New Initiatives To Help Employers Adopt Skills-First Practices And Build Workforce Resilience

Graced by Dr Janil Puthucheary, Senior Minister of State (SMS) for the Ministry of Education, this event marked the culmination of the six-week SkillsFuture Festival that commenced on 7 July 2025.

Themed “Transform Today, Lead Tomorrow – Strengthen Business Through People”, this year’s Conference highlighted the key role that employers play in developing and upskilling their employees. The Conference also introduced new resources to better enable employers to do so:

Launch of TalentTrack and TalentTrack+

To support employers in identifying their skills needs and taking a skills-first approach to hiring and upskilling, SkillsFuture Singapore (SSG) launched two new digital workforce planning tools in support of the Career Health SG initiative – TalentTrack and TalentTrack+. TalentTrack is a free-to-use tool developed in collaboration with the Ministry of Trade and Industry and Government Technology Agency. Located within the GoBusiness Dashboard, it enables employers to obtain insights on in-demand skills and training course recommendations curated to their industry and business focus.

TalentTrack+ is a suite of commercial human resources technology (HRTech) tools curated by SSG. Employers seeking in-depth insights on their workforce can use advanced tools by TalentTrack+ partners to take stock of and assess each employee’s existing skills, identify skills gaps and obtain personalised training recommendations for their employees. The HRTech tools under TalentTrack+ will be integrated with the Career and Skills Passport, where consenting employees can share their own government-verified skills data with their employers. For more information on TalentTrack and TalentTrack+, please refer to Annex A.

Launch of Chrysalis

Additionally, to help companies build and scale their workplace learning capabilities, the National Centre of Excellence for Workplace Learning (NACE) led by Nanyang Polytechnic and SSG launched Chrysalis, a free digital platform that consolidates and offers accessible, ready-to-use workplace learning resources such as On-the-Job (OJT) blueprints, a Learning Needs Analysis Playbook and related toolkits, and micro-learning modules. Companies, especially Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), can access these resources easily to adopt workplace learning and foster workforce agility.  The platform will be launched in two phases, with the first phase launched at today’s event. For more information on Chrysalis, please refer to Annex B.

Mr Tan Jek Min, Director, NACE led by Nanyang Polytechnic, said, “For workplace learning to thrive in Singapore, it must be easy to start, simple to scale, and customisable to business needs. Chrysalis is our way of accelerating this momentum, giving companies direct and convenient access to ready-to-use tools and resources. By lowering barriers to action, we help businesses build an agile and competitive workforce, while making workplace learning an integral part of their culture.”

Appointment of SBF as a Skills Development Partner

In line with SSG’s commitment to build a network of partners to support companies in their workforce development efforts, SSG has appointed SBF as the latest Skills Development Partner (SDP). SBF will work with the industry to identify emerging skills, co-develop training solutions, and promote skills recognition through structured skills-based career pathways. SBF will focus on skills in two strategic domains – Green Economy, and Trade, Investment and Internationalisation, which are key for companies to navigate today’s economic uncertainties and remain competitive. SBF is the newest addition to the stable of SSG-appointed SDPs, which have collectively supported more than 1,000 enterprises and 2,200 individuals in skills development through SSG-supported programmes between April 2023 and March 2025.

Mr Kok Ping Soon, Chief Executive Officer of SBF, said, “As Singapore charts its path towards a more sustainable and globally connected economy, workforce transformation must keep pace. SBF is pleased to be a Skills Development Partner, focusing on Green skills, and Trade, Investment and Internationalisation skills.  This complements SBF’s role in enabling businesses to be sustainability-centric and international through programmes such as the Cost and Carbon Reduction Programme (CCRP) and GlobalConnect.  We look forward to working with the business community to build a skills-empowered workforce to seize emerging opportunities with confidence.”

SkillsFuture Human Capital Conference

About 800 representatives from enterprises, trade associations and chambers, and industry partners attended the SkillsFuture Human Capital Conference today. At the event, SMS Janil presented nine companies with the National Workplace Learning Certification. The Certification is a testament to the awarded companies’ dedication towards advocating and fostering continual learning at the workplace. Please refer to Annex C for this year’s National Workplace Learning Certification list of recipients.

The event also featured a panel discussion with employer, trade and association chamber and union representatives. The panel highlighted various perspectives on the importance, challenges and benefits for employers to adopt skills-first practices, and the ecosystem of support that employers can tap on to get started. Please refer to Annex D for the list of panellists.

The SkillsFuture Human Capital Conference marked the end of the SkillsFuture Festival 2025. This year’s SkillsFuture Festival, which began on 7 July 2025, attracted over 300,000 participants and 1,000 enterprises across more than 125 events.

Mr Tan Kok Yam, Chief Executive of SSG said “SkillsFuture Festival 2025 has been a showcase of learners, employers, educators, industry leaders, and community partners, coming together to drive a national movement, that enables all of us in Singapore to learn, grow, and adapt over our lifetime. Over the movement’s 10 years, we see a growing coalition of SkillsFuture partners, and we are very glad to welcome SBF on board today as our latest Skills Development Partner. We also see increased emphasis and capability in skills development and workplace learning; and with the new digital tools, we look forward to more employers being deliberate in the development of their workers, so that career health and business resilience are strengthened in concert. There is so much more for the SkillsFuture movement to do amid uncertain times, and we ask for all hands on deck.”

For more information, refer to Annex A-D.