More mid-career workers switching to social service sector

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More mid-career workers are switching to join the social service industry, with the National Council of Social Service (NCSS) seeing a 19 per cent increase in such switches from 2016 to 2022. One of them is Mr Prem Muniandy, 37, who graduated with a Diploma in Optometry in...

He signed up for Workforce Singapore’s Career Conversion Programme for Social Workers – a work-study programme that trains mid-career individuals to become qualified social workers.There was a 14.5 per cent increase in mid-career individuals who signed up for the career conversion course to become a social worker between 2020 and 2022, compared with the pre-Covid-19 years from 2017 to 2019, said WSG.

He undertook a two-year degree course in social work as part of the programme, and is now a full-time social worker at the Singapore Indian Development Association . She looked into switching careers over the years, but could never find the time to pursue the relevant studies to do so. Ms Kang, who has been volunteering with the Lions Club Singapore since 2005, had no qualms about the job change as she knew that social work is similar to what she is already doing as a volunteer.

 

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