S2E29: Will AI steal your lunch? What Singapore workers need to know

Nov 2, 2025

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Find out how to choose the right employers, training and career paths to ride the wave.

Synopsis: Every first and third Monday of the month, get a headstart in your personal finance and career with The Straits Times.

We are in the thick of it. Artificial intelligence (AI) has already taken root in our personal and professional lives, and is set to reshape society even more.

How best to set ourselves up for success for the years to come? What is the support at hand to help us make better career choices?

In this episode, host and ST correspondent Tay Hong Yi chats with Mr Dinesh Vasu Dash, Minister of State for Manpower, as well as for Culture, Community and Youth.

MOS Dinesh shares more about who the hotly-scrutinised and recently launched Graduate Industry Traineeships (Grit) are meant for, and why it has taken the form it has.

Joining the discussion is Ms Elsie Ng, director for talent solutions in Singapore for professional networking platform LinkedIn. She shares how both employers and workers are reinventing themselves for AI.

This is a jam-packed episode that cannot be missed.

Highlights (click/tap above):

5:43 What prevents people from taking the first step in upskilling?

9:17 How have skill requirements changed in recent times?

13:40 Huge demand in 'people' skills; why career research is important

17:36 What happens to those who find their efforts aren’t enough to keep up?

24:47 Grit is meant for those who can’t directly enter growth sectors

31:10 Nurturing ready trainees for when the role is eventually created

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Host: Tay Hong Yi (hytay@sph.com.sg)