Deputy Prime Minister visited our office! – DPM visit

We are happy to share with them our progress on the Company Training Committee (CTC) partnership with CMPU – Creative Media and Publishing Union and NTUC Singapore through this DPM visit. Being a young company with a young workforce, we have grown over the past 4 years, with the completion of the Operation Technology Roadmap (OTR) that developed a work plan to transform the business and workforce formed in May 2021. The Union and NTUC’s Employment & Employability Institute, e2i, indeed have helped a young, start-up company like us to grow and scale our business to greater numbers. This OTR has also improved and strengthened our HR capabilities to send more staff for development/skills courses.

Cited from DPM’s Heng Swee Keat Facebook post:

NTUC has helped support workers with the use of OTR in achieving better work prospects through company training workshops on the pressure of the Covid-19 pandemic.

NTUC has helped form over 900 CTCs including Vicinity Studio over the years. From the recent Budget 2022 speech, they aimed to reach 2,500 CTCs by 2025 – building a future-ready workforce with good jobs and wages with enhanced productivity and innovations. Having tripartite partners – the Unions, the Government, and the employers, each played a critical role to help the company grow.

(Group Photo by MCI, Lim Sin Thai)

Cited from Secretary-General Mr. Ng Chee Meng’s Facebook post:

“Recently at May Day Rally, I shared about the $70 million NTUC CTC Grant to scale our transformation efforts. What this means for businesses is enhanced productivity and innovation, and the ability to attract and retain talent more effectively. In turn, our workers can have better work prospects and better wages.”

This was part of their plan to grow and transform Singapore’s economy in the future by encouraging more companies to leverage the available resources and setting up their CTCs with NTUC and unions for both multinational corporations and small-medium enterprises (SMEs) in Singapore.

(Company’s introduction talk with the Ministers led by Kevin)

The half-day visit started with an informative and hands-on tour around the office with camera/lighting equipment and a presentation on the company’s growth/roadmaps for near-future plans and goals.

(The image stabilizing gimbal handling led by Lesley)

(Lighting adjustment, color, and intensity through Ipad led by Yi Xiang)

(Audio Setup led by Diyana)

The session was then summed up by a sharing dialogue session with a few of our own staff who had undergone NTUC training programs to upskill themselves for better progression. Amirah, a video editing supervisor that attended the Storytelling Course funded by the NTUC Education and Training Collaborative Funs (NCF), and Yi Xiang who made a career switch from Meetings, Incentives, Conferences & Exhibitions (MICE) industry and became a full-time Gaffer/Grip through the SGUnited Mid-Career Traineeship.

We are glad to lead this event and have been part of this journey for the past 1 year. We look forward to collaborating through more training with the support of the Union and creating more inspiring content in the upcoming years.

References:

Heng Swee Keat Facebook (2022, May 5) https://www.facebook.com/hengsweekeat/posts/555552909263781

Ng Chee Meng Facebook (2022, May 6) https://www.facebook.com/NgCheeMengforSG/posts/553246422828200

Chee Hong Tat Facebook (2022, May 6) https://www.facebook.com/hongtat.chee/posts/549822559841848 

Photographs by Ministry of Communications and Information (MCI), Lim Sin Thai