Skillsfuture

With the COVID-19 situation not getting better any time soon, companies are now mandating that employees forgo coming to the office and instead work from home. It is a strange feeling for some despite being in a familiar location since they would have been accustomed to the office setting. Of course, this type of work style is something that creatives have experience with, some even do it on a full-time basis. But alas, this coronavirus is simply not helping with securing gigs during this current climate. That means fewer jobs, a big problem for freelancers. If COVID-19 is hindering your…

While most of her peers continued on to university after graduating from polytechnic, Chua Xin Yi made a bold move – she decided to enrol in the SkillsFuture Earn and Learn Programme instead. Having obtained a Diploma in Food Science and Technology, her reason for choosing to pursue the unconventional route was simple: she wanted to be certain that the industry was right for her. “I was very sure that I wanted to reaffirm my interests. I didn’t want to dive straight into it and regret (doing so) later on,” she explained. The programme is a work-learn programme that allows…