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- Better Life Through Employment & Employability Assistance
 employment  un-employment under employment
From 2005 to July 2008, 43, 484 workers have been assisted through JRP.
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Year 2005 |
Year 2006 |
Year 2007 |
Year 2008 |
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4,652 |
12,027 |
15,044 |
20,000 |
Key strategies and new tools
- Industry redevelopment
- Working with partners to bring industry wide adoption of business & manpower practices in key sectors (e.g. Security, landscape, environment and conservancy)
- Objective is to impact more workers
- Practices include best sourcing and customer centric initiatives (CCI) and other job re-creation initiatives
- Job re-creation
- Redesign and re-create jobs to increase the skills content and job worth
- Prepare the workplace to receive workers.
- Placement & upgrading
- Prepare workers to take on (re-created) jobs via skills upgrading and reskilling.
- Help workers get their current competencies nationally certified and recognized to enhance their employability.
- New initiatives
- Continue to toll out innovative programmes such as Employability Camp Plus (EC plus) to enable workers with bigger employability gaps to better secure employment
JRP focuses on the following:
- Increase Skills Content of Jobs
- Increase Skills Level of Workers
- Redesign Jobs, Redefine Industry Practices
- Professionalize the Industry, etc
72% received assistance to be prepared for, and placed in re-created jobs. 28%progressed to earn higher pay as they were upgraded, and became more competent to take on bigger job roles. |
