Unemployment in Singapore fell for the fourth month in a row in February, dropping to 3 per cent in the latest indication the city-state's economy is picking up after record losses last year.
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SINGAPORE: About four in 10 job vacancies in 2020 were related to work that could be done remotely and these were mainly PMET jobs, said a Ministry of Manpower report released on Friday (Apr 9).
This is the first time the figure is being tracked in the annual Job Vacancies Report, which analyses the type of job openings in Singapore and the jobs that are in demand.
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SINGAPORE: The rising demand for IT and healthcare professionals in recent years became more acute in 2020 as the pandemic accelerated digital transformation and hiked demand for healthcare, according to findings from a Ministry of Manpower (MOM) report released on Friday (Apr 9).
These jobs remained hard to fill mainly due to a mismatch in skills and job experience, said the Jobs Vacancies Report 2020.
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Last year, 27 per cent of job vacancies were unfilled for six months or more, down slightly from the previous year. The report found that non-PMET vacancies were harder to fill than PMET (professionals, managers, executives and technicians) vacancies, but the challenges faced by employers whe
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Singapore s unemployment rates dropped for the fourth consecutive month in February, as the economy continued to slowly recover from the Covid-19 pandemic.
Unemployment rates peaked in September last year and persisted through October, before falling steadily since November.
Singapore s hiring situation has continued to improve, with declines seen across the overall, resident and citizen unemployment rates, said Manpower Minister Josephine Teo yesterday.
A report by the Ministry of Manpower revealed that the overall unemployment rate fell to 3 per cent in February, down from 3.2 per cent in January.
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