Is your business in the retail industry? Get a grant to hire and train professionals, managers and executives without retail experience.

For who?

• Singapore-based businesses in the retail sector who wish to hire and train professionals, managers and executives (PMEs) without retail experience.
  
  
• PMEs under this programme must:
  
  
  • be Singapore Citizens or Permanent Residents
  • have a diploma or above
  • be unemployed or facing possible enemployment/retrenchment
  • be physically fit
  • not be working in the retail sector

For what?

• To encourage retail businesses to hire PMEs without industry experience by subsidising the costs of training inexperienced PMEs.
  
  
• From the jobseeker’s perspective, this grant helps displaced PMEs to pursue retail careers and pick up the skills required to join the retail industry.

How does it work?

• You sign up for the programme as a “participating business”. When you hire PMEs without retail experience, they will go through 7 months of classroom training and traineeship.
  
  
• The classroom training is conducted by the Singapore Institute of Retail Studies (SIRS). Trainees graduate with a WSQ Diploma in Retail Studies.
  
  
• The traineeship is structured practical training designed and developed by your business to complement the classroom training and help the PME adapt to his/her new working environment. Your practical training programme must be approved by WDA.
  
  
• You can recruit PMEs on your own. WDA also organises recruitment drives and will send potential hires to you.

How much?