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The signed MOU aims to benefit more than 1,500 youths annually.
Singapore's National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) will be partnering with the Institute of Technical Education (ITE) to provide sector-specific career mentorships, pre-employment workshops and work opportunities for youth, through a signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).
The MoU was signed at Young NTUC’s annual signature symposium, LIT DISCOvery 2023 on Friday (14 July 2023), which also saw the launch of the NTUC Starter Membership for youths between 18 and 25 years old. This follows the conclusion of the NTUC Youth Taskforce’s (YTF) engagements, involving 10,568 youths and Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) Lawrence Wong in attendance as the Guest-of-Honour.
The MoU signing ceremony was held ahead of the closure of the Youth Taskforce at LIT DISCOvery 2023. YTF had earlier released its key findings and recommendations in its The New Gen Worker Report 2023, which detailed recommendations on:
- providing youths with greater accessibility to mentorship;
- providing short-term work trials with workplace mentorship for freshly graduated youths;
- more training of mental well-being peer supporters in the workplace;
- offering a new NTUC Starter Membership, and
- advocating for employers to provide higher quality internship experiences.
Speaking at the event, NTUC Secretary-General (SG) Ng Chee Meng (pictured below) shared how the MoU signing with ITE would benefit more than 1,500 youths annually through career and employment opportunities. He said: “This experience hopefully will build towards a larger space beyond our Career Starter Lab. We have more students and youths coming into this programme, partnering educators and the companies that we are reaching out to.
"And very importantly, the pre-employment workshops will really be quite fun.”
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