The Business Times

Jobs and skills

Opinion & Features

The global race for talent is about systems, not geography

Among UOB’s efforts to enhance its employee upskilling and reskilling initiatives is a memorandum of understanding signed with the Institute of Banking and Finance, Workforce Singapore and Ngee Ann Polytechnic.
ASEAN Business

In a world of AI, UOB’s future playbook begins with its people

The smoothness of transitions between school and work affects both youth well-being and also the adaptability of the broader economy, says the writer.
Opinion & Features

Early-career continuity is a competitive advantage

The move aims to ensure that course information is accurate and transparent and learners' interests are protected.
Singapore

SkillsFuture trainers to be banned from using third-party marketing from Dec 1

More than half of Indonesia’s workers still rely on casual jobs. These positions are more likely to be irregular, offering little security and meagre wages.
Opinion & Features

Gen Z’s rage in Asia is stoked by a staggering jobs crisis

SIA’s reliance on a largely Singapore-based workforce, while central to its identity, magnifies its exposure to domestic cost pressures and makes its labour model less flexible in responding to global trends.
Opinion & Features
THE BROAD VIEW

Singapore Airlines: Still a great way to work?

NTUC is working with tripartite partners to ensure senior workers have real choices, flexibility and dignity, with fair access to AI-related training and upskilling opportunities.
Singapore

Labour MP Patrick Tay suggests jobseeker support for higher-paid retrenched workers, new workgroup to protect workers in AI age

Blending permanent teams with freelance, contract or remote talent gives organisations the agility to respond to market shifts, access specialised skills and control costs more effectively.
Career Guide

Singapore’s youth employment crunch demands a new vision for work

Ang Wee Seng (front right), executive director of the Singapore Semiconductor Industry Association, and Patrick Tay (front left), executive secretary of the United Workers of Electronics & Electrical Industries, sign a memorandum of understanding on skills development. Witnessing the ceremony is Minister for National Development Chee Hong Tat (centre back).
Singapore

Innovation is key for Singapore’s semicon sector to ride, not be swept by, wave of tech breakthroughs: Chee Hong Tat

The SkillsFuture Jobseeker Support Scheme provides temporary financial support of up to S$6,000 over six months to support involuntarily unemployed individuals' job-search efforts.
Singapore

About 60% of 7,200 applications for Jobseeker Support Scheme rejected so far

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