17th December 2022
SkillsFuture Singapore released a report, The Skills Demand For The Future Economy report, which stated that mid-career workers in Singapore mostly hold the five kinds of jobs that are experiencing disruption, namely, operations and administration, sales, marketing and customer service, human resource, finance and accounting, and engineering and technology.
It is important for workers to think about upskilling or reskilling to stay versatile or take on new opportunities. Upskilling refers to learning additional skills to move into other roles within the same family of jobs, while reskilling is learning new skills to move into a role in a different job family.
The report also details several ways for mid-career workers to upgrade their skills to move into roles that are becoming more popular. For example, mid-career workers in sales, marketing and customer service already have skills that can be applied in similar but more popular roles.
Fresh graduates are more open or exposed to technological developments, including video-conferencing apps such as Zoom, to manage hybrid or flexible work, so this can also give them an advantage in the workplace.