A career and education fair for full-time national
servicemen (NSFs) has, for the first time, tailored the event to
feature jobs based on the preferences from servicemen and what they
studied previously.
Called the Enhanced Career and Education Fair, the
one-day event helps match NSFs about to complete their national
service to potential employers in the public and private sector. It
is held quarterly.
The estimated 2,000 jobs at the latest fair, launched
on Tuesday (Aug 15) at the Lifelong Learning Institute, were
selected based on information provided when the NSFs registered
online prior to the event, including their career preferences and
education background.
This was done to better customise the fair to the
servicemen and will again feature in future iterations of the
event.
The fair has been organised by Workforce Singapore with
the Ministry of Defence and Ministry of Home Affairs since
2015.
Other new initiatives at the Enhanced Career and
Education Fair include providing NSFs who registered for the event
online access to career preparation resources. This includes tips
on interviews and resume writing, as well as industry insights.
Besides job matching, the fair also features an
education exhibition for NSFs who would like to further their
studies after completing national service.
National service probationary inspector Noor Hafeez Bin
Abdul Rashid, 24, who would complete his national service in three
months, said the fair's online career resources helped him to add
more information to "enhance" his resume. He has applied for a few
jobs at the job fair on Tuesday, including one as a cabin
crewmember at Singapore Airlines.
NSFs who have registered online can continue to apply
for jobs through a virtual platform that will be available until
Aug 29. An additional 6,000 curated jobs are also available on the
platform.
"(The organisers) have developed resources that can be
made available to the (NSFs) through their desktop or their mobile
devices because this is a way in which they are comfortable to
access information," said Mrs Josephine Teo, Minister in the Prime
Minister's Office and Second Minister for Manpower and Foreign
Affairs at the fair.
ST