Traditional workforce research focuses on workers and their skills. However, when we examine issues such as productivity and how skills impact the workplace, it is also important to look at what skills jobs demand. Job skills and worker skills are very different concepts. The former is a demand concept while the latter concerns the supply of skills.

This Research Report on the Skills Utilisation (SU) in Singapore project focuses on skills utilisation in jobs located in Singapore, how skills are distributed across industries and occupations, and how skills utilisation may be explained by other factors. The benefits of creating skills utilisation data will help inform the appropriateness of the Continuing Education and Training (CET) supply strategy, the relevance of Workforce Skills Qualifications (WSQ), especially the Employability Skills (ES) framework, and knowledge on the extent of skill mismatches in Singapore.