The opening of new malls and hotels will produce jobs in the retail sector, and food and beverage, as well as hospitality, while others are to be found in construction, security, interactive digital media and childcare. --ST PHOTO: ALPHONSUS CHERN
AT LEAST 45,000 new jobs will be up for grabs in the next two years, with many of them suitable for professionals, managers, executives and technicians (PMETs).
In giving the update on Monday, Acting Manpower Minister Gan Kim Yong also listed where they are to be found.
Switching to social work
MID-CAREER PMETs will be trained as social workers under a new professional conversion programme.
They will undergo a two-year bachelor's degree or a 14-month graduate diploma programme run by UniSIM, the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports (MCYS) said yesterday.
But he had a word of advice for jobless PMETs: Be flexible and go for training to get the right skills for jobs in new industries.
Mr Gan was replying to MPs Irene Ng (Tampines GRC), Lim Wee Kiak (Sembawang GRC), Zaqy Mohamad (Hong Kah GRC) and Penny Low (Pasir Ris-
Punggol GRC), who had highlighted their plight.
He told the House the two integrated resorts will create more than 20,000 jobs and the public sector, 18,000.
Also, new investments will create 6,000 jobs, including about 1,200 in clean technology and about 900 in biomedical sciences.
The opening of new malls and hotels will produce jobs in the retail sector, and food and beverage, as well as hospitality, while others are to be found in construction, security, interactive digital media and childcare.
Separately, Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports Vivian Balakrishnan listed about 2,000 jobs in the childcare sector and 2,500 in social services over the next five years.
Read the full story in today's edition of The Straits Times.
