Proportion of job vacancies for PMETs rose further in 2023, with tech workers in demand: MOM

SINGAPORE: The proportion of job vacancies for mavens, managers, executives and technicians (PMET) increased further final year to 57.2 per cent, up from 56 per cent in 2022.

In 2013, the figure stood at 39.2 per cent.

“The precise enlarge in PMET fragment of job vacancies over the last decade turned into once a results of the better quiz of for professional workers,” the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) talked about on Monday (Mar 25) because it released its latest job vacancies file.

The increased quiz of came from sectors such as records and communications, financial and insurance protection companies, legitimate companies, moreover smartly being and social companies.

As of December final year, there were 174 job vacancies for every 100 jobseekers. The gathering of vacancies also rose to Seventy nine,800 after six consecutive quarters of decline from the anecdote high in March 2022.

JOBS IN DEMAND

Instrument, web and multimedia developers ranked on the tip of all PMET vacancies in 2023.

Mr Ang Boon Heng, director of the Manpower Be taught and Statistics Division, talked about there are quiet many vacancies in the tech sector despite news of retrenchments.

“Going forward, I judge with the hasty advancement of the AI and digitalisation traits, these tech-centered jobs will live in solid quiz of,” he talked about.

There were also more job openings for industry pattern and gross sales mavens as firms sought to enlarge and enhance the effectivity of their processes, the ministry added.

Request for registered nurses and enrolled nurses remained solid as smartly, with the continuing enlargement of the healthcare sector.

Employers were interesting to pay more to occupy these in-quiz of positions, when in comparison with the year earlier than, MOM talked about.

The variety of wages for software, web and multimedia developers rose, initiating at S$5,000 final year, in comparison with S$4,200 the year earlier than.

For non-PMET jobs, waiters, shop gross sales assistants and heavy truck and lorry drivers are amongst the roles with the most effective vacancies.

Nonetheless it turned into once also more sophisticated to occupy waiter jobs, alongside with vacancies for cleaners, receptionists, customer support and records clerks, healthcare assistants and bus drivers.

Reasons offered consist of unattractive pay and bodily strenuous responsibilities.

Total, the proportion of job vacancies that went unfilled for six months or more fell.

MOM talked about there turned into once success in the efforts to alleviate the manpower crunch for non-PMET jobs through rep admission to to foreign manpower, technology adoption, job redesign, skills upgrading and efforts to steal wages throughout the Revolutionary Wage Model.

For PMETs, it turned into but again uncomplicated to occupy vacancies such as management executives, operations learn analysts and administration managers.