Career Conversion Programmes (CCPs) are conversion programmes targeted at mid-career individuals, to undergo skills conversion and move into new occupations or sectors that have good prospects and opportunities for progression.
Benefits of Career Conversion Programmes (CCPs)
Mid-career individuals can undergo industry-related training with up to 90% salary and course fee support. WSG offers close to 100 CCPs across around 30 sectors to help mid-career individuals reskill and take on new job roles.
There are 3 modes of CCPs:
1. Place-and-Train: Mid-career individual is hired by a participating employer before undergoing training to take on a new job role.
2. Attach-and-Train: Mid-career individual is provided with training and work attachments, prior to job placement, through industry partners in growth sectors with good future job opportunities
3. Redeployment / Job Redesign (JR) Reskilling: Targeted at companies that are undergoing business transformation, and where their existing workers are at risk of redundancy or in vulnerable jobs due to the transformation. These workers will be provided with training to take on new job roles or redesigned job roles within the same company.
For more information on CCPs, download the Factsheet and FAQs.
Eligibility Criteria
Eligible Mid-career Individuals:
Singapore Citizen or Permanent Resident
Minimum 21 years old
Graduated or completed National Service, for at least 2 years
New job role trained for under the CCP should be substantially different from previous job role(s)*, hence requiring reskilling for career conversion
Able to commit to full-time employment or attachment in a participating company
* CCPs are geared towards helping mid-career individuals acquire skills to change careers. Hence, there is a requirement for career conversion when mid-career individuals undergo a CCP. However, individuals who have a continuous employment gap of at least 2 years prior to CCP commencement will be allowed to apply for CCP job roles similar to their previous jobs.
Beyond the general eligibility criteria, there may be other course-specific entry criteria and employer-specific shortlisting process may apply for different CCPs. In general, individuals applying for CCPs should also not be shareholders, immediate ex-employees of company or related entities, or be related to shareholders of the hiring company. Please refer to the FAQs for more details on these exclusions.
Jobs Growth Incentive and CCPs
The Jobs Growth Incentive (“JGI”) was introduced in Aug 2020 to support companies to hire more Singaporeans.
More information on the JGI can be found at go.gov.sg/JGI.
The JGI also applied to newly hired CCP trainees undergoing reskilling. Funding adjustments will continue to apply for all new CCP trainees hired from 1 Sep 2020 to 31 Mar 2023 to encourage employers that are participating in CCPs to retain their new local hires as far as possible.
For newly hired individuals on Place-and-Train CCPs from 1 Sep 2020 to 31 Mar 2023, Salary Support will be disbursed to participating employers over a longer period, comprising the CCP training duration and an additional period of retention equivalent to the training duration.
The temporary adjustments to CCP Salary Support disbursements will not affect the following groups of CCP participants.
Local workers who were hired on Place-and-Train CCPs before Sep 2020 or after Mar 2023, which is outside of the qualifying period for JGI
Participants under Redeployment and JR Reskilling CCPs who are existing employees
Attach-and-Train (“AnT”) CCP participants who do not have an employer-employee relationship with the host organisations
How to apply for CCPs?
To apply for CCPs, you can visit the CCP Portal to explore the various CCPs available and submit an application there.
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