JobTech is turning heads and making headlines.
More than 312,000 National University of Singapore (NUS) alumni will have access to NUS career+, a mobile application that leverages on big data and artificial intelligence to help individuals advance their careers. Jointly developed by NUS and tech startup JobTech, NUS career+ aims to guide users in three areas of career advancement: goal-setting, job recommendations, and suggestions for relevant courses to close skill gaps.
There are 6,700 available positions in 2018 compared to 4,520 in 2017. The number of PMET jobs for software, web and media developer positions nearly doubled to 6,700 in 2018 from 4,520 in the previous year although data suggests that jobs are getting increasingly harder to fill as demand for digital talent spreads beyond the IT sector, according to a report from HRtech startup JobTech.
Banks are focusing their digitalisation efforts in the Lion City. Banks in Singapore are seeking out more technology professionals as it faces off against Hong Kong to be Asia’s most important financial hub, with 20% of job postings calling for digitally-driven employees, according to JobTech Online’s Jobs Census.
SINGAPORE banks are hiring a larger proportion of technology specialists than their Hong Kong counterparts in 2018. Some 20 per cent of Singapore bank job postings are technology-related, compared to 5 per cent for Hong Kong lenders, according to a census by labour market intelligence startup JobTech.
The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) has identified the jobs most demanded by companies in 11 major industries. To provide a glimpse into the specific requirements of these roles, JobTech has extracted the most common skills among these roles from actual job posts in these sectors as well as the number of relevant courses.
MyCareersFuture has also collaborated with local tech start-ups like JobTech to identify more advanced skills-matching technology for individuals. The collaboration has also allowed the analysis of job mismatches and missed matches in key growth sectors such as banking and finance, and infocommunications and technology, said WSG.
Jointly developed by the NUS Department of Computer Science and JobTech, a local start-up that provides job matching services using artificial intelligence, the app informs students about possible jobs for the degrees they are pursuing.
After a student has indicated his preferred career domain, the app extracts and analyses the student’s academic record, before generating a personalised skills profile.
JobTech platform uses AI to build a “dynamic skills map” from more than 150 million online job listings, that automatically clusters skills to show where and how well they connect, and the combination of skills necessary for a job.
JobTech Pte Ltd (JobTech), Asia’s leading Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Big Data Analytics Company, today announced the launch of its JobTech Employer platform, at a joint event with AI Singapore, held at the National University of Singapore. AI Singapore is a national program, set up to enhance Singapore’s AI capabilities to power Singapore’s future digital economy.
Asia’s leading Artificial Intelligence and big data start-up JobTech challenges Google to a head-to-head race to see who can match job seekers with their dream jobs more accurately — and Google VP Vint Cerf has responded they will consider the challenge.
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