Preparing for unpredictability

SINGAPORE (Dec 11): It has been an interesting year for jobs and employment in Singapore. On the one hand, jobs have been harder to come by, and more people are clinging on to their positions at work because of a lack of options.

Yet, for the first time since 2012, job vacancies outnumbered job seekers, suggesting some kind of mismatch.

For the most part, the difficulty in finding new jobs has been attributed to a slowing economy.

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