New skills recognition initiatives for built environment and infrastructure sectors, HR professionals
Individuals can obtain the Chartered Engineering Technologist certification through workplace learning
MORE employers can now formally recognise the skills acquired by their employees through training and upskilling efforts, following the launch of two skills recognition initiatives on Wednesday (Aug 21).
First, the Institution of Engineers, Singapore, is partnering Singapore Polytechnic to establish an assessment centre.
This will enable individuals to obtain the Chartered Engineering Technologist certification in the built environment and infrastructure sectors through workplace learning, in addition to the existing training-and-assessment approach.
Current practising technologists – such as resident technical officers – will be able to complete competency assessments for this certification, and be acknowledged for the skills they have already acquired and shown in their roles, even if they do not have formal academic qualifications.
The announcement was made during the SkillsFuture Human Capital Conference on Wednesday, where Minister of State for Education and Manpower Gan Siow Huang was the guest of honour.
The conference, organised by the Singapore Business Federation (SBF) and supported by SkillsFuture Singapore and the Lifelong Learning Institute, marked the end of the six-week SkillsFuture Festival, which opened on Jul 9.
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Separately, on Wednesday, the Institute for Human Resource Professionals (IHRP) rolled out two new role badges in workplace learning.
One came from a collaboration with the Institute for Adult Learning; the other arose from a partnership with the National Centre of Excellence for Workplace Learning, led by Nanyang Polytechnic (NYP).
HR professionals and people managers can obtain the badges through formal education and on-the-job pathways.
The skills acquired from these badges can then be applied to implement or improve workplace learning systems, enhance career development processes and opportunities, and strengthen the culture of learning within organisations.
At Wednesday’s conference, a new SkillsFuture “Queen Bee” company was appointed – this time, from the wholesale trade sector. (A Queen Bee is an industry leader that mentors SMEs within its industry on workforce development and business transformation.)
FoodXervices, from the wholesale trade sector serving the food-services segment, will share its experience and support its value chain of more than 4,000 corporate customers, as well as other small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), in adopting sustainability and digitalisation initiatives.
The company’s appointment brings the total number of appointed SkillsFuture Queen Bees to 36.
During the conference, SBF also inked three bilateral memoranda of understanding with IHRP, NYP and Republic Polytechnic (RP).
SBF and IHRP will work together on manpower policy developments and organise workshops to help SMEs adopt progressive employment practices.
Its partnership with NYP will focus on developing workforce capabilities for the wholesale trade sector through courses, work-study programmes and industry attachments in areas such as customer analytics, customer experience and digital media.
SBF and RP will jointly develop certification programmes and co-curate workshops for SMEs in areas such as sustainability, supply chains and internationalisation.
SBF will also partner RP’s Centre of Innovation for Supply Chain Management under the Jobs Development Partners Programme to reskill employees to support business transformation.
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