Overview
MAS’ approach to the jobs and skills agenda is to create good jobs, grow the talent pipeline, and support the workforce in training and development so as to build a strong Singaporean core that will anchor and sustain our competitiveness as a financial centre.
Through the Growing Timber series, MAS, together with the Institute of Banking and Finance (IBF), will share key trends and developments in the financial sector workforce, and engender conversations and partnerships on developing our local workforce even as we remain open to complementary expertise and skills from abroad.
We want to:
- share information on opportunities relating to jobs and skills;
- hear from the industry’s workers the challenges they face in their professional development;
- showcase success stories of upskilling and reskilling;
- learn good human capital practices from experts and from one another; so that …
… together, we can transform Singapore’s financial sector workforce to be among the best globally.
Recent Event
Career Fair: More Pathways for Young Talent in the Financial Sector
At the first Growing Timber event of 2023, Mr Alvin Tan, Minister of State, Ministry of Trade and Industry and Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth, and Board Member of MAS, announced the launch of the Polytechnic Talent for Finance Scheme (PTFS)
24 Apr 2023
“Growing timber is a long-term commitment. So is the jobs and skills effort - creating job opportunities, fostering job readiness, and supporting job retention. The efforts take time to bear fruit. But with persistence and an enterprising spirit, we will create a lush forest: a world-class financial sector workforce ready for the future.”
Mr Ravi Menon, Managing Director, MAS, and Chairman, IBF at “Growing Timber” MAS-IBF Webinar Series on 26 November 2020