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A Collaboration to Transform the CET sector
Work and Professional Development Opportunities Ahead
A more complex world needs multi-disciplinary professionals to build a future proof CET sector
The development of TAEPCM is only a starting point.
A Collaboration to Transform the CET sector
Imminent Changes are Taking Place
Political Forces Economic Forces Social Forces Technological Forces
A Collaboration to Transform the CET sector
Political Forces: Singapore at her Turning Point
“Re-balancing the social impact and roles to be played by the individuals, the community and the Government”
Do more to give every citizen a fair share in nation’s success - Raise incomes and wealth of the low-income Singaporean
Do more to keep paths upwards open to all- To keep our society MOBILE
Increase social safety
nets
CET now needs to play a bigger role in supporting the strategic thrusts
A Collaboration to Transform the CET sector
Political Forces: A More Inclusive Society with Pursuit of Excellence
Demand for Quality Job & Social Mobility
Continue to have a strong emphasis in work and rewarding individuals who work
Jobs and more specifically GOOD JOBS will be important to support the strategic thrusts and to meeting the needs of Singaporeans where multiple pathways for career and training progress are created
A Collaboration to Transform the CET sector
Political Forces: A More Inclusive Society with Pursuit of Excellence
Demand for Quality Job & Social Mobility
Demand for Compassionate
Meritocracy
Demand for Productivity Drive
Meritocracy will gain importance and cultivated. People who succeed under the system, must feel the duty to contribute to the society
Singaporean will remain as core even with increase in population growth. The need to restructure our economy to reduce reliance on labour and enhancing productivity
A Collaboration to Transform the CET sector
Political Forces: A More Inclusive Society with Pursuit of Excellence
Demand for Quality Job & Social Mobility
Demand for Compassionate
Meritocracy
Demand for Productivity Drive
Demand for Individual Funding
Education and training as merit good which provide positive externalities and social benefits will likely to continue
Increasing need to provide individual-based funding to support special attention segments of workforce
To enhance individuals’ employability by supporting Lifelong Learning
A Collaboration to Transform the CET sector
Political Forces: A More Inclusive Society with Pursuit of Excellence
Demand for Quality Job & Social Mobility
Demand for Compassionate
Meritocracy
Tripartism remains as cornerstone to manage industrial relationship
Demand for Productivity Drive
Demand for Individual Funding
Tripartism is our competitive advantage and will remain as key cornerstone to manage industrial relations
A Collaboration to Transform the CET sector
Economic Forces: Demand for Complex Skills and Short Lead Time to Build Competitive Advantage Rapidly
Demand for complex skills
Knowledge economy – demand for creation of innovative goods and services
Demand production of high value goods and services
Demand more rapid pace of adjustments to
respond
Demand higher level of business sophistication inall sectors
Market becomes volatile and shortening of business cycles
Skills strategies become critical part of business strategies
Economic Forces: Demand for Complex Skills and Short Lead Time to Build Competitive Advantage Rapidly
The need for more firms to enter global market
Products & Services Innovation is key
Increasing demand for inclusive value chain for lead-firms to bring up the productivity & innovation
of SMEs in the value chain
A Collaboration to Transform the CET sector
A Collaboration to Transform the CET sector
Social Forces: Effects of Globalisation are Increasing Prominent in Driving the Social Changes in Singapore
Income Disparity ! Year 2000 2005 2011
Lowest 10% $315 $297 $422
Highest 10% $5,801 $7,004 $10,543
Ratio of Top 10% over Lowest 10% 18.4 23.6 25.0
Average Monthly Household Income from Work Per Household Member (including CPF)
Gini coefficient increased from 43.4 in 2000 to 45.2 in 2011
Pursuit to be “global city” and to keep cost affordable – the need for flexible labour market (develop local core while continue to attract foreign talent)
Challenging for good governance to develop and implement coherence policies for all workforce segments
A Collaboration to Transform the CET sector
Social Forces: Effects of Globalisation are Increasing Prominent in Driving the Social Changes in Singapore
Source: MTI, “The Elderly in Singapore, 2011”
Building a culture of lifelong learning becomes essential to improve employability and help Singaporeans secure better jobs
Organisations have to create more diversity and flexibility in their provision of career paths and to take advantage of the wealth of experience that an aging workforce can offer
Aging Population & Low Fertility Rate 65 yrs
Aged 65 population will increase from the current 9.3% to 19% by 2030.
Aged 50 workforce increased increase from the 20% in 2002 to 31% in 2012.
Individuals will stay in the workforce longer with multiple careers, include non-wage career
A Collaboration to Transform the CET sector
Social Forces: Effects of Globalisation are Increasing Prominent in Driving the Social Changes in Singapore
Amplification of Freelancers
Changing nature of work – new skills set for the contingent workforce to mitigate employment & income risk
Adecco predicts that rate of growth in contingent work will be 2 to 4 times the growth rate of traditional workforce and will eventually make up of 25% of the global workforce
Sources: The rise of the New Contract Worker,
Harvard Business Review, 7 September 2012
The Singapore Workforce, 2012, Ministry of Manpower
9.5% on contract
basis
10% on part-time
basis
In Singapore
A Collaboration to Transform the CET sector
Social Forces: Effects of Globalisation are Increasing Prominent in Driving the Social Changes in Singapore
Sustainable Job Growth for More Educated Workforce?
