• The industry and training institutions could organise life and career planning activities for secondary school students, such as industry talks sharing the industry trend and opportunities, enterprise talks showcasing the success of local manufacturing enterprises, dialogues with alumni to learn about the career path and prospect, and industrial visits to high-tech smart factories for industry exposure.
• The industry could also offer enterprise talks or industrial visits to career counsellors and teachers at secondary schools to imbue a mindset of career planning in the manufacturing industry.
• Career counsellors and teachers are encouraged to study the Certificate of Vocational and Professional Education and Training (QF Level 4) offered by the VTC to learn about career planning through the vocational and professional education and training pathway.

Employers are encouraged to utilise government resources actively on talent development, such as the following government funding schemes related to engineering training:

• the Engineering Graduate Training Scheme,
• the Reindustrialisation and Technology Training Programme, and
• the Pilot Incentive Scheme to Employers providing workplace learning and assessment under the VTC Earn & Learn Scheme廿

• Employees are strongly encouraged to upskill and reskill themselves in order to keep up with the industry trend and widen their career path, by making good use of government resources such as the Vplus Engineering subsidy scheme, which subsidises practitioners studying designated professional part-time programmes accredited at QF Level 3 to 5.

Training institutions are recommended to prepare talents with relevant experience and qualifications as follows:

• Offer bite-sized learning programmes in these suggested training areas:
  • Hard skills: human-machine interaction, robotic process automation, artificial intelligence, industrial internet of things, data analysis, cybersecurity, cloud computing, 3D printing, etc.
  • Soft skills: problem solving skills, lean management, product design and development, risk management, supply chain management, project management, interpersonal skills, etc.
• Provide internship or workplace attachment for students in degree programmes to strengthen students’ ability of technology application in enterprise settings.
• Encourage students to enrol in VTC Earn & Learn Scheme and Apprenticeship Training Scheme, which integrates structured classroom learning with on-the-job training.