42,000 unemployed find jobs through Spur
THE report card for the Singapore Workforce Development Agency's (WDA) Skills Programme for Upgrading and Resilience (Spur) is out.
The programme has trained more people than it aimed to, found jobs for many trainees who were unemployed, and saved countless others from being retrenched.
Started in November last year, the programme has enrolled 264,000 workers in its various training courses, exceeding the target of 220,000.
The programme also helped about 42,000 of them - unemployed citizens and permanent residents - find jobs, mainly in the food-and-beverage, cleaning, wholesale and retail-trade, manufacturing, and security sectors.
About seven in 10 were rank-and-file workers with up to secondary education. Six in 10 were aged 40 and above.
In addition, more than 2,770 others were given traineeships in more than 390 firms, under a government-funded Professional Skills Programme Traineeship scheme launched in May this year.
The jobless workers had been among 88,000 workers who had approached the WDA of their own accord. Others were employed but looking to acquire new skills for a career switch.
The rest - 169,000 workers who made up two thirds of the whole pool - were sent by 4,000 companies, which tapped Spur to cut costs, save jobs, and help displaced workers gain new skills and jobs.
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The programme has trained more people than it aimed to, found jobs for many trainees who were unemployed, and saved countless others from being retrenched.
Started in November last year, the programme has enrolled 264,000 workers in its various training courses, exceeding the target of 220,000.
The programme also helped about 42,000 of them - unemployed citizens and permanent residents - find jobs, mainly in the food-and-beverage, cleaning, wholesale and retail-trade, manufacturing, and security sectors.
About seven in 10 were rank-and-file workers with up to secondary education. Six in 10 were aged 40 and above.
In addition, more than 2,770 others were given traineeships in more than 390 firms, under a government-funded Professional Skills Programme Traineeship scheme launched in May this year.
The jobless workers had been among 88,000 workers who had approached the WDA of their own accord. Others were employed but looking to acquire new skills for a career switch.
The rest - 169,000 workers who made up two thirds of the whole pool - were sent by 4,000 companies, which tapped Spur to cut costs, save jobs, and help displaced workers gain new skills and jobs.
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