The Singapore Employability Skills System (ESS) comprises of a set of generic employability skills to raise a worker’s effectiveness and improve his work abilities.

These foundational skills, portable across all industries, enable workers of all levels to better adapt to new job demands, work challenges and changing work environments. As such, these skills complement other specific industry and occupational skills which are specialized or technical by nature

The WSQ is designed to facilitate adult learning, make skills upgrading more accessible to our workforce and provide career progression pathways for them.It aims to equip our workforce with the necessary employability, industry and occupational skills to remain competitive and add value to the organization.

The employability skills and their corresponding competency standards have been arranged in three series of training modules – The Workplace Literacy Series, The Workplace Numeracy Series and The Workplace Skills Series.

The Workplace Skills Series includes:
Communication & Relationship Skills
Problem Solving & Decision Making Skills