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SINGAPORE: The South East Community Development Council (South East CDC) is responding to calls for a more concerted and quicker response to tackle the problem of jobless professionals, managers, executives and technicians (PMETs).
It is rolling out a series of monthly employability workshops targeted at retrenched PMETs to help them repackage their skills and make them more marketable to companies.

The four—day workshop, organised with the support of the Workforce Development Agency (WDA) and online job portal Jobs DB Singapore, aims to enhance PMETs’ pre—employment skills, equip them with job—hunting skills, provide timely job market information and link them up with prospective employers.

The CDC said Tuesday the workshop will focus on re—skilling PMETs for second careers in growth industries such as hospitality, tourism, retail and service.

The first workshop started last month and received positive feedback from participants, who were aged between 23 and 58, and came from diverse working backgrounds.

The second workshop will be held on from February 11 to 13 and February 17.

The programme will be held on a monthly basis at various venues throughout the year.

The CDC said that over the past few months, there has been an increase in the number of residents who have approached it for employment and training—related assistance.

Between November last year and January this year, 1148 jobseekers registered themselves with the CDC.

That is a 35 per cent jump from 825 jobseekers registered in the period from August to October last year.