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Professional conversion placements for workers fall in 2019
Much of the decline is due to fewer staff being reskilled and redeployed through the scheme
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The Government aims to double the number of mid-career workers who enter new jobs through reskilling programmes by 2025.
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Growing efforts to help mid-career workers transition into promising new jobs through professional conversion programmes (PCPs) might have hit a snag last year.
Data released by the Ministry of Manpower on June 30 showed that the number of PCP placements fell from 4,973 in 2018 to 4,450 in 2019.
