CFOsg Admin
- Apr 13
- 3 min read

SGUnited Jobs Initiative

During this COVID-19 pandemic, enterprises are heavily affected by the boarder closing and the travel restriction. This has resulted in certain sectors having excess manpower and some might facing manpower shortage in short-term or long-term.

The SG United and Workforce Singapore introduces a new initiative "SG United Job Initiative". The main purpose of this initiative is to match workers to enterprise with current available jobs (created as a result of COVID-19 or those with short-term manpower needs due to the disruptions). Besides, it also aimed to help enterprises recruit for the eventual recovery.The initiative aims to create about 10,000 jobs for Singaporeans over the next one year.

Operational Overview

How companies will work with TACs

Step 1: COLLATE

TACs take crucial role in supporting affected workers and companies due to COVID-19

TACs will work with companies to identify Job Opportunities for:

Permanent Roles
Temporary Roles

And fill up the Job Order Template

Step 2: POST

Companies are advice to post vacancies on mycareerfuture.sg with the #SGUnitedJobs

#SGUnitedTraineeships Step 3: MATCH

Source for and match job-seekers among alternative industries (with SBF) or within members companies to available openings, while WSG to conduct back-end job matching on MCF concurrently.

TACs will also work with agencies such as WSG, e2i and IHLs to facilitate further matching for companies

Helping Companies with Manpower in Demand

Received information from companies with manpower in demand (including permanent roles, temporary hires and fresh graduate trainees)
Ensure companies fill in Job Orders Template
Request company to post vacancies on MCF. In addition, participate in VCF, if jobs are suitable. #SGUnitedJobs #SGUnitedTraineeship
Monitor companies' job matching status, concurrently looking out for intra-sector job matching. Work with SBF to look out for inter-sector job matching opportunities.
Companies successfully hired the Job-seekers /recruited fresh graduate trainees
SBF and Sectoral TACs to obtain the MCF Job ID from the companies and advice the companies to close the Job Posting on MCF. Report the details of the applicants and successful job-seekers weekly.

Helping Companies with Manpower in Excess

Receive information from Companies with manpower in Excess (including permanent roles and temporary hires)
Ensure companies fills in Job Order Template and inform SBF or Sectoral TACs the type of outplacement (eg, short-term or permanent)
Monitor companies' job matching status, concurrently looking out for intra-sector job matching. Work with SBF to look out for inter-sector job matching opportunities
Companies successfully hired the Job-seekers/ recruited fresh graduate trainees

How does Workforce Singapore (WSG) support from back-end

Provide advisory on relevant manpower hiring schemes
Facilitate job posting on SGUnited, MyCareerFuture.sg(MCF) and Virtual Career Fair (VCF)
Email blast to job-seekers database
Circulate JD info to Careers Connect at Woodlands, Tampines and Paya Lebar
Circulate JD info at Careers Connect On the Go (CCOTG) platforms

Step 4: Appointment of TACs as SGUnited Jobs Partners

For TACs that seek to do more for their member companies:

To provide quick resolutions to their manpower needs
To assist in job matching between companies on a personalized level
Expecting a huge immediate demand for such services from their members but have limited Secretariat capacity to handle such work currently

To notify ESG and SBF of their interest for HR manager deployment:

Work with SBF to roster deployment of HR managers (on contract) to respective TACs
TACs to advise on expected volume of work (eg. requests from companies)
Standard baseline processes will be advised so that HR managers can get started quickly
TACs can provide feedback and add on to JD of the HR manager if required
SBF will handle recruitment of HR managers and backend admin processes, eg. KPI reporting and progress update

What can companies with manpower in demand do now?

Accelerate hiring plans for:

• Permanent Roles • Temporary Hires (including second job arrangement)

- Post vacancies on MyCareerFuture.sg (MCF)

- Participate in SGUnited Virtual Career Fair (VCF)

- Submit Job Order Form to TACs for Job Matching

2. Traineeships:

• Provide fresh graduates with traineeships opportunities

- Post Traineeship Vacancies on MyCareerFuture.sg (MCF)

- Participate in SGUnited Virtual Career Fair (VCF)

- Submit Interest to Singapore Business Federation (SBF)

3. Adapt & Grow

• Professional Conversion Programmes

• Rank-and-File, Place-and-Train Programmes

• P-Max Programmes

• Career Trail

• Career Support Programme

• Career Matching Services

What can companies with manpower in excess do now?

Round up numbers and job roles of impacted workforce:

• Permanent roles

• Temporary Hires (including second job arrangement)