Teething problems in job-matching sorted: minister

Mindy Tan

Published Wed, Oct 14, 2020 · 09:50 PM

Singapore

SOME kinks emerged early in the drive to match job-seekers with opportunities, but these have since been ironed out, said Manpower Minister Josephine Teo in Parliament on Wednesday.

More than 20,500 traineeship and company attachment opportunities have been made available, and more than 2,800 local job-seekers have been helped under the SGUnited Jobs and Skills Package, she said.

"I would acknowledge that in the earliest stages, it did take them (the Singapore Business Federation) quite a while to assemble the team and to process the applications for host companies. I would also say that because the programme was very new at …