Doing so may entail accepting a lower-level job, and working at filling existing skills gaps, he said.

Speaking in a panel discussion at an NTUC U Family Returner-Employer Connect event, he noted that frustrated PMETs are unable to land new jobs, while employers are unable to find suitable candidates for their available positions. To bring these two groups t…