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Oral Answer by Mrs Josephine Teo Minister of Manpower to Parliamentary Question on MyCareersFuture Portal

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NOTICE PAPER NO. 1153 OF 2018 FOR THE SITTING ON 10 JULY 2018

QUESTION NO. 1934 FOR WRITTEN ANSWER

MP: Mr Desmond Choo

To ask the Minister for Manpower (a) what is the current successful job matching rate of mycareersfuture.sg; (b) whether there are plans to introduce vernacular versions of the platform to help our older job seekers; and (c) what are the plans to increase the job listings by smaller companies.

 

NOTICE PAPER NO. 1233 OF 2018 FOR THE SITTING ON 10 JULY 2018

QUESTION NO. 2044 FOR WRITTEN ANSWER

MP: Mr Leon Perera

To ask the Minister for Manpower (a) whether an update can be provided on the job match success rate of the Jobs Bank for Singaporeans; and (b) what measures are being implemented to enable the measurement of job match success rates of the Jobs Bank and MyCareersFuture.sg for the purpose of assessing the returns on investment.

Answer

  1. Workforce Singapore (WSG) helps match jobseekers with employers through the Adapt and Grow initiative.  MyCareersFuture (MCF) is one measure among several under Adapt and Grow.  It is an online jobs marketplace that recently replaced the national Jobs Bank to help jobseekers and employers perform smarter and faster job searches.
  2. Jobs Bank has been well utilised, notwithstanding the many other options available to employers and jobseekers.  In 2017, more than 20,000 employers placed job postings on the Jobs Bank, of which a small minority were to fulfil the Fair Consideration Framework advertising requirements.  These job postings received more than 2 million applications from local jobseekers.
  3. As employers may not update the outcome of their job postings, we are not yet able to capture all job matches facilitated by Jobs Bank or MCF.  We are therefore looking at ways to better assess the effectiveness of MCF in job matching, such as inferring placement rates using administrative data.
  4. Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) accounted for more than 60% of job postings on the Jobs Bank in 2017.  We expect the proportion to be similar in MCF.
  5. The MCF platform is more useful to jobseekers by having the widest possible range of job postings.  Employers too will prefer to post job openings on a platform that is accessed by more jobseekers.  Therefore, instead of creating vernacular versions to cater to specific language users, our aim is to ensure ease-of-use of the platform for all users.  We will continue to serve users who are more comfortable communicating in vernacular languages through WSG’s Careers Connect and NTUC’s Employment and Employability Institute (NTUC’s e2i) centres.  This includes providing guidance on online job search so that they too can eventually benefit from accessing opportunities through such avenues.