Graduates us facing joblessness or the prospect of having to take on low-skilled jobs
Degree holders forming residing labour force increased from 19% in 2002 to 29% in 2012
Hollowing out of middle-skilled jobs
Source: MTI, 2011
Change in Employment Share in Singapore (1999 - 2009)
Series1-10%0%
10%20%30%40%50%60%
Low-skilled Middle-skilled High-skilled
A Collaboration to Transform the CET sector
Technological Forces: New Challenges & Opportunities
Rise of smart
machines
Need to build specialisation to differentiate from others (to achieve mastery) to stay employable
Re-define workplace and learning
Work are more sophisticated and may require multi-disciplinary skills to add-value
Prevalence of New Media
Emergence of Cloud
Computing
Lines between work, private lives and
learning are getting blurred
Computing power to computing infrastructure, applications and
collaborative services can be delivered to end users whenever
and wherever one needs it
More technology savvy generations
Mitigation of physical space shortages, promote higher flexibility in work arrangement and bring talents together by transcending geographical constraints
A Collaboration to Transform the CET sector
What Does It Mean?
What Does It Mean?
These forces do converge, reinforce and interact with one another
A Collaboration to Transform the CET sector
What Does it Mean to Workforce Development Professional?
WFD personnel to be equipped with knowledge and skills in labour relations , labour economics, outcome evaluation,
human resource principles, procedures & etc to design sound policy initiatives
To promote essential skills including new
media skills to enhance their employability and
mobility
To promote “e”/ mobile/ blended
learning & workplace learning
To examine the eco-system by identifying the levers of
change to transform the low skills equilibrium sectors
Strengthen career guidance and consulting
framework
More efficient use of funds at specific
workforce segments need to be studied
more carefully
Review and explore how best to promote, recognise
and validate non- formal workplace learning for skills
acquisitions
To review the current TAE ecosystem to better
support both TAE professionals and their
employers
Strengthen the support of in-house training to protect
proprietary expertise
A Collaboration to Transform the CET sector
What Does It Mean to Workforce Development Professional?
Speed is essence in picking up new complex skills to meet fast changing skills demand. Our policy and mechanism must be able to:
Support and expedite the roll out of
programmes, balancing the need to safeguard quality to keep pace
with the change
Further enhance the WSQ developmental and review approach
and process to be more responsive
Allow more flexible programme design and qualifications packaging to meet interdisciplinary
skills requirements of future work
A Collaboration to Transform the CET sector
What Does It Mean to Training Management Professional?
Able to tap on existing new media and cloud infrastructure/ resources: Learning Management System Learning Analytics
Ability to develop new business model for “e”, “mobile”, “blended” and alternative learning
Able to develop and expand capability in one-stop consultation services
TM needs to re-strategise on their business development approach to better outreach to new potential direct individual buyers
To have capability to provide relevant programmes to equip the local workforce to have the capacity to compete at the international levels
A Collaboration to Transform the CET sector
What Does It Mean to HRD Professional?
Able to re-look into the design and cultivation of workplace culture, set-up and environment to facilitate and support workplace collaboration and learning and to complement classroom training
They should also be able to lead or contribute quickly to the:
process re-engineering and job-redesign activities as the organisations respond to economic forces and to support business performance and productivity
Skills utilisation at workplace
Longer term manpower/skills planning
Total business-learning solution
A Collaboration to Transform the CET sector
What Does It Mean to Adult Educator?
Master new media skills to build own personal branding and find collaborators in projects, participate in professional bodies and networks
Be a true expert in his / her fields and be able to offer more than what the new media could offer
Possess pedagogical approaches/ skills to customise courses according to learning
needs of different workforce segments Develop “e”, “mobile” and “blended learning”
A Collaboration to Transform the CET sector
What Does It Mean to Adult Educator?
Domain expertise will become crucial and likely more subject matter experts (SME) will play the role of AE. It is important for them to be effective AE and to assist them better in their transition to take on the new or additional role.
Should help build their own professional bodies or internal networks, transforming them to be a place where true expertise could be horned and shared, and aiding one another in their professional development (compassionate meritocracy)
Singapore Association of Pharmaceutical Industries
A Collaboration to Transform the CET sector
Phase 3: Execute Demonstration Projects
Phase 2: Validation & Establish Agreements
Phase 1: Strategic Intelligence
TAE Skills Strategies [TAES2]
Desktop Research
Validation of the findings from phase one via skills survey, leading to agreed
priorities to be addressed, and concrete intervention
strategies to be developed
Systematic investigations of the sector with a core focus on the skills management in
TAE community, with linkages to other factors
within CET sector
Between middle of 2014 to 2018, a series of
“Demonstration Projects” under the “Learning and
Performance Transformation” (LPT) umbrella will take place
Monitor and Measure the Planned Impact Outcomes
Part one report will be released in Nov 2013 by TAE MSTC
A Collaboration to Transform the CET sector
Achieving Outcomes at Three Levels
Right skills to respond to the needs of the labour market
Stimulate the growth of high-skilled and high value-added jobs
Government Level
Ensure full utilisation of existing skills
Future proofing firm’s performance
Firm Level
Skill-build towards the future to improve the employability of the CET professionals
Individual Level