As he pulls away from the curb to pick up his next passenger, Kenny waves. “Tell SkillsFuture thank you. They didn’t just give me a course. They gave me a steering wheel back.”
For Kenny, the PDVL course was more than a vocational licence. It was a psychological rescue.
Kenny used his (the $500 top-up provided by the government) to cover the entire cost of the $350 course fee. He didn’t pay a cent out of pocket. skillsfuture pdvl course
That is, until he discovered the at a community centre in Tampines.
According to a 2023 SkillsFuture Singapore report, over 600,000 Singaporeans have used their credits for training, with the Transport & Logistics sector seeing a 40% increase in enrollees over 45. As he pulls away from the curb to
The Second Shift: How a SkillsFuture Course Turned a Retrenched Executive into His Own Boss
He has also used the digital literacy skills from the course to track his earnings via an Excel dashboard he built himself. “My wife joked that I over-prepared. But last month, when the surge pricing algorithm glitched, I knew exactly which zones to move to. The course paid for itself in two days.” They gave me a steering wheel back
SINGAPORE – Six months ago, Kenny Lim, 52, was staring at a blank calendar for the first time in three decades. After 31 years in logistics management, a company-wide restructuring had left him with a retrenchment letter and a lingering question: What now?