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Despite submitting more than 70 resumes in two months earlier this year, the architecture graduate did not receive a single job offer.
So when the SGUnited Internship Program was launched in June, 25-year-old Mr. Pung Li Kuang, who returned to Singapore after graduating from the University of New South Wales in Australia last December, immediately signed up. .
Now, with just three months into your internship, you may have found your calling.
As a civil design engineer intern at Greyline Solution, a new division created by interior design firm WEDA StudioInc, Mr. Pung helps other companies adopt pre-fab containers as temporary housing for migrant workers, a project aligned with his own design ideals for good causes.
He told The New Paper: “It has been an adventure. Although this is not really my experience, I have learned a lot.”
As of late August, 33,100 locals have found work or training positions with the help of various government schemes, including the SGUnited Internship Program, the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) said yesterday in its weekly jobs report.
This represents an increase of 9,100 from the 24,000 job applicants who were successfully placed at the end of July. And 29,580 of the 33,100 obtained jobs, an increase of 5,580 since the end of July.
More also accepted long-term jobs, as placements in jobs of less than 12 months fell from 58% to 55%.
This was primarily due to an earlier focus on placing job seekers in short-term public sector jobs to handle the increase in Covid-19-related operations, MOM said.
A total of 117,500 new jobs, training and outreach opportunities have been created under SGUnited’s $ 2 billion Jobs and Skills Package, surpassing the initial goal of creating 100,000 opportunities when it was announced in May.
Of these opportunities, 70 percent are jobs, MOM said.
“This is good progress,” Human Resources Minister Josephine Teo said in a briefing yesterday.
She said, “We are not only making progress in terms of gathering opportunities. There is also very good progress in placing people. Getting placed in jobs is a high priority.”
Despite this, MOM noted that a significant number of vacancies remain unfilled due to a continuing mismatch in expectations and skills.
“The focus now should be to try to fill as many of those vacancies as possible … We will have to place great emphasis on matching positions,” said Ms. Teo.
He urged employers and job seekers to keep an open mind, urging employers to look beyond candidates who are exactly compatible and focus on transferable skills.
He advised job seekers to consider seeking career guidance early.
Ms. Intan Adam, 47, was unable to get a job after more than 60 applications in more than a year.
In August of last year, she turned to Workforce Singapore, who helped her improve her resume and online profile.
WEDA StudioInc recruited Ms Intan in April this year after finding her profile on MyCareersFuture.
He had to accept a 20 percent pay cut, but in May he was helping establish the Greyline Solution, which in turn recruited Mr. Pung after he enrolled in the SGUnited program.
Ms. Intan said: “I don’t know if it will be easier now that there are a lot of government initiatives, but I hope people looking for work never give up.
Meanwhile, Mr. Pung is taking courses and working towards a diploma related to his current job. He said, “If you don’t try, you will never know. I had never thought of a position as a civil design engineer.”
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