Career Conversion Programme (CCP) – Wholesale Trade Professionals

1. Overview

The Career Conversion Programme (CCP) – Wholesale Trade Professionals aims to reskill Singaporeans with capabilities to excel in these career fields:

  • Trade Operations Executive
  • Procurement/ Sourcing Executive/ Manager
  • Trade Finance Manager
  • Carbon/ LNG/ Hydrogen Trader/ Analyst
  • Compliance Specialist
  • Supply Chain Professionals
  • Sustainability Analyst/ Manager
  • Sustainability Finance and Strategy Manager

This is a Workforce Singapore (WSG) programme and administered by Workforce Advancement Federation (WAF).

a. Benefits

This programme helps mid-career professionals as well as unemployed professionals make career switches into the wholesale trade sector in the areas of trade operations, facilitation and compliance.

The CCP – Wholesale Trade operates under the following modes:

  • Place-and-Train: Reskill mid-career individuals (new hires) for their new roles to support business growth.
  • Redeployment/ Job Redesign (JR) Reskilling: Targeted at companies that are undergoing business transformation, and where their existing workers are at risk of redundancy or in vulnerable jobs due to the transformation. These workers will be reskilled to take on new job roles or redesigned job roles that are of higher value-add within the same company.

b. Funding

The Wholesale Trade programme is supported under WSG’s Career Conversion Programme (CCP). Salary can be defrayed through this scheme. You may check with WAF for more details.

Funding is only applicable to Singapore Citizens and Permanent Residents.

c. Eligibility

For participating companies:

  • Registered or incorporated in Singapore
  • Must be able to offer employment directly related to the job which the CCP is for, with remuneration that commensurate with the market rate
  • Commit to the CCP training arrangements for the new hires and/or existing workers that they have selected
  • Be committed to work with WSG or its appointed partner on the necessary administrative matters related to the programme
  • For applications for redeployment/ Job Redesign (JR) Reskilling, companies are required to submit details of their business transformation plan for evaluation

Note: Meeting the above requirements does not guarantee enrolment onto the CCP, and it shall be at the discretion of the Workforce Advancement Federation (WAF) and Workforce Singapore (WSG).


2. How to apply?

For interested companies looking to apply for the CCP for Wholesale Trade Professionals as a participating employer, you can reach out to the Workforce Advancement Federation (WAF) by registering your interest here.

Workforce Advancement Federation (WAF)
Email: ccp.wtp@waf.org.sg
Contact: 6956 6288