Jobs targeted at foreign labour, poor attitudes behind traineeship mismatch
Foreign staff crunch may see posts for manicurists, kitchen hands; but negative attitudes to some jobs also need to change: economists
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WITH thousands of traineeships available to fresh graduates across multiple sectors, it seems not all is doom and gloom in Singapore's job market amid the pandemic.
But a closer look at the jobs offered under the SGUnited Traineeships Programme throws some light on the supply-demand mismatch that surfaced about four months into the traineeship programme, under which the government co-funds 80 per cent of each worker's training allowance.
